The Cursed Project

Pattern: Roll for Skulls by Wyvern Knits - Size: B - Yarn: Loops & Threads Capri Tencel in Slate and Teal - Needles: US 2(ribbing) and US 3(body)

  I had an interesting experience with this yarn.  It's my first time using it and when I looked up reviews, most people only had complaints about it splitting.  I was taking it out because I was getting gauge when just knitting, but when I started doing the colorwork, my stitches tightened up.  At one point I was winding it back up after taking it out and I noticed a bit where it looked like the yarn was wrapped on itself.  It also looked like a few of the plies were longer than the rest.  I was scared that I was going to have to cut it.  After looking at it I figured out that I had somehow managed to split the yarn and either the skein or the knitting had been passed through the split.  I gently loosened the top plies enough to get the skein through and everything smoothed out nicely.

  It also felt odd when I was wet blocking it.  I thought it became pliable feeling, like a clay.  My mom thought it felt like paper mache.  It went back to feeling nice and smooth when it was dry.

  I worked the pattern rolling for each section and midway through each chart as well:

Top twisted 1x1 ribbing

        Right Latvian braid

    3B - 3B - 2A - 6C - 5C - 1A

    2A - 1A - 4B - 2A - 4B - 2A 

    4B - 3B - 5C - 6C - 1A - 4B

    6C - 3B - 1A - 4B - 2A - 3B

    6C - 5C - 2A - 4B - 2A - 4B

    3B - 2A - 5C - 6C - 2A - 4B

        Left Latvian Braid

Bottom twisted 1x1 ribbing

  I also had an interesting experience at the dentist the last time I went.  They told me I was going to be in room 3.  I saw a lot of things that looked like the two-part epoxy but in different colors on the counter.  The person who showed me where to go asked me if I had any pain.  I told her that I didn't, and she looked at me with a really confused expression and asked if I was sure.  She then double checked my name and I hear Diane say that I was there for her from the next room over.  The guy who was supposed to be in that room was seated soon after I got into room 4.  While I was getting my x-rays done, I heard someone ask the guy in the other room if he had eaten anything particularly hard recently or not.  One of the people then tried to come over to us and steal the x-ray machine after my first one.  The second we were done she came back to get it.  While I was getting my cleaning done I heard various snippets from the other room.  She tapped on his teeth and asked which ones hurt.  At one point she was giving reasons why he might have this steady tooth ache for five days, but have the teeth all look okay.  She also mentioned that they might be able to just make a hole to get to the root of the tooth to fix the problem.  She also suggested that the pain from biting down might be caused by a break in the tooth below the gum-line.  She said that everything was too irritated to do a cleaning that day, even though it's been a while since he last got one done.  She was going to get him a few referrals for various specialists that would help them figure out what was wrong with his teeth.  Once she was done with him and was free to see me to double check Diane's work, I asked her what was going on next door since I had been sat there.  She laughed when I her about how I was asked if I was in pain and she said that they must have thought that I was her emergency patient who thought he might need to have four teeth pulled.  Luckily I had nothing that exciting done.