(... no big surprise to anyone who knows me.)

I've completed another One Skein Wonder for the jeweler-belly button ring maker-friend-who-is-pregnant in ... hold your breath ... Noro Kochoran, which possibly means Yarn of the Gods in Japanese.  (Versus Kureyon, which is the Japanese pronunciation for crayon.)  No FO Report, because I'm on the heels of another one in another colorway of Noro Kochoran.  I figured I might as well FO them at the same time.

(The knitting pals who were at my house last week are reading this and saying, "But you should really sell it, like you said you needed to, Jenifer."  My response: "Noro addicts like myself don't always understand reason."  But I promise that I'll sell some soon and let you all know about it in case you want in on the action.)

Can I share, however, that Noro Kochoran is the perfect skein for the One Skein Wonder ... plenty of yardage ... not too expensive ... did I mention Yarn of the Gods?

Back to my indecisiveness. 

I can't decide on a new blog name, and this is the week to do it.  Do you want to help me?  Here are the choices:

#1:
J is for Junkie
(yarn junkie, that is.)

This was mostly my idea, though someone's comment pointed me in this direction.  I just like it ... it has a cute name, my initial (of course), it accurately describes my yarn junkieness... and it sort of reminds me of "Bond, James Bond," for some reason.  For the banner, I think that I'd either knit up a little banner of J's or something like that, or some other "J" inspired knitted something.  Maybe spell out J and Junkie with yarn.  This idea definitely lends itself to a button, as well.

#2:
alpaca skein and wool knit

This was the Big Sweetie's contribution. Isn't he so clever??  I love it because he contributed it, and because it's so darn clever.  Really, much more clever than my ideas (reference idea #1).  I can't really think of an adequate subtitle here.  For the banner, I'd maybe show me, or a silhouette of me, tiptoeing across with a suitcase.  I don't know why, but that just cracks me up, and it sort of reminds me of carrying enormous bags of stuff to knitting friends' homes to knit.  A button?  Maybe not as easy to make ... I guess my nickname would become "alpaca skein", which is odd but also okay. 

#3:
Zen and the Art of Stash Maintenance

This was the Big Sweetie's contribution as well.  Again, isn't he so clever? I'm not sure if I'd say "Stash" or "Yarn Stash".  However, I love it because it really accurately describes the state of my stash in my house ... I'm always moving it from here to there, always trying to whittle it down, always figuring out where to put it next.  Leave it all out, or hide it away?  Use it all up, or buy more? (The latter generally wins out here.)  Plus, I love the Zen reference here.  And of course the take-off of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is great.  I can't think of an adequate subtitle here, unless I did another take-off on "An Inquiry into Values," (the original subtitle) for something like "An Inquiry into Addictions/yarn sales/ the mind of a knitter." Any ideas there?  The Banner?  Not so sure either.  All that I can think of is the very uncreative idea of a big pile of yarn, or yarn in a basket ... Hmmm.  And then for a button ... who would I become, Ms. Zen?   But I do love the title.

#4
The Adventures of a Knitter Errant
(En un lugar en la manga...)

This is an honorary mention, as I've already decided that it's too obscure, too masculine, too specific for me, but it's a great idea and it deserves its few lines of print here.  This is obviously a take-off on Don Quijote, the knight errant of La Mancha, who zanily goes around completely obsessed with his own reality and subjecting others' reality to his own.    Most people familiar with Spanish know that the first line of the Quijote is "En un lugar en la Mancha ..." or "In a place in the Mancha ..." .  Urraca suggested the substitutuion of "la manga", and I think it's brilliant, as "la manga" means sleeve in Spanish.  Just brilliant.  One could feasibly edit the famous drawing by Picasso of Don Quijote and put in a few knitting needles, possibly a sweater, and a trailing ball of yarn.  Just an idea if anyone wants to steal it. 


So, that's that.  Any ideas?  Let's see if I can make a poll work here:





Thanks!