Spa Treatment
My poor Shimmer 5! Look how stressed out and kinky she looks after being ripped out of Margot. It's only the best of everything for the yarn chez Keyboard Biologist, so I figured my Shimmer 5 needed a full spa treatment before moving on to Cerys.
What yarn can remain kinked up when a spa tub, lavender Eucalan, warm water and candle light are provided? I decided to opt for tub instead of sink treatment so that all the yarn could enjoy the same soothing experience at the same time.
I actually invited the last skein that I had from the lot to join in, even though it hadn't been put through the stress of becoming Margot. I wanted it to have the same treatment in the event that spa therapy created any subtle changes in the attitude of my Shimmer 5.
After a reasonable soak, my Shimmer 5 did loosen up and come back to its calm, relaxed, unkinky self. I think it looks quite happy soaking in all that wonderful warm water and Eucalan. Certainly it released a warm wooly smell into the air.
Finally, sauna treatment. After a bit of toweling off in a soft cotton towel the Shimmer 5 was subjected to a bit of gravity treatment (she's a bit of a heavy yarn, so I decided that no extra weights were needed to promote that final elongation of the spine). She'll also get a little bit of sauna action as the drying process proceeds. Once dry, she'll be ready for her next adventure: a sweater with full fashion shaping and a gravity resisting zipper, Cerys.
For anyone who might be interested in where my therapy preparation info came from, I'd like to recommend this page as well as the recommendations found in the big Vogue Knitting book, one of my constant and favorite knitting companions.
Your Shimmer gets better treatment than I get! Love the candles in the corner for extra effect!
Happy New Year
Wow, what a luxurious evening for luxurious yarn!
But Margot was so pretty!! Well - who among us hasn't frogged a seemingly perfectly good garment to reknit. Margot's beauty was in her yarn, anyway, and I look forward to seeing what her next life will be like. Good luck!
My yarn wants to be your yarn. *I* want to be your yarn.
What? No hot stone massage? No paraffin treatment? No Vitamin E infusion cocktails? This yarn may need more pampering!!
You sure are sweet to your yarn. Like Claudia said--can I be your yarn? Only thing missing was chocolate and red wine.
Chuckle. How could I have forgotten the hot stones? Maybe that will have to be part of Cerys' blocking experience. I was hoping the lavender Eucalin would be a good substitute for the paraffin treatment -- lanolin goodness, you know!
Chocolate and red wine... hmmm... not a bad idea, but I think I'd need to be knitting with a different colorway. Grin.
And all this talk of spa treatment for humans makes me want to go take a bath... but not until the Shimmer 5 is done drying... she's adding a bit of sheepy smell to my bathroom that I don't consider to be a true "spa" essence.
Chocolate and red wine... that does sound like a beautiful colorway in its own right, though. As for the spa treatments, Santa left no gift certificates for me this year *sob*.
thanks for the link!
I should be so lucky. A nice bath would be more than welcome right now!
Holy cow! I didn't realize that you could do that to undo the kinks. Thank you so much for posting about this.