Unicorn Hair

     Today I went to the yarn store and, as usual, wanted to buy everything. I don't know what comes over me in there. Something about being surrounded by so much of what I love makes me a little high. It always starts with store's picks all lined up in the front of the store, which lead me straight into the worsted weight section, then to the fingering weight yarns. By time I've made it to the "fun" fibers, I've gotten so loopy off of everything else that I even considered buying eyelash yarn.

     For those of you who don't knit, eyelash yarn is that fuzzy stuff that usually comes in weird colors. You've seen it, and you've probably wanted a scarf made out of it. It feels great, and back when I was a young, naive knitter I made the mistake of trying to make myself a scarf out of it. It's the worst fiber available to man. It tangles in on itself, you can't see your stitches well enough to work with ease, and cats tear what little work you have managed to get through apart in even less time than a normal project.

     But today, while under the influence of way too much fiber in too little time, I seriously contemplated buying a small skein of pink, blue, and purple eyelash yarn. I looked at Logan, who's my voice of reason when I go to the yarn store, and told him I wanted it because it reminded me of unicorn hair. 

     Yes. Unicorn hair. I obviously wasn't thinking straight.

     Logan looked back at me and didn't say a word. Instead, he just tilted his head a little and raised an eyebrow, his silent way of telling me that I'm being a little insane. Logan doesn't break this look out often, so it snapped me out of my blissed-out state. He never gives me that look in the yarn store, because even though he may think spending money on yarn instead of games is crazy, he knows I love it, and he respects that choice.
     But today I got the look, and I was so grateful that he threw it at me. It saved me from the abomination I held in my hand, and got me to buy a lovely sock yarn from Cascade Yarns instead. I plan on making these socks for Logan after I finish up the wedding shawl: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/whippersnapper
     It'll be a while before that happens, but I like to have my next project in mind while I finish whatever I'm working on for some reason. That, and I just needed to buy some yarn because I'm down to just three balls in my stash, and that's just wrong. The green he picked will be lovely to just look at for a while before I get started on the socks themselves.