Yes, I am now chopped liver

Normally, I keep my demonstration of ego under some modicum of control.  However.  Today, I was told that I was the yarn equivalent of Dishcloth Cotton.  WHAT?  I shouldn't even link you to that miserable quiz.  I saw it on someone else's blog this morning.  SHE was cashmere.  So I linked over, thinking that my yarn was going to be something exotic.  Quivuit, perhaps.  Unusual, luxurious, hedonistic - yes, that's me.  Instead, I get dishcloth cotton, annotated with
"You are a very hard worker, most at home when you're at home. You are thrifty and seemingly born to clean. You are considered to be a Plain Jane, but you are too practical to notice."  I suppose, given the choices, the bottom of the barrel would go to Novelty Eyelash yarn.  But then, it takes me only a few outraged blinks to back off and get a life.  Their algorithm clearly is flawed.  Quivuit wasn't even among the possible outcomes.

Knitting progress is measured in small increments.  I realized that since I have multiple new projects on multiples of needles, that I will not have any FOs soon.  I work a little bit here, a little bit there.  The end result has the appearance of no progress, even though I AM putting in the time.   Here is the husband swatch, which has been very difficult to catch on digital pix:

I'm ordering the yarn from my LYS, as the gauge is perfect.  Yeah, it's a DK sweater for a guy, but he really likes the pattern.  It's Rowan Wool Cotton (50% wool, 50% cotton) in a color called "Rich". 

The real WIP, my sweater, has also passed the big gauge swatch test.  That swatch is now being called a sleeve.  The color, texture, and sheen have been stripped from the picture, so you will have to imagine 50% silk, 50% merino, in Alchemy Synchronicity's color, Foggy Notion.  Purl has a decent picture of it on their website.

The alpaca scarf is showing real progress, the glovelets are crying piteous tears once again, as they are being ignored.  Some of the increases are too fussy, so I've been relaxing into the Marla sweater's big lazy garter ridge pattern.  That's a fancy synonym for stockinette with a bit of a tweak.  Maybe I am dishcloth cotton after all.

This post is one of the funniest blogposts I have read in weeks.  I got the link from Norma's sidebar.  My mother, for obscure reasons, loved bathroom humor.  I don't.  But this story had me laughing so hard in my surroundings, that the laptop almost hit the floor.  Go see what you think. 

Comments

[Lorette]

Oh man, I'm shetland wool. Harsh and revered. We should take consolation in the fact that we are not "acrylic". I love dooce. Her whole account of her months of pregnancy had me in tears, I was laughing so hard.

[Ingrid]

Haha I was dishcoth cotton, but then I cheated and changed Montana to Marthas vineyard and became Mohair...much better

[Margene]

What! That quiz just must be wrong. I'm the same as Lorette...why do we even take those quizes..why do we believe them! LOL
I'm taking my mantra back...it's the process...so you knitting looks great.