Troubling Knitting Dreams


My weekend was nearly the same as most of my weekends except I had a bad dream on Saturday night that I thought I'd share with you.

I was in a favorite yarn shop that was located in a big drafty barn (that doesn't exist in real life).  Yarn was displayed everywhere in many rooms.  I was looking and looking for lace weight yarn and all I found was bulky or worsted weight.  I was sure they carried lace weight and I had my heart set on purchasing some.  I asked an attendant who looked suspiciously at me and avoided answering my question pointing me to some sport weight wool.  So I asked another clerk and another clerk.  Finally the last sales clerk instructed me to ask the manager who was hiding in a room knitting with bulky yarn.

Here's where the scary part happens.  I asked the manager where the lace weight yarn was displayed and she stated firmly "If I have my way, we will never ever carry lace weight yarn".  Oh my, my knitting heart was broken to pieces....So I left in tears.

It gets scarier my friends!  I walked around and around the big barn trying to locate my red van (I don't drive a red van) which I never found.  Dusk falls, half human and half animal people start emerging on the street and the country setting turns into a shady city area.

And then I woke up! I have no idea why I was dreaming about a lace weight yarn absence but the half human/animals I will blame on one too many Dr. Who episodes ;)

What would be your knitting nightmare?

Comments

  1. AnkeNovember 11, 2013 at 8:17 AM

    My knitting nightmare would be running out of yarn. ;-)

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  2. DiannaNovember 11, 2013 at 8:41 AM

    I'm sorry about your bad dream, Karen. Isn't it crazy how sometimes we have these dreams that have no meaning whatsoever? I crochet rather than knit, but my worst nightmare would be walking into a store and finding that yarn is no longer available anywhere! And there wouldn't be any more made...EVER!

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  3. margeneNovember 11, 2013 at 8:45 AM

    Thank goodness I do not have nightmares. A world without lace weight is bad enough, but with half human-half animal people out to get us, too, that's a real nightmare!

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  4. stephNovember 11, 2013 at 8:57 AM

    you know you knit too much.......when you have knitting nightmares!! (right?)

    My (most recent!!!) knitting nightmare was a HUGE tangled mess of yarn...and I was right in the middle of it. I think I spent the entire night untangling this yarn (in my dreams) sigh. (It still wasn't fixed when I finally woke up....worried it was going to be a ....to be continued...dream!)

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  5. Tracey ~ CloverNovember 11, 2013 at 8:57 AM

    Oh Karen, I'm so sorry about your bad dream. Do you have a nice stash of lace weight yarn to bring you comfort? Not having any yarn would be a nightmare for me.

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  6. the habit of beingNovember 11, 2013 at 9:55 AM

    That would be terrible! Luckily I have a nice tote full of lace weight yarn just in case there is such a crisis ;-)

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  7. DonnaNovember 11, 2013 at 10:13 AM

    Oh my gosh - I had one last night! I have been looking for a new leather knitting bag in real life. So in my dream I found a bunch of bags that I had in the back of my closet. I was trying them out to see if they would work and was putting my supplies and yarn in each one - and all my stuff was disappearing! So that's mine - my stash leaving me.

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  8. AndeeNovember 11, 2013 at 11:18 AM

    I so love that you shared your dream. In our farm store night now we are down to all chucky and no fingerling. It is a terrible thing for me.

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  9. UnknownNovember 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM

    Terrifying! But a yarn shop in a barn sounds amazing! My knitting nightmare would be that someone gives me a lifetime supply of the most beautiful yarns I've ever seen, all hopelessly, miserably tangled!

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  10. spriteNovember 11, 2013 at 12:22 PM

    Eek!

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  11. SueNovember 11, 2013 at 3:03 PM

    A barn full of bulky weight yarn, a missing red van, animal-human hybrids emerging on the street. Gosh, I hope it wasn't a prophetic dream, because it sounds like the end of the world--the knitting zombie apocalypse!

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  12. AnonymousNovember 11, 2013 at 7:04 PM

    I'm sorry but this is hilarious! This could be the start of a film script.

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  13. Kim November 11, 2013 at 9:11 PM

    Okay you had me at barn and yarn...what a combination :) The rest, let's just pretend you didn't dream it.

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  14. JacquiNovember 12, 2013 at 8:57 AM

    It sounds very Alice through the Looking Glass - lol. Much more fun to remember than to experience I guess. Xxx

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  15. eidolonsNovember 12, 2013 at 10:25 AM

    Haha! I love crazy after-Doctor-Who dreams. (:

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  16. flyingjenNovember 12, 2013 at 11:31 AM

    I'm sure not finding lace weight yarn would be like a nightmare for you! If all you had to knit with was bulky? Oh. No. The horror of it all! Whereas the opposite would be true for me!

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  17. Mama Gone GreenNovember 12, 2013 at 4:02 PM

    That is funny, although I am sure it was scary in your dreams! Last night I had a nightmare that I lost Phoebe!! It has nothing to do with knitting, but it freaked me out. And the dog ate my knitting needle last night. For real, not in a dream. It was sort of a nightmare, as I made an evening run to a very crowded craft store!

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  18. Judy S.November 13, 2013 at 8:00 PM

    Hmm. Haven t had any yarn dreams yet, and the "can't remember the locker combination/not prepared for the exam" dreams have been replaced by "can't find the choir music" ones. Weird, huh?

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  19. Project TaraNovember 13, 2013 at 9:10 PM

    Whoa! Did you eat something spicy before you went to bed? ;-)
    I think my knitting nightmare would be knitting from a chart. I look at them and nearly get a migraine, so I stick with written patterns.

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