Phone rings.
Me: “Hello?”
Hubby: “You have knit night at the LYS tonight, right?”
Me: “Yes, why?”
Hubby:”Do you think they would have olive green yarn?”
Me (thinking): He does know I am going to a yarn STORE, right?
Me (outloud): “The chances are pretty good.”
Hubby: “While you are there can you buy one skein for me? I think it will make a good fly for when I go fishing next month and you don’t have any in your stash that I like.”
Me: “. . .”
I was speechless for a moment. I chose to ignore that he wanted yarn to throw in a river. Instead, I skipped right to waffling between congratulating him on the proper use of the words stash and skein in a sentence or telling him I was going to padlock my yarn room.
If it keeps him away from my stash, I can sacrifice a ball of wool to the fishing gods.
14 responses so far ↓
Brenda // Mar 6, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Nice looking flies! If I were a fish, I’d bite.
You should congratulate your husband on correct knitting terminology. Mine is so happy when he can throw a knitting word into a sentence.
Jo // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:09 pm
That’s a sweet story - and at least he asked for a ball of his own!
2paw // Mar 7, 2007 at 12:03 am
Oh you’ve turned him to The Dark Side. Well done Luke!!!!
Troutbum64 // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:08 am
I have NOT turned to the dark side, I just thought it was finacially more practical to buy a skein instead of the small cards of yarn for $2 at the fly shops. I think the flies look pretty good also, and hopefully the fish will bite.
KellyD // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:25 am
Well I think the flies rock! I’m usually approached by male friends for my hemostats for equipment for this. And I admire the economics your husband has. PLUS and most important of all, he didnt go digging in your stash w/o your knowing about it. Pretty great guy in my book!
Romelda // Mar 7, 2007 at 11:19 am
oooooh (sound of envy) and green is my favorite color. The second socks are on the needles, but I still have to do the toe for the firsts. Hope fully my cold will be over soon and I can wrap my head around that. I did some flyfishing eons ago, his is beautiful!
lynne s of Oz // Mar 7, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Pretty flies! Good yarn match too. Glad they aren’t yellow though!
MARTINA // Mar 8, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Designer flies! Cool! Lucky fish!…Or unlucky. It depends on your point of view!
KnittyOtter // Mar 8, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Let’s hope he stays away from your stash yarn. *L*
Great story. :D
DeeAnn // Mar 9, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I’m just wondering what would have happened if you had a ball of olive green say, cashmere in your stash ;-)
Beautiful flies, very talented hubby too!
Arleta // Mar 10, 2007 at 8:07 am
My thoughts were right alongside DeeAnn’s. LOL
Fisherman! ;)
marti // Mar 14, 2007 at 9:20 am
i am chuckling on this one, are those the flys he made with it? they look lovely with the yarn. thanks for the comments on the new addy’s i need to go find some now.
Sheila // Mar 16, 2007 at 5:10 am
Great flies! I also do surface embroidery and it is amazing some of the good stuff you can find at Fly fishing stores.
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