Pub Mix yarn storage container

Have you ever eaten this stuff?  (**Don’t** if you’re allergic to MSG.)  It’s probably one of the most potentially addicting snack foods EVER.  Some friends of ours treated us to a containerful.  They got it at Costco and shared with us.  It’s got pretzels, cheezy things, crunchy melba toast pieces that taste like really yummy croutons, and these little sesame seed sweet things among other flavors.  Your mouth just doesn’t know what to do with all that great snacky goodness.  So, yeah – not a good idea to keep around the house if you’re not real big on the self control and you’re trying to limit salt and carbs.  However, it was a great little treat – or actually kind of a big treat, because these containers are big.  They’re about the size of a yarn cake in diameter – so of course my brain started devising a plot for the empty container.  Suffice it to say, I didn’t have to wait for a great deal of time to try out my idea.  It was empty soon enough.  The lables are stuck on there good though, so I soaked it and soaked it and soaked it – and still it refused to just slide off.  So, I ended up getting out the “Goo Gone” and that sticky label was history in no time.  So, now with a nice clean snack-free container, I drilled a hole in the top with a 1/4-inch spade bit, and voila! yarn storage/dispenser.  I’m not using it to deliver yarn to a project yet (I want to file the hole a little smoother first so it doesn’t abrade my yarn that I pull thru that hole), but it is a nice size to keep the little rounds of KnitPicks andean silk that I’m using for my February Lady Sweater attempt.

The jury is still out (so to speak) on whether this attempt at the Lady Sweater will survive as a project to the finish line.  I can’t decide if I’m knitting the right size or not.  It seems like it’s the right dimensions, but I’ve just started the gull lace part, so it remains to be seen how it blossoms after this section.  If it looks like a keeper, I’ll be putting up progress pics eventually.