So I have a question to put out there. Is my dryer mourning its mate and refusing to play nice with that hussy Whirlpool? Do I need to replace the thing? My dryer has never been a really hot one, and it has a brand new hose, so that’s not it. This blouse was not caught in the door, and it’s definitely not the first one, just the most agonizing to me. It’s just the no-iron cotton shirts that do this: they come out of the dryer with little burn spots. This was very dark, and the picture here is after much scrubbing of the scorched collar. Is it the coating they put on those shirts? Would another dryer just do the same thing? Has anybody else had this?
Some of the no-iron cotton shirts are terrible–they cling like clumped-up plastic wrap. This one had it exactly right: it was a cotton shirt, by golly, the fabric relaxed and smooth as if it had been pre-ironed for me, but first and foremost for this natural-fibers fanatic, it was emphatically cotton.
So I showed that dryer who’s boss. I spent yesterday afternoon working out a new lace pattern, grabbed my Potomac colorway Geisha that Tina dyed for me, and cast on to knit the C&O Canal and the towpath alongside it in the fall back home where she and I grew up. Dancing in the leaves and seeing them flurry up from our feet. Storebought can be replaced. Our time and our knitting can never be. Onward.
(Note: I will be at Green Planet Yarn in Campbell tomorrow night at 6:30 for a booksigning. Not sure what I’ll wear, but we’ll have fun. See you there!)