Yarnery Family Singers

Thanks for your patience. I have finally resolved the technical difficulties ('ripping' video from dvd, learning how to edit video, making video compatible for YouTube, internet problems, etc) and now have the full video (including Oh Canada) on YouTube. So.......without further ado, I present to you the Yarnery Family Singers; Angie, Jess, Eric and Scott



And the lyrics:

The Harlot

How do you host a knitter like The Harlot?
How does she keep on knitting all those socks?
What is there left to say about The Harlot?
“She’s terribly clever.” “She’s witty and funny.” “She rocks!”

Many a heel you’d like to turn just like her,
Many a toe-up sock without a tear.
But how do you make her stay to write all the words she’d say?
- Pack her up to the cabin with some beer!

Oh, how do you host a knitter like The Harlot?
How can we get her to come back next year?

bridge:
When she’s with us we’re bemused, often laughing and amused,
While she’s telling us about her latest book:

“When your Hoodie seems a wreck, reinforce the sweater’s neck
Not with knitting needles, but a crochet hook.”

She’ll out-Kitchner anyone, make the grafting seem like fun;
She can work the toe in twenty seconds flat.

When the Harlot comes to town, people come from miles around.
And The Yarn’ry is the yarn shop where she’s at!


Our Favorite Things

Argyle and Fair Isle and felting your stitches,
Swap meets and blog greets and loud stitch-and-bitches,
Intricate lace made with needles and strings –
These are a few of our favorite things.

“Jaywalker”, “Vintage”, and Cookie A’s “Monkey”:
All sorts of knitted socks, plain or quite funky,
Shawls like the “Icarus”, giving us wings –
These are a few of our favorite things.

Cream-colored Arans and warm Malabrigo,
Hunting down yarn shops to visit where we go,
Sweaters we knit that turn men into kings –
These are a few of our favorite things.

refrain:
When the yarn splits, when the stitch drops,
When we’re out of wine,
We simply remember our favorite things –
And then all the world seems fine!

Ebony needles, so polished and pretty,
Della Q project bags featured on Knitty,
Lovely stitch markers with gems on their rings,
These are a few of our favorite things...

Patterns and books, not to mention new yarn stash.
You can use MasterCard, Visa, checks, or cash.
Spring inventory – what bargains it brings! –
These are a few of our favorite things.

(repeat refrain)


Stephanie

Stephanie, Stephanie, all your fans sit before you.
Talent reigns in your veins; may it ever continue.

Knitter of socks, we shall read your blog and your books forever.
Stephanie, Stephanie, hail your DPN’s ever!


© 2008 Angela Paulson. All rights reserved.
Please do not photocopy, electronically post,
or redistribute lyrics without prior written permission from the author