Anyone want to help me play yarn detective? I...picked up a couple more balls from the box upstairs (it's been there for days, apparently, so people have Had A Chance) but they have no labels.

Ok, mystery yarn A has clearly been knitted before, and this is several balls of it. Between about 12 and 16 WPI, single ply, but fairly tightly spun. Burns like it's a wool/acrylic blend; self-extinguishes quickly. Colors are very short—often only ~1"
Mystery yarn B is 20 wpi on the nose, is mostly wool, three-ply, very round. Reminds me of Happy Feet DK but has way more of a sheen than I remember HF having.
Mystery yarn C, 14 wpi. I was sure that it was going to be a weird soft acrylic, but the burn test makes me think it's another acrylic/wool blend. The color's a gradient and each shift lasts about 6". I don't even know where to start with this one.
It's worth noting that in A, the colors are very distinct—there's nowhere that the colors were blended in the spinning. (There are lots of single plies that are almost right, but were clearly dyed before spinning, and this was not, imo.)
UPDATE: @linneaharts has called A for Silk Blend by Manos Del Uruguay, and it's a dead match for the wildflower colorway, so that one is SOLVED, hooray!
UPDATE 2: @bibliogrrl called B for Malabrigo, and after poking Ravelry, I think she's right, and it's their sock yarn in Marte, which seems to have *wildly* varying dyelots. But what I have looks a lot like this
https://t.co/QOv6hUr2wE and this https://t.co/UgAW3OBESj
Pals, this is like two days of back-to-back enrichment, this is all going SO GOOD! (Shh, deadlines, shh, it's going so good.)

I'm still full-on baffled by yarn C, but realistically, it's going to make ugly-ass socks for my gremlin child, so I care somewhat less about that one.
Also, hey, if anyone wants to peer pressure me into using Ravelry more, that would be, like. Ok. If you wanted to. https://t.co/junQ9rAYFG

More from For later read

Part of what is going on here is that large sectors of evangelicalism are poorly equipped to help people deal with basic struggles, let alone the ubiquitous pornography addictions that most of their men have been enslaved to for years.


On the one hand, there's a high standard of holiness. On the other hand, there's a model of growth that is basically "Try Harder to Mean it More." Identify the relevant scriptural truth & believe it with all of your sincerity so that you may access the Holy Spirit's help to obey.

Helping sincere believers believe and obey the Bible facts is pretty much all the Holy Spirit does these days, other than convict us of our sins in light of the Bible facts.

If you know you are sincere and hate your sin and believe the right Bible facts as hard as you can but continue to be enslaved to your pornography addiction, what else left for you to do? Just Really, Just Really, Just Really Trust God and Give it to Him?

To suggest that there are other strategies available sounds to those formed in this model of growth like one is also suggesting that the Bible is insufficient, but it also suggests something just as threatening- that there are aspects of reality that are not immediately apparent.

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