Fear not, dear blogreaders. I have broken the curse!
Today I took a trip to the Sheepy Yarn Shop, all the way up in White Bear Lake. It was my first trip; I was pleasantly surprised. They have a wide variety of yarn, a lot of which I hadn't met before, and the prices weren't over retail (as some yarn stores like to do). I didn't buy anything there, though I almost bought some Jaeger Chamonix in a pretty rose color at 50% off. "It would make a wonderful cabled scarf," I thought, but don't I already have stuff to make a "wonderful cabled scarf"? I do. They did, however, have a Jamieson Shetland Rose Trellis Shawl on display, and I fell en amour.
The Yarnery was still having its sale, so I went back. I ended up with this book:
And two skeins of Davidson Domy Heather yarn in burgundy to make the aforementioned shawl. I was going to buy the called-for 2-ply, but they didn't seem to have 8 skeins of anything I liked. I happened upon the yarn I'm using by accident - two skeins were laying out of place, and I picked them up. The color's fabulous, the yarn is softer than the shetland, and cost less than half the amount! I also bought five skeins of Lamb's Pride worsted for a project I will start on ASAP. And all of that was 20% off. Whoo!
AND... since right before this I went to the bookstore and sold two of my textbooks for eighty dollars, I think I made out well.
My fingers are itching to knit everything in sight. I lost one of my five bamboo DPNs that I was using for my Broadripple Socks, so I switched to using a magically looping circular; that second sock is ready for its heel. I'm a good way through my Charlotte's Web Shawl, and I'm eager to cast on for something else.
It's true. I'm addicted.
Tipper @ 4:32 PM * link
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