Aftermath
Yesterday was Yarnover. I had good company: Jess, Jess, Mona (who joined us for breakfast; do you have a blog, lady?), and Becky (who should have a knitting blog, darnit). I didn't meet Annie Modesitt like I wanted to, but I did not want to seem stalkerish.
But enough about that. Y'all want to see what I bought.
From top:
Dancing Feet in Forest Floor from Joslyn's Fiber Farm - 600 yards of fingering weight wool (Oh my gosh - this booth had tables full of some of the most gorgeous handpainted yarn I've seen. There were huge hanks of laceweight that I had to pry out of my fingers, a glorious silk/wool blend, delicious sock yarn (a composition similar to Schaefer Yarn's Anne, but less fuzzy), worsted weight, etc. and HUGE hanks of solid-colored Zephyr-like laceweight. The prices were awesome, too. This set me back $16 and I'm going to get some sort of shawl out of it, maybe a Flower Basket Shawl?)
Handpainted sportweight superwash wool from 2 Dye 4 (email: kristinknits @ mchsi . com) in Lakeshore (This chick has seriously good color sense. I love this color combination; blue is my new green. She custom dyes, too!)
A closeup of handpainted goodness:
2 skeins of Louet sportweight linen, destined to be face cloths. I feel like an idiot because I thought they were $7 each, but that was for the 50g skeins. Still, $23 for two skeins of linen is not bad, considering others at the same show had them for $17 each.
1 - 45g skein of Allhemp3 sportweight in Deep Sea, which shall become this necklace.
Plus, four balls of Rowan Yorkshire Tweed 4-ply to make these lace knee highs (and, darn, I think I'm using that same color!). I've already started:
The hemp/Interweave Crochet, and knee-high yarn were purchased at the Yarnery. I love their inventory reduction sale, especially when they end up putting yarn I've wanted for ages (the Rowan) on clearance, so I got it for 40% off.
It's time to start the Shepherd's Harvest countdown! I should aim to finish something by then. (Like, say, Forecast? It sure would've came in handy this very cold weekend, though my Viennese Lace Shrug did the trick and got lots of compliments to boot!)
Tipper @ 2:57 PM * link
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