Ah, yarn.
I came away from today's yarny adventure with a newfound desire to knit. That's always a good thing. I made a silent promise to myself to NOT purchase any more sock yarn, and I remained strong, despite the proliferation of delicious-looking, on sale, and new-to-me yarn.
This is what came home with me instead:
From the top right, we have four balls of Encore DK (from The Yarnery), which is next to what it's destined to become - the Child's Garden Maze Cardigan. I ran into Jess, who had purchased this pattern, and I decided it was too crazy to resist. This pattern is definitely inches away from the fine line between "cool" and "ugly," though it could very well straddle it (imagine it in 1970s colors). The plan is to knit this for a friend of mine who is having her first little one (a girl) in September.
The pile of red and green is six skeins (that's 1650 yards) of Alchemy Yarns Haiku in "tea leaf," purchased for the grand total of $30. I tried to find a copy of Victorian Lace Today, as I think there's bound to be an appropriate pattern in there, but had no luck. If anyone wants to suggest a big, fantastic, complicated (or non-complicated but not boring) shawl pattern that will use up every bit of this, please do so!
Then we have the Sweet Baby Cardigan kit (oh! the shrug pattern on that page is cute!), purchased from Coldwater Collaborative (as was the Haiku). I'm swatching right now; the yarn's not blatantly soft, but is springy and pleasant to work with, even though size 7 needles feel huge to me right now. It's definitely worth it to buy the kit for this, as the colors of the handpainted yarn used are fantastic, but the full skeins cost almost $20 each.
Finally, two balls of Rowan Felted Tweed DK (also from The Yarnery), destined to become a February baby sweater for my little yarn snob.
It was nice running into some wonderful knitter people. I didn't spend as much time shopping, nor was I as social as I have been previous years. It's definitely different to not go with a group, maybe in a good way, since there is no peer pressure. Bellydweller kept me company, though, even if it was in the form of having my bladder socked every so often.
Tipper @ 5:16 PM * link
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