According to my Yarn Harlot desk calendar, today is the day I should maybe cull my stash.
I'm not.
Last night my mother and I went through hats, scarves and gloves ... a fair amount of the scarves knitted by me whilst in high school ... and donated a chunk of them to the local mission. So if you have an embarrassing excess of scarves in your house ... donate them to your local mission, thrift store, church. It's cold out there.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Saratoga Springs!
This past weekend I was kidnapped by my very own Time Lord, and brought to Saratoga Springs.
Gas is 4.10 a gallon (which is cheap. Where I am it's rumored we'll hit 5.00 a gallon by July 4th).
Saratoga Tavern which we drove past...
And what I got at Saratoga Needle Arts
The Time Lord and I were en route to the Comicon, and randomly passed by a woman knitting a sock in the sunshine. Then we realized she was in front of the yarn store.
I got one skein of Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash Paints. 100% superwash wool, color 9859 (pink multicolor with orange and yellow and maybe purple).
Beautiful, soft, and the store is amazing. It looks tiny from the street, but man, it's clean, orderly, and so much space inside (much like a TARDIS for any other Doctor Who fans out there). This detour to the Comicon is a true testament to the awesomeness of the Time Lord as he happily amused himself by looking at all the yarn while I had a slight fit of "There's so much yarn that I want to take home with meeee!"
So I am now a member of the frequent buyer program ... and I will be up in Saratoga next weekend...
Gas is 4.10 a gallon (which is cheap. Where I am it's rumored we'll hit 5.00 a gallon by July 4th).
Saratoga Tavern which we drove past...And what I got at Saratoga Needle Arts
The Time Lord and I were en route to the Comicon, and randomly passed by a woman knitting a sock in the sunshine. Then we realized she was in front of the yarn store.
I got one skein of Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash Paints. 100% superwash wool, color 9859 (pink multicolor with orange and yellow and maybe purple).
Beautiful, soft, and the store is amazing. It looks tiny from the street, but man, it's clean, orderly, and so much space inside (much like a TARDIS for any other Doctor Who fans out there). This detour to the Comicon is a true testament to the awesomeness of the Time Lord as he happily amused himself by looking at all the yarn while I had a slight fit of "There's so much yarn that I want to take home with meeee!"
So I am now a member of the frequent buyer program ... and I will be up in Saratoga next weekend...
Monday, March 10, 2008
Besotted
Another upcoming project is for my friend Liss, who was my first roommate years ago when we were doing a musical theatre internship. Her birthday was a few days ago, and I promised to knit her the Besotted Scarf. I need to go through my stash to find just the right shade of pink ... and if I don't have enough of it, to Michael's I shall go and stock up on 2 skeins of Lion Brand Wool-Ease (what I used for the Irish Hiking Scarf).
I still need to go to the store and pet the yarn I may be using for my fellow librarian's DNA scarf ... if I don't deem it soft enough, I may have to drive some yarn store owners crazy in my quest to find the perfect yarns.
I also realized that his request for two different colors means I'll finally be tackling colorwork in a cabled design. This should be an interesting learning experience.
I still need to go to the store and pet the yarn I may be using for my fellow librarian's DNA scarf ... if I don't deem it soft enough, I may have to drive some yarn store owners crazy in my quest to find the perfect yarns.
I also realized that his request for two different colors means I'll finally be tackling colorwork in a cabled design. This should be an interesting learning experience.
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