Category: yarn

  • do not use

    To be post-it-ed onto my credit card. And debit card, for that matter.

    Upon returning home from the first day of classes, a $180 purchase of a new ibook battery (badly needed) and a relaxing afternoon, I found these two rather large boxes. Okay, the top one isn’t very large, but the bottom one IS.

    It was BAD – I couldn’t remember what I had ordered. I must be getting fibre-blind from all the buying. Oy.

    Oh yeah – Knitpicks stuff.

    I ordered the Palette Sampler (it’s all Adrian’s fault):

    and some Color Your Own (the fingering weight merino), a couple balls of solid sock yarn and a whole whack of colour cards.

    I also found out that this massive amount (27 pounds!) of merino roving I ordered from R.H. Lindsay wool had shipped on September 8 – I had to email to get an update, and I got a one-sentence reply. I’d ordered on August 8. I must say, this hasn’t been a very pleasureable transaction. I’ll be happy when I get my wool, but I won’t want to order from them again, I don’t think.

    And no, it’s not all for me! I’m splitting it with a few people.

    Off to finish something cotton, seeing as how it’s been so dang hot here the last couple days.

  • duuuuuuude.

    The Waterloo County Knitter’s Fair.

    Crazy – even busier than last year, and the vendors were sure crowded in! I had a couple of readers come up to me (which was also crazy! since when do people come up to me!) while I myself was too shy to say hi to brainy alison.

    Without further ado, the booty.

    From Shelridge Farms, 5 skeins of worsted wool and 2 skeins of sock yarn.

    This picture shows the colour of the worsted weight (Soft Touch W4) way better.

    From Wellington Fibres, a bag of roving. A SUPER deal at $22 for 250 g – it’s 50% mohair, 50% polwarth leicester cross.

    From Four Seasons Knitting…koigu! I bought six skeins, but she only had 4 with her – so she’s mailing me the other two!

    Last but not least…RedBirdKnits. My first stop of the day, my most expensive. Woo!

    4 skeins red Silky Wool, 4 skeins grey Silky Tweed.

    Lorna’s Laces Wool Top, in “Watercolor” (I wonder if I’ll get sick of this colourway? my go with the flow socks are in this colourway too).

    And MISSING IN ACTION! 100 g of CORMO ROVING! Noooooooooo! I’m thinking it fell out of the bag while it was being stored under a table at the lettuce knit booth, and that megan (either one) picked it up for me. Otherwise I’m going to hope that Robyn might be able to help me out! (Pretty please?)

    Well, that’s all folks. I’m tired, time to go spin!

  • stuff

    Not feeling particularly creative right now, but here’s the lowdown on recent happenings…

    The Snap Cardi – almost done, just need to do the collar and some sewing. Problem – I don’t know if I’ll have enough yarn. Living on the edge, that.

    I’ve finally returned to the go with the flow socks, which are coming along quite nicely now.

    And….I’ve gotten back to this:

    Pile o’ Cozy, from knitty. It went away from many months – the entire summer, really – and now it’s time to be finished. I had to frog a few rows, a couple of times while getting back into it, but it’s all good now.