Happy birthday to me...a day early! |
Last night, I went to Fibre Space, my wonderful local yarn
shop, for some birthday yarn shopping. I have been planning this trip for the entire month. Since I was getting
my birthday discount, I decided that I wanted to at least get one yarn in
sweater quantity. I’ve also been seeing quite a few patterns in DK but I have very little in my stash. So I set
off to get my birthday yarn, because birthday yarn so doesn’t count!
This should have been a simple trip but two things tripped
me up. First was taking my husband. I love my honey, don’t get me wrong, but
letting us both loose in a yarn shop ends badly. I brought him along for moral
support, but he starts shopping (and he has great taste). The second problem
was I ended up picking all sale yarn, so my birthday discount was useless.
Sweet Georgia in Riptide |
My sweater quantity purchase was some just arrived Sweet
Georgia Yarn in their Riptide colorway. Lovely. I plan to (plan being the
operative word) to make Francis Revisited by Beth Silverstein, but this yarn
will work for Ashby by Leila Raabe, too. I've been crushing on Ashby for a long time. I also bought enough Shepherd’s Wool
DK (Plum colorway) to make a Mara shawl.
Shepherd's Wool in Plum |
Good stuff, but all on sale and I needed to use my birthday
discount. So my husband and I went through the store again. On the second
go-round, I grabbed some Space Cadet Creations Stella in their Pride colorway.
I have no idea what to make with it. My husband is steadily becoming a big Miss
Babs fan. He bought Whatta Skein in Royalty colorway.
Space Cadet in Pride |
I am pleased with my birthday shopping even if it turned out
to be longer and more stressful than I anticipated. Now let’s see if I can work
through my stash and have this knitted up before my next birthday.
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