Since Bruce has broken his New Year’s Resolution about publishing on time, it leaves this space open for me to to talk yarn!
Yes, I’ve gone a bit bonkers. In the past week I’ve been in five different yarn shops – four in Asheville, NC and one here in Indy that was having a year-end sale! This doesn’t include the couple of things I recently ordered online and the things I got at the Stitches & Scones Sock Retreat in December.
The reason I was in so many yarn shops in Asheville was I discovered a brochure in our hotel lobby for the Fabric Fiber Bead Trail – uh oh! Actually it’s a wonderful reference and introduced me to a couple of new places I wouldn’t have seen otherwise. It’s sitting right here on my desk and will get put away for our next trip to the area!
Spent some time yesterday photographing and organizing all of this new stash and figuring out what I’ll be making in 2011 so I thought I’d share.
Of course there are socks. I finally finished Bruce’s ‘Back to School’ socks over the holidays and am getting ready to cast on the next pair. You can almost see the yarn on the left side in the photo it’s stripey in nice, muted browns. I’m also doing a pair for myself in the red and white sparkly yarn at the back – figure they can do dual duty for Christmas and Valentine’s Day!
Cowls are a hot fashion trend this season so I’m doing one out of the sky blue I got (on sale) at Yarn Paradise in Asheville and another out of a really chunky variegated black/grey yarn by Tahki. Those two should go with about everything.
I’m also going to finally do a pair of Bella’s mittens for myself (you Twilight fans should get the reference) I’m debating between the lime green and the charcoal – we’ll see what happens.
The list goes on, but I’ll leave it there for now. Watch for progress updates later on. Time to knit!