Met Z this morning at Macrina for coffee and to fuel up before our visit to Hilltop to peruse the yarns and whatnot. They had the 20% off thing going on and well, I'm glad they did b/c I didn't realize that Blue Sky Alpaca was that darned expensive. Ever since I saw the scarf they had hanging in the store, I've wanted to knit it. Sure enough, when we went back, they had gotten in the exact color that I had wanted...
Sadly, my one hank of Blue Sky was as much as Z's 4 hanks of blue (what a shocker I know, blue!!) yarn that she picked up. I would never have picked up that book up there. I didn't even realize Tracey Ullman was on it (I LOVE her! She's hilarious!), but I was pleasantly surprised at the projects inside of the book. I think it really helped that they actually had many of the sweaters on the table around the book (smart, very smart...) so we could feel, see and try on the items! I was sold as you can see from the picture. I really didn't feel like picking up the EIGHTEEN balls of Karabella Aurora for one of the sweaters on this trip, especially since I have so many things on the needles right now. I need to get some of them done, I am feeling a bit anxious with so many unended things.
I need to figure out what I'm going to do with the not-so-Simple sweater. The pattern obviously didn't figure in MY bust in, so it's not fitting as well as I had hoped. To go back and add short rows now would mean I would need to take the sleeve out (yes, only one), undo the shoulders and frog the collar off of the sweater, frog the front panels down and reknit it. sigh.
Still. not. decided.
In the meantime, yes I couldn't resist, I cast on for the new scarf and wow is it soft. I've got 6" done, 27 more to go for this part...
I do have the back almost completely done for the cnr though! I'll be doing japanese short rows for the shoulders and I'm feeling all smart about that, yet kind of daft at the same time while trying to figure out how to do both sides at one since it's been so long since I've done shoulders this way.
Oh man! I was going to get on your blog and yell "Where's that new yarn?!" but you beat me to it. I have been wishing ever since I got home that I had asked if they had more of that blue. I am thinking about a lace stole for around the house...
That WAS great to have the trunk show at HT, I don't think I would have bought that book without looking at the finished pieces. I am going to see what colors that skirt can be made in, I wonder if it comes in blue.
Posted by: Z | Sunday, 22 April 2007 at 09:22 AM
I just checked the yardage on the Rowena cardigan in our new book and I have just enough pink Debbie Bliss Baby Cash to do that...
Posted by: Z | Sunday, 22 April 2007 at 09:46 AM