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mo noro

Went to Acorn Street today and it was so quiet in there that the only thing you could hear were my orthotics squeaking in my shoes.  Nice I know and NO I do not feel old b/c my workout trainer is 26 and his orthotics squeak worse than mine!!!

I went to pick up more Noro for the stripey sweater.  I also was in the market for a Kim Hargeaves book, but I guess you can't sell Rowan books unless you also stock their yarns.  I suppose that makes sense...

Drove over to Weaving Works and wow do they close early.  I had 10 minutes to look around, what?!  They also did not have the book.  Here I didn't order online b/c I was trying to be all supportive of the LYS, but sigh. 

It's interesting how this group of Noro looks different than the stuff I bought from a different location.  It's the same color and dye lot too.

looks like blooming flowers!
I have 60 days to use or return this yarn...I'm thinking that I won't need this much, but I'd rather have too much than too little and risk not finding the same dye lot, right?!

all blue

I had a friend take me to get my car from the shop the other AM.  I hopped in his car and he said, "Wow!  You must be knitting a LOT!"  I was all, how do you KNOW this??  Apparently there was a US7 circ stuck to the back of my jacket and backpack and I immediately scanned the stairs from which I came to make sure there wasn't a trailing ball of yarn!  CRAZY!!

Sweater update:  I frogged my striped sweater...it was clear that the front was NOT going to work out chest-wise.  It was kind of weird.  After working out some numbers, I completely forgot I did this and was trying to follow the pattern in the book.  what?!  I know.  So now I'm back on track...yay!

I bought a new 47" US8 and wow it must have been a long time since I've bought needles b/c the new ones have a lovely clear blue wire!

The blue is pretty!
Knitting with a longer circ is so much nicer!!

midnight shopping

See this is what happens when you're up too late looking at sweater patterns online after you've taken an inspiring knitting workshop.  You start to get all of these crazy ideas about what you're going to knit next.  After that bout of midnight shopping, I had completely forgotten (eep!) that I ordered this yarn until it showed up on my doorstep.  Hello!

Again it was the tiniest box ever and once again I thought my entire order could not be in there.  It was like a clown car of yarn!  More and more yarn kept popping out of the box!

8 Rowan Cracksilk Aura, 3 Noro silkgarden, 4 Cascade 200
Oh yes, fun times ahead for sure.

tiny bounty

There was a notice on my front door that there was a package waiting for me at the Post Office.  I went and was shocked for some reason at how small the box was!!  Could my entire order be in there?  Why yes indeed!

could this really be 3,300+ yds of yarn?!!

What is in there you wonder?  I did too!  Because I couldn't wait for my digital camera battery to charge, I've been using my smartphone cam.  It takes pretty good pictures actually...though I can never seem to get the color/exposure right.

Isn't that the most gorgeous color??
One of the neat things about ordering directly from Catherine Lowe is that she will put up your yarn order into larger cakes.   That means less weaving in for you and me.  I <3 her.

wind it and they will come

So the yarny goodness that was wound into a cake...has transformed!  Et voila:
 
I must knit both at once.

I am not one who loves knitting socks. Even though they are such a tiny, portable project sometimes the almost endless number of tiny stitches is too much for me to handle.  Especially if they have an intricate pattern.  egad.  How do the rest of you do it?  Keep track of it?  You're in line, knitting away...k3, y0, k2tog...what?  You're ready for me?  crap!  Put knitting down.  Forget where I was.  ribbit!!  And then you risk having to do the whole thing over again?  No thanks.  I will just get them both done at once and never put the knitting down until the end of a row.

I <3 the Monkey sock pattern found here.  I thought that the new yarn would be the perfect candidate!  If you're lucky and have smaller feet, or are knitting for someone with small feet, using US1 makes stripes (yay!) instead of pooling (boo!  As you can see I had to move up to US2.).  I still like the way these look.  I adore orange and I love turquoise blue.  These remind of me of koi for some reason even though I have never seen a turquoise koi.

Want a close up?

Go fish!

madrona 2010

After a couple of uncertainties, a trip to Madrona 2010 was ON!  I went with Knitting in Mind and per usual we had a great ol' time despite the drizzly rain.  (cupcakes, yum!)

I did manage to restrain myself though and as odd as it is that I don't really enjoy knitting socks unless it's for something like Sockapalooza, of course I had to buy something from STR!

RareGems and Space Dust

I already wound SD into a cake and I'd really like to knit a pair of socks for myself for once!!  Keep your fingers crossed!

Habu was on the down low without their signage, but KiM was able to find them and hopefully she'll blog about what treasures she found there!