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October 21, 2005
The Booty
As you can imagine 3 yarn shops in 2 days results in serious shopping. They were, after all, not LYS for a quick pick up of some small item but rather destinations demanding IMO a real purchase. Also Catherine and Liz are both very generous women and I walked away with pressies. First the pressies~ The top two photos are gifts from Catherine who loaned me a lace book and gave me several balls of DMC cordonnet since I told her I had never used it. My purveyer of crochet cotton is fond of Anchor cordonnet[called Mez most often and now discontinued anyway} and had bad mouthed DMC so I never had tried any. Catherine only uses DMC and was horrified that I was walking around with this misconception. In addition she bagged up several poofs of cashmere or cashmere blend fibers and umm cormo too. She also allowed me to shop in her yarn stash and wound off several balls of various on cone stuff she had with the cheery 'you know where to get more should you run out' The third picture is my yarn booty from Liz but she did give me some roving and a sweater to complete. On the roving front I had picked up a lb of kid mohair roving, as mentioned earlier in week, to be split in half with her. She wanted the entire ball so I wound off @ 1/4lb and an equal amt of tussah silk to ply with it from her stash of tussah. She has been working on her tussah stash for ten years and offers me some every time I visit. The sweater is one I really want to see finished. A Liz original and I have 3 'swatches" all the size of sweater and 15 pages of charts to wade through and figure out which was correct. I am glad to do this since I think its a beauty. You ready? :
And as if this wasn't enougth fibery goodness I shopped~ Anatolian Knitting Designs, a new needle sizer, and some Rauma Finullgarn from The Mannings, some alpaca and handpainted looking merino from Unique Threads, two hanks of Anne sock yarn and 3 of some rowan and a multicolored mohair at Uniquities. Have you recovered from the giftie viewing? Take a deap breath the multicolored stuff is in full yarn porn mode ;^>
OK I'm tired just looking at it all! Yarny days and knitterly evenings....
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