New Yarn is beginning to pour in! A couple of boxes have arrived from ArtFibers in San Francisco which I haven't dared open yet, as well as several other packages. I am still too far behind in everything else so it is safer if the boxes remain unopened. Once I open the box I will be duty bound to take out all the yarn, caress it, play with it, dump it out on the flour and roll around in it, and nothing else will get done. So in boxes it remains.
This is kind of like Christmas, watching the packages pile up around the tree, with anticipation building until you can actually rip off the paper and play with the goodies.
In the meantime I need a project to start tomorrow on the train to NYC. There are several options readily available BUT I went to a yarn store while I was in Knoxville, a really wonderful store called Knit 'N Purl and guess what? I bought yarn, but not as much as I wanted to buy.
First I got this beautiful sock yarn from Lorna's Laces:
I just adore the colors and I have been thinking about knitting socks a lot lately. I am not sure why because I have never been a big sock wearer. Socks are portable though and easily to carry around in a bag. I also like the idea of wearing socks and would love to wear socks with my gardening clogs or LL Bean Shoes, or just around the house, but they always slip off my heels and bunch up in the middle of my foot. Perhaps I just need socks that fit. Perhaps I just need hand knitted socks! Well, if not, maybe I will knit socks for Miriam, who after all, did take me to this wonderful yarn store.
There were several other things I liked including some beautiful Noro yarns, which took considerable effort to resist I must add, but I told myself that I had just been shopping at ArtFibers after all and that package had not even arrived from California yet when I left for Knoxville.
I did however buy this:
Admittedly I was primarily attracted b y the color. It is actually kind of orange and deep burgundy, forgive the bad lighting but it is STILL raining outside. The orange may be too orange for me, but if that proves to be the case I can finish the edges of the shell I plan to make with a coordinating burgundy yarn. I am not worried. I have confidence that anything that I love can be made to work.
Oh yeah, the specifics: The yarn is Bettina by Adrienne Vittadini. It is viscose, nylon and linen. I had seen several of the solid color Vittadini yarns and was considering them, although the color selection is never my favorite in this line of yarns, but I had not yet seen this yarn. I also bought the Vittadini spring book. There are a couple of sweaters that attracted me and I was considering the book anyway. It has a pattern for a shell using Bettina and I like the basic shape so I decided to make it; this saves me having to adapt some other pattern to this yarn.
Easy is sometimes very good.
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