Fall Stash

Thursday night knitting was a source of great temptation as new fall yarns and pattern books were arriving at Yarn Central and it was hard to just sit and knit as all the lovely yarns were piled all around us.    I picked up a couple of patterns from Classic Elite, and I kept interrupting my knitting to flip through them and wander around the store looking at the yarns.

Interrupting the knitting was not hard as I was having relatively rare gauge issues.  There was one section of the body I just could not get even, and I ended up ripping that portion 7 times before I got it straight.  Every time, I would rip past the floppy place, reknit, and look at the work I got the same piece of stretchy, wonky row right in the middle, and it looked like it was at the exact same place every time.  I was beginning to think there must be some kind of strange lack of twist in the yarn at that point or something because I had trouble believing that even I could make the exact same mistake at the exact same place with such precision. 

When I got home that night, I sat down in the darkened house and knit that section yet again, this time with great attention and mindfulness, pulling the yarn so tight through the suspect stretch of yarn that I feared I would cut the circulation off in my fingers.  Success finally.  But by then I was sick of Blue Baby Sweater and it has been  cast aside while I have indulged in a mad passion for closet and pantry cleaning.

But, back to knitting group.  Do not be lulled into thinking that I came home with only the pattern books.  Two bags of yarn came home that night as well.  Yarn I really don't need, and yarn not intended for any of the plethora of patterns I have shown you so far.

I fell wildly in love with this Manos yarn the instant I saw it.  I came back to it repeatedly during the evening.  There was never any doubt it would come home with me.

I don't know exactly what it will be yet but I do have several ideas.  In fact every time I think about it I come up with more possibilities.    I will spread out the patterns and have to make some swatches just to see how the variegation lines up when actually knitting.  But I still need to start Mermaid first.

The new yarn and my general restless spirit prompted me to reorganize the yarn cubicles in the sewing/yarn room, switching out the summer yarns which I have decided I am not going to knit this year, and replace them with fall inspirations.  There are still some cottons and summer things mixed in; things either I am still thinking I might knit, or yarns that earned a place just because I loved the combinations of colors in the cubby. 

It looks like it is going to be a wine/red/burgundy kind of year:

The large group of 7 wine colored yarns you see in the bottom of the upper left cubby, on the left side, were also purchased Thursday night: Waterlily from Classic Elite.  I intended to make this sweater  but somehow I got all discombobulated with the Classic Elite books and I failed to purchase that particular book.  I must try to remember to pick it up this coming Thursday.  Of course there are untold other sweaters I could knit at that gauge, so no commitments are yet being made.

Here are the other two cubbies of the yarn stash.  The colors are much more muted here and were much harder to photograph:  deep plums, grays,  blues and greens for the most part. 

The big dark mass on the bottom right is some RowanSpun DK half deep inky blue and half deep bottle green.  The camera can't seem to distinguish.  They had been in bags before, but I realized after I stashed the yarn in the cubbies in the spring that I don't like looking at the yarn through the plastic bags.  I can't see the colors and the texture well, so I just ignore.  Banish those bags.

Of course, we all know that I will not get all this yarn knitted up this winter.  But there are many hours of happy dreams wrapped up in this little patch of real estate. 

Autumn Ho!

Comments

[Susan]

What a lovely stash. But...
aren't you worried about moths?

[Gina]

I am breathless at the sight of what I suspect is a portion of your stash! If you wish, I can swap out the incorrect CE booklet for the proper one Thursday.