So I may have gone a little overboard in the new acquisitions department recently. Ever since I got home from Stitches United at the beginning of June, I haven’t been able to stop buying yarn for more than a week or so at a time.
Here’s the proof I should never open emails from Expression Fiber Arts:
These two beauties (above and below) are Seacoast Fingering: mostly cotton, with a touch of alpaca and a hint of nylon. Two skeins each of Salt Water (the blue) and Sun Hat (the beigy-yellow). At 489 yards per skein, they are destined to become a striped pullover at some point in the future. The yarn is ripply and textured; I may knit it at a DK/sport gauge rather than a fingering gauge. We’ll see what happens when I swatch it.
The sumptuous stuff below is Twisted Tweet Sport, all wool, in the colorway Mallard. Four 384-yard skeins, meant to become a cardigan or pullover. These skeins came with about a kajillion buttons as a bonus (one package of buttons per skein). I didn’t shoot a pic of the buttons, but they’re really cute.
When I visited my mother over Independence Day weekend, I had to stop in at the LYS near her, The Taming of the Ewe. I love that store. Not only do they sell gorgeous yarn, they sell a wide variety of tea and will happily give you samples to taste. I was in the mood for cotton while there, and picked up these cheerful skeins of Juniper Moon‘s Zooey, a 60% cotton/40% linen blend: two skeins of Aquamarine and one skein of Chartreuse. Each skein is 284 yards, so these are destined for a summertime tee.
Sad news: Cast On Cottage, one of my favorite LYSs in the Atlanta metro, is closing. This makes two Atlanta metro LYS closures that I know of so far this year. Happy news: everything is on sale. Everything. So I went shopping yesterday and came home with more lovely stuff.
Below is Alpaca Silk from Blue Sky Fibers, a 50/50 blend, in the colorway Raisin. Five skeins at 146 yards per skein equals a luxurious future short sleeve tee.
Next I discovered Mayu from Amano Yarns, a simply sinful alpaca/silk/cashmere blend that must be felt to be believed. Three skeins of colorway Green Glass…
Three skeins of the colorway Yellow Grass…
And two skeins of the colorway Frost White. I see another striped pullover/cardigan in the making.
I also bought a pattern book: Whisper by Kim Hargreaves. Simple and elegant designs, not fussy or overly ornate. My kind of stuff.
This seems to be a year for intense stash enhancement. I haven’t blogged everything I’ve bought (and won’t because yipe!) but a look at Ravelry reveals there have been 33 different colorways (many of multiple skeins) added to my stash since January. Yes, that last sentence was passive voice. On purpose. Because the yarn just magically appeared, you know?
Anyway, considering all the yarn already in stash, I think we can safely say I have achieved SABLE status (Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy). Oh well. At least my heirs will have nice yarn. Life’s too short to buy or use bad yarn.
Just don’t tell the spouse.
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