Whee! Has my luck been good in the knitting area :) Last week it was the swift. This week it’s yarn - beautiful and useful wools, alpacas and mohairs. Oh and some snazzy cottons too! Let me show you…
I got a wild urge to head to the mill shop yesterday. Clearly the knitting gods were nudging me to move my lazy bum because this is what I found:
This Le Gran mohair is seriously hairy stuff - I wound a ball of it last night and I have to tell you, I would have been lost without the swift! That stuff, lovely and luxurious as it is, would have kept sticking to itself and snarling and tangling until I gave up and threw it out if I hadn’t had the swift to tame it and make it mind its manners! Cripes, I’ve only had the thing a week and already I can’t imagine what I ever did without it!
What’s that? What about the worsted weight wool? Heheh…
I acquired 17 hanks of yarn, excellent, wonderful Dulaan worthy yarn - for $1 a hank. Odd lots, discontinued colors and so forth. The real luck part comes in when you realize that you wouldn’t have seen any of it if you’d been just an hour later - it would all have vanished into somebody else’s basket - just the way it vanished into yours :)
I also stumbled onto a pattern for a Baby Cardigan which I thought was just adorable. I had seen the pattern before but hadn’t thought much of the yarns used. I’m not dissing Crystal Palace yarns by any means, I just don’t like working with chenille. So when I saw this:
It’s pouring down rain again here; I guess the universe thinks we haven’t had enough already :) The word is that this won’t increase flooding, it will just take longer for the rivers to recede. I suppose we had two lovely, sunny days - what more did I want?
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
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Dulaan, Dulaan, Dulaan. I like how you think, Robbyn!
Ryan - Gotta keep myself on track :)
Wow, what magnificent finds! I would normally have trouble figuring out what to do with such odds and ends, but you’re right ... Dulaan fits the bill quite well. :)
Colleen - A great start for 2007, for sure!
Howdy, boy that is some hairy mohair for sure! Isn’t that neat how you got the swift and only then did the fabulous tangly mohair present itself? That knitting goddess, she sure is on it!
exercize bike? wow, good for you! What lovely yarn finds you made!
Aarlene - You’re right, and I never even thought about the order of the occurrences :) IF the mohair were any hairier, I’d have to shave it!
Nat - I really, really prefer walking, but when it’s raining all the time, the bike is more practical - if a little more uncomfortable on the fundament :)
I don’t know what I’d do without my yarn winder. I’ve had that for almost a year now, and it’s a real lifesaver, especially for *unwinding mistakes*. So far I haven’t even wanted a swift, but it sounds like most people have to have one or the other!
Excellent score on the inexpensive yarn! (I was once reminded by a woman in a shop never to call anything “cheap"--it’s inexpensive, not cheap...) :)
Hi there pinecone70 :)
I’m sill thinking over the ball winder. I can see how it would be useful, but I’m pretty sure I’d take the swift if I could only have one or the other.
I agree with your yarn-shop lady. This yarn was nexpensive but it is anything but cheap :)
As far as I can see, the universe is unfolding as it should. It was just a couple of days ago that Robbyn sent a stash worth of yarn, knit up into charming socks and hats and such. So now, right on time, the universe has sent her another stash of yarn, so there will be more charming socks and hats and such. Balance is maintained: Robbyn has yarn = Dulaan has socks.
I think the swift was the universe giving Robbyn a big “thank you” from Dulaan.
And by the way my team won the hockey game last night.
amaryllis 
Amaryllis - Well, that’s an interesting way of looking at it :)
Hooray for your hockey team!
