I want to rant but I’ll wait till the next post since I’m still digesting what I need to rant about. Anyway…recently I bought a fantastic dress to greet my fabulous husband when he comes home and since he doesn’t read this blog I feel perfectly comfortable showing you my few and dear readers.
Anyway since I’ll be wearing it later in the year I obviously need something to stay warm so I had to go yarn hunting. I had a few ideas mostly worsted at the heaviest and a natural warm fiber. It didn’t count against my no yarn rule since well it was for my husband. So since I had a knitting group to go to I figured I’d start there and then head down to Nashville. Shockingly I actually found something at the first store. Its my most local ys. Well ok there is another store but we’ve decided they suck. Anyway I found an almost perfect match but it was 100% wool and I really felt something with some drape would be much better. But since I wasn’t sure I would find anything else and it was on sale I picked up 1000 yards. I’ll probably pick up a few more skeins so I have enough for a sweater. Its a fantastic color for me, but for this project I really wanted something with drape. So now I could have just left it at that but since it wasn’t perfect further hunting was necessary. So onto Nashville Store #1, I did find the perfect freaking match but it was in chunky. I wasn’t willing to shell out for another chunky so I picked up a lace pattern and left. I was a bit annoyed there too because they kept trying to push me into things I just wasn’t interested in. But really their CS is always hit or miss. And onto the next shop…They didn’t have anything that was what I needed but I had fantastic CS and I managed to get some so amazing koigu. (Sock yarn doesn’t count) and then I went to threadedbliss. Of course I had fantastic CS and they had something that will work. I got some worsted weight alpaca in pretty much the exact shade. Now there was just the what the f*&^ do I knit with it question. I really wanted to make some sort of wrap sweater. They’re flattering and it would be warm and toasty. I only got 800 yards since I had pretty much decided to make some sort of stole. Claire thinks I should make the oh so common clap. Its not quite as retro as I would like but it will work. I’ve been meaning to make it anyway so why the hell not. I swatched today and I’m still undecided on needles. I also had a stunning sock failure last night. I swear this yarn was felting as I knit it almost. Needless to say it will become something other than socks.
