I initially brought it in while the LYS was having a 20% off
sale on all the things on the wall and tried to buy myself some Quince &
Co. for a sweater, but the amounts and the colours and all the factors weren’t
working out. Besides, I have one sweater quantity of Quince & Co. wound up
and ready to be a sweater whenever I get to it and one sweater quantity of
Quince & Co. on infinite backorder, so I figured maybe this was the yarn
gods telling me this wasn’t the correct use of my free $50US. I left with
nothing (proud of myself…not too often I can say that during 20% off everything
on the wall day. Nearly the whole store is stocked on the walls…at least most
of the practical yarn. It’s hard not to buy *something*), and decided that when
I came back for my regular knitting night on Thursday I would buy myself
something nice. Maybe finally buy some Madeline Tosh despite my opinions about
Madeline Tosh or some Malabrigo.
Come back I did, and although I stood staring at the
Madeline Tosh and Malabrigo wall for a good half an hour, thinking about hats
and cowls and all manner of things I could make, nothing seemed special enough.
Nothing seemed right. Then finally, I found it. A yarn store exclusive that oneof the local dyers created for a recent Shop Hop. Colourways inspired by the
local Zoological Gardens. All the teal/blue/brown variegation I always wanted
and never bought because what was I going to do with all that fingering weight
sock yarn? Only now I’m a sock knitter! So I bought it. It’s not lush. It’s not
luxurious. But it is the exact colours I love. And it is locally created and
locally inspired. And it’s called “More Otter than Sea”. All these things were
a win.
Now, of course, this didn’t take up all my money (close
though…it wasn’t inexpensive sock yarn), so I had to think of what else I could
manage to get 1 skein of and still be able to make something. The answer to
that, it turns out, was Leading Men Fiber Arts. I’ve been hearing about their
yarn (and meaning to listen to their podcast) for a while now, so I was excited
to see it in the store a few weeks ago. The colours were beautiful and vibrant
and, really, the big problem here was deciding what colour I wanted. I could
only get 1 skein of sport weight, so I figure this will turn into a hat or a small
cowl or maybe mittens, so it needed to match with my coats and still serve a
purpose. Problem is, my coats are brown or blue. And the colours I picked up
were either beautiful oranges (still regret not being able to buy that one) or
grey or dark green. So, I was forced to use the tiebreaker method and buy on
colourway name. Which means the grey won out just because they decided to name
it London Fog. Now I need to knit myself just the right thing to take me back
to a grey London day where you need the softest cowl to snuggle down into
against the damp mist that chills you to the bone and everything will be
perfect.
So…added some meters to the stash (720.5 m/ 200g), but it’s for a good
cause and I'm still grossly ahead of schedule thanks to my destash.Besides, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if one or both of these is used up
before the year is out.
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