I’m supposed to be packing for Montreal, but I just wanted to sneak in here and share some new stash additions from the thrift store the other day. I’m still kind of amazed that this happened.
Apologies for the awful photo. And the awful editing. I have no excuses.
Fifty cents each. FIFTY. Cents.
I think the two mossy greens are going to be knit together into some sort of wispy scarf.
Andd now I should really go pack because we are leaving in 45 minutes. Whoops!
I’m supposed to be packing for Montreal, but I just wanted to sneak in here and share some new stash additions from the thrift store the other day. I’m still kind of amazed that this happened.
Apologies for the awful photo. And the awful editing. I have no excuses.
Fifty cents each. FIFTY. Cents.
I think the two mossy greens are going to be knit together into some sort of wispy scarf.
Andd now I should really go pack because we are leaving in 45 minutes. Whoops!
I usually hate ordering yarn online because I don’t like not being able to see and touch what I’m going to be knitting with, and while I love getting things in the mail, I hate waiting for it. Especially if it’s yarn. Or pretty much any craft-related stuffs.
That said, there are a lot of ridiculous deals to be found online. I highly recommend it.
So anyway, a few days ago I was looking everywhere online for two things: Araucania Patagonia in colorway #209 and Berroco Campus in All-Nighter (I know, I’m super original in my color choices — in my defense, sometimes designers really know what they’re doing when they pick colors!). My lys had Berroco Campus but only in weird colorways or strictly black/white/greys, and they don’t carry any Araucania.
So I looked online. Yarn.com had the Berroco but they no longer carried the Patagonia in the colorway I wanted.
So I looked on eBay. I’d never bought yarn on eBay before but I’ve bought all sorts of craftish things on there so I thought I’d look. I ended up finding the exact yarn in the exact colorway for half the price on yarn.com! -squee-
And then I started looking for interim projects, expecting it to take about a week for my yarns to arrive.
Except they both showed up at my doorstep yesterday!
Isn’t this just a scrumptious collection of reds? It’s 100% cotton and ridiculously soft.
And here’s the Campus. I can’t get over how cool this yarn is! When you look at it up close it looks like there are even amounts of purple, pale blue, and orange, and even some flecks of turquoise and pale pink! But then you knit it up and it just looks purple.
-squee!-
Anyway, you can imagine what I spent all of yesterday doing. In fact I meant to do this post yesterday but obviously was distracted. Hee.
Well, I’m back in Boston where there is an utter lack of snow. Or anything resembling snow.
As a form of protest, I’ve spent the afternoon oggling patterns and buying yarn online.
My next two projects are going to be this one and this one, probably in that order, although I guess it depends on which yarn arrives first.
I popped over to my lys earlier because I knew I’d seen Berocco Campus in there before. Sadly they didn’t have the color I wanted, and every single other colorway is either a mix of gray/black/white which is not what I wanted, or was a hideous mix of colors. So I ended up ordering the yarn from WEBS. And now I’m antsily attempting to work on Seester’s Christmas sweater instead, whilst intermittently checking the shipping status of the order I just placed two hours ago every fifteen minutes.
I ordered yarn for Bazan from eBay because I couldn’t find the colorway I wanted anywhere else. And of course the more places that didn’t have it, the more I wanted it. There was a moment right before I clicked “Place Order” when I asked myself, am I really going to wear a red shrug? But I decided that yes, I am, so I bought three skeins. For $5.80 each! Even WEBS lists this yarn for $12.95 per skein! -happy dance-
Speaking of Seester’s Christmas sweater, I think I mentioned that she squee’d over my Effortless Cardigan when I wore it at home and decided she wanted one in a plum-ish color. I’m currently about 2.5″ past splitting the sleeves. Note to self: straight stockinette is no fun when you’re impatiently awaiting more exciting yarn deliveries.
Finally, as the title suggests, I’ve been here two days and am still feeling groggy. You’d think that three hours wouldn’t be that hard to adjust to but technically waking up at 10am here is like waking up at 7am back home, and that’s quite a difference. Especially when you take into consideration the fact that I actually woke up at 1:30pm today. Which technically, my body thinks of as 10:30am, which is a perfectly respectable time to wake up.
Anyway, my point is, pictures later and apologies if none of this made sense.
Well, I’m back in Boston where there is an utter lack of snow. Or anything resembling snow.
As a form of protest, I’ve spent the afternoon oggling patterns and buying yarn online.
My next two projects are going to be this one and this one, probably in that order, although I guess it depends on which yarn arrives first.
I popped over to my lys earlier because I knew I’d seen Berocco Campus in there before. Sadly they didn’t have the color I wanted, and every single other colorway is either a mix of gray/black/white which is not what I wanted, or was a hideous mix of colors. So I ended up ordering the yarn from WEBS. And now I’m antsily attempting to work on Seester’s Christmas sweater instead, whilst intermittently checking the shipping status of the order I just placed two hours ago every fifteen minutes.
I ordered yarn for Bazan from eBay because I couldn’t find the colorway I wanted anywhere else. And of course the more places that didn’t have it, the more I wanted it. There was a moment right before I clicked “Place Order” when I asked myself, am I really going to wear a red shrug? But I decided that yes, I am, so I bought three skeins. For $5.80 each! Even WEBS lists this yarn for $12.95 per skein! -happy dance-
Speaking of Seester’s Christmas sweater, I think I mentioned that she squee’d over my Effortless Cardigan when I wore it at home and decided she wanted one in a plum-ish color. I’m currently about 2.5″ past splitting the sleeves. Note to self: straight stockinette is no fun when you’re impatiently awaiting more exciting yarn deliveries.
Finally, as the title suggests, I’ve been here two days and am still feeling groggy. You’d think that three hours wouldn’t be that hard to adjust to but technically waking up at 10am here is like waking up at 7am back home, and that’s quite a difference. Especially when you take into consideration the fact that I actually woke up at 1:30pm today. Which technically, my body thinks of as 10:30am, which is a perfectly respectable time to wake up.
Anyway, my point is, pictures later and apologies if none of this made sense.