There a few of life's pleasure as purely enjoyable as picking up a package from the post office. Double that pleasure when it is an assortment of goodies ordered from The Wool Shack, it was with a giddy joy that I handed over my red card at the local post office, and received my booty.
I went a little nutty, and went against one of my cardinal yarn rules. Don't buy without a plan or pattern. And while I have a lacy scarf pattern from Knit.1 tagged for the cascade 220 yarn, and the kit is self explanatory, the woolganic and Blue Sky Alpaca were impulse buys.
And what a beautiful impluse they are. The Blue Sky is so deliciously soft and velvety, and if worse comes to worse, I'll turn the woolganic into Chrissy stockings or some such.
Perhaps my guilt of impulse spending was amplified by my purchase at Borders today. I finally gave in to temptation and bought the reverred Yarn Harlot's writings of Knitting Rules!. I will happily curl up in bed tonight and start pouring through this one. From the sneak peak I had earlier, I'm hoping for big laughs.
I'm slowly getting through the second sock of my Rapunzel Stockings from the very talented designs Ysolda Teague, and am hoping that I have a little left over from sock two to extend sock one. They are knee-hi, and while the first is adequate, I wouldn't mind just a little more height. Being that I'm 6 foot-tall, the one size fits all doesn't quite apply to me.
I'm hoping to complete this by the weekend (fingers crossed) by which time I hope to have decided what to start next. Decisions, decisions.
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