Foreplay, then S.E.X.

Don't you love inventory clearances?

Higs, Katherine

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:42:27 -0400, "Katherine" spewed forth :

Especially at the real yarn shops. My preplanned purchases mostly didn't happen - no Cascade220, and no Zephyr - but the things I did purchase will keep me busy for a while. I took with me a list of the Cascade I already have in the stash, the shop had nothing I wanted that I don't already have. And her Zephyr stock was greatly depleted from what I remember it being when I was there last week; possibly staff bought up the "good" colors before the doors opened yesterday, or she pulled it off the shelf for the duration of the inventor sale. Either way, I'm not missing it, really. I have 5# of wool-silk blend spinning fiber so theoretically I can spin my own, yes? hehehe

The wool/alpaca blend yarn is just scrumptious. I bought a couple of hanks last week to sample, the resulting scarf is spectacular if I do say so myself. The stuff is a Rowan line with the most reasonable price-point I've seen for a wool/alpaca blend: $8 US for 220 yards (worsted weight, but it knits up more like sport). Good color selection, which I hope will vary by season. I snagged all of the "Blue Pine" (a dusky greenish-blue) and "Aubergine" (purple, surprise surprise). Here's a link:

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"Wooly" spewed forth with

Ooooooooooooooooh - greenish blue - (drooling, wiping chin). It sounds heavenly.

I've fingered, petted and pawed a lot of Noro yarns, but haven't bought any yet. I just have a hard time justifying the price to myself. I find their

Shelagh

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:49:15 -0600, "Shillelagh" spewed forth :

Oh yes, it is a lovely color - nicer in person than the color swatch on that website.

I do too, as a rule, so I try to buy it only when the LYS puts it on sale. I have lots of two-ball sets in the stash waiting to be hats, or even big socks to be worn inside little leather ballerinas - house socks, in other words.

Eh, sometimes. Once the stuff is washed it softens substantially, blooms, and is generally thousands of percents nicer than it is in the hank. I do find bits of hay and whatnot in it, but no more than I find in my own handspun. And the crap I have to pick out of the Kureyon is usually bigger than the crap I find in my handspun so its easier to pick out.

A couple of years ago there was a short-row scarf that took great advantage of the color pooling inherent in most of the Noro yarns. A friend of mine published a pattern for it in ... Knitter's, I believe. If you search around a bit online you can probably find one of the various versions of the pattern; I used "short row garter stitch scarf pattern", Google spat back lots and lots of hits. Or, if you have a copy of Domino Knitting you can probably fake something up that'll use that color pooling to good effect...

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I think I am going to get me some alpaca next summer.

Higs, Katherine