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April 29, 2004

WIP update

I am very frustrated to say that not much knitting has been going on. No excuse.

The poor Italian t-shirt (that is looking gorgeous with 90% of the back panel done) got set aside this week because I discovered EBAY! This is very bad folks. Very bad. Who knew that bidding could be so much fun? There is definitely strategy involved. The really sad thing is that most of the auctions end at 3am my time. This really sucks unbelieveably. So if it is the middle of the day during the middle of the week and you see me online, it is because I had to (yes, HAD TO) get my patoot out of bed to make sure I got the final bid.

So what have I got so far for my hard bidding work?

Some beautiful home grown light gray and dark gray shetland (100% wool) that I am busily knitting into my first booga bag. I wound the two together because it is about worsted weight or slightly less. The combo is coming out like a really nice tweed, I like it. I think it will look so cool after felting. I plan to do the icord in this bright red that I had leftover from something else. It should be a very nice contrast. I am doubling the bag pattern because I wanted a bigger bag. I think I have enough yarn to do this but if I run out, I will use the red for a stripe at the top to make up any difference. The lady that sold it to me was very, very nice. She even sent me a picture of one of her newest lambs.

The other yarn I "won" (how can you call it winning when you are buying it - look honey, I won us some groceries from the store today) is this gorgeous, soft, smells good, yarn that seems to be superwash 100% wool. The texture is very interesting - it is slightly past bulky. I love the colors. And they did the coolest thing - they balled it up for me prior to sending. I have 800 yards. What to do, what to do? I made a swatch because I just couldn't help it and it seems to want to be a slouchy sweatshirt. I am hiding it behind the rest of my stash so it doesn't accidently fall onto some needles or anything. The name of the company is Mystical Creation Yarns - now you can drool on their website too.

One other purchase is a treat I have had a hankering for quite awhile. I have actually put it into my online shopping cart at least twice before sensibility talked me out of it. I bought (or won, you choose) a wooden yarn swift! Woohoo and even got it for a few bucks less than retail. It hasn't arrived yet but you can bet I will have a winding party when it does. Oh and I also ran across a link at TKGA (thanks again to CC) for how to hand wind a center pull ball. Gonna try that too.

Posted by DebC at April 29, 2004 10:39 PM

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