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May 16, 2005

Yarn Pron!

I went to a little market near my house that does not usually have yarn. So how do you tell a true yarn addict? Send her to the market for strawberries (YUMMMMMM) and she sniffs out the ONLY table of yarn in about 300 tables with 5,000 people pushing and shoving through the streets. And I would like to point out that no where in that "flash your stash" post below did I ever mention that I was trying to quit. The guy at the yarn table didn't speak a lick of English and my Italian is horrible. He absolutely refused to believe that I really intended to buy that much yarn at once. He thought that we were having a communication problem. No problem, just gimmee the damn yarn, LOL. Anyway, it is all cotton. I found a nice weight to do a few more Miss Dashwood's or other little hats. I found this Lana Gatto "Cleopatra" cotton/acrylic that is DIVINE. I have already cast it on for a tank, sans pattern. I am gleefully happy at how it is coming out. The cotton yarn is wrapped in places with bright acrylic thread. When it is knit, the thread looks like beads. Beautiful.

I also found some fingering weight cotton that I have promptly knit into the most adorable baby sandals. I tried five times to get a picture of them tonight but absolutely couldn't do it. My neighbor just had a wee five pound baby, which I made the shoes for, so I will get a picture with them on him. No pattern for the shoes either, I am really starting to get the hang of knitting what I want as I am picturing it. I have to tweak the top of the shoe a little bit and then I am going to put it up as a free pattern.

Posted by DebC at May 16, 2005 10:08 PM

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Posted by: wendy at May 19, 2005 10:50 AM