You know how you can look into a kitchen full of food and still find nothing to eat? That’s what my yarn stash is like - full of random bits and pieces, but nothing to knit. So I broke down and spent the first money I’ve spent on myself since like, early January (the chair totally doesn’t count - that was necessary furniture not spoil-thyself stuff!) and bought this:

That would be four wine red balls of Karabella Aurora 8 (my god, it’s soft! It’s soft wool, so terribly soft, and though the label doesn’t say so, other sites say it’s superwash!!!) and two skeins of Blue Sky Alpaca’s Alpaca Silk, and on my god is IT soft, too!!! Of course, that was expected, being as it’s silk and alpaca… but yeah. Like, the wool is nearly so soft, honest!

Anyway, the wool’s for me. I’m gonna knit Backyard Leaves out of it, because though every other one of these scarves that I’ve ever seen has been green, I just couldn’t resist this fun autumy red. I debated on purple, but went with the red.

The alpaca silk skeins are for gifts. I’m gonna knit a couple of those simple bags in Last Minute Gifts (it’s the bag on the cover) and give one to Grandma R. for her birthday, and the other Mom for Mama’s Day. Ain’t I sweet? Course, I’ll have to put something in them. Can’t just give a pretty knitted gift bag… That’d be a ripoff, even if it was handmade.

Speaking of, my birthday is coming up awful quick here, and if anybody out there wants to get me something, I wouldn’t mind some alpaca silk, myself. Or more aurora 8. That stuff is lovely to knit with. Or gosh, you know, anything at all… but yarn is good.

Anyway, off to knit I go…

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1. beautiful yarn choices! i’m sure you more than deserve it :o)

   Comment by amanda — March 9, 2007 @ 7:48 am

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