Yarn
October 19, 2008
I like to support my local knitting store, but knitting can be an expensive habit. There are some beautiful yarns out there (although my preference is to see the pattern rather than the yarn) and I can’t afford any of them. I just bought 5 skeins of Brown Sheep’s Cotton Fleece on Little Knits at 40% off. Here’s the thing about Brown Sheep’s Cotton Fleece: it is the perfect yarn! It feels nice to knit with, it doesn’t pill, and as the woman in my local yarn store says, it has good stitch definition. And you can wash it. And it comes in lots of colors.
New Knitting Projects
October 5, 2008
Today it finally got cold (autumn! I love autumn!) so I made a list of my future knitting projects, but since I only have the yarn for two of these projects, those are the only ones I’ll describe here. In case I don’t actually get to the other projects, and plus it’s good to save something for a future blog.
The first is a cardigan for Finn, who needs a cardigan that she can wear to school. Which means it has to be washable.
And the other project is a scarf that was supposed to be for David, and the color of the yarn is so David, and it would be so wonderful to knit something for him… but I realized that there’s no way he can wear a wool scarf. So now it’ll be a scarf for me, and we’ll get some nice smushy cotton acrylic for David and then I can knit him a scarf out of that instead.
Just so you know, the yarn was $10 a skein, but I figured max. 3 skeins for Finn’s cardigan. So that’s not too bad. Still affordable. But I spent $2 a button! Ack! I had a credit at one of the local knitting stores. And, seriously, how cool are those buttons?
