Hand-painted Soysilk

My men

My men know me well, they both gave me yarn.

Unidentified acrylic yarn from Paperino:



Artyarns Ensemble from HWME:

Where have I been?

Yesterday I spent the afternoon dyeing - I plugged my iPod into my speakers, I set everything on the counter, and I start working listening to Lime & Violet episode # 47. 47? From October 27? That long since last time I listened to Lime & Violet? Where the heck have I been? And where have November and December gone?

Fetching are almost done, almost because:



Yes, I need to use a second ball of yarn just to make the second thumb! I would be mad if I were feeling so lucky, because I had a choice between this colorway (I had one ball) and the one I used (I had two balls.) The knitting gods smiled on me and made me choose the right one.

And look what I got in the mail:



It's my prize from Wooly Wonka Fiber - isn't it beautiful?

Posting from a borrowed DSL line

Rome









Dresden









Prague

I have been good

I was at Stitches yesterday and I have been so good. Well, let's face it, it is easy to be good when you work at a LYS and hence get the employee discount - it really does not make much sense to me to buy from others. And I am not saying much because I do not want to steal the thunder from Hollis, but she is doing four or five awesome "cash and carry" today from various vendors - I am really excited!

But back to my purchase, my first stop was the Shelridge Farm booth - Cookie and Kristi often mention their yarns so I needed to try them:



Shelridge Farm Soft Touch Heather and Ultra - I must say they are true to their names, so soft!
Speaking of Cookie, I bought all of her patterns, to save myself the trouble of choosing:



and this uber-cute baby sweater pattern from Kristi:



The Bay Area Knit Coop booth was next to Purlescence:



Claudia Handpainted Worsted in Shark, and ChicKnit Ariann (paper copy for the same price of the pdf!)

Next stop, Lisa Souza:



The one in red is Blue Faced Leicester, and Lisa told me it's pronounced "lester" - and she agreed that it is weird (I mean, where did the "c" go?). I have been wanting to see BFL for a while, and wow, it is shiny and soft, you would think it is a blend of merino and silk. The other two are merino superwash sport.

And that's it. Since sock yarn it is not stash, just one skein.

Yarn p0rn

To distract you guys from the lack of real knitting content (sorry, I ran out of stuff I have completed a while ago, a wiser blogger would have save one of the two shawls for today), how about some yarn p0rn?



I found a place with better light in my house, too bad it works only in the morning when the sun is out (the sun out is pretty much always in California, it's me functioning in the morning that's rare.)

These babies won't go on etsy because I think I need them for myself will be on etsy soon.