What Do You Think?

Okay, this is Tempting thus far, at perhaps 17.5 inches in length, maybe 18. The pattern calls for it to be something like 21-22 inches, but I’m thinking I might not want it to be much longer. So I’ve posted a pic of it thus far, so let me know if you think I should keep knitting or what? It will need a ribbon, but for today I just wanted to see a)if it even fitted, and b) how it looked on, if it was long enough, etc.

That’s all for now.

What Do You Think?

Okay, this is Tempting thus far, at perhaps 17.5 inches in length, maybe 18. The pattern calls for it to be something like 21-22 inches, but I’m thinking I might not want it to be much longer. So I’ve posted a pic of it thus far, so let me know if you think I should keep knitting or what? It will need a ribbon, but for today I just wanted to see a)if it even fitted, and b) how it looked on, if it was long enough, etc.

That’s all for now.

What Do You Think?

Okay, this is Tempting thus far, at perhaps 17.5 inches in length, maybe 18. The pattern calls for it to be something like 21-22 inches, but I’m thinking I might not want it to be much longer. So I’ve posted a pic of it thus far, so let me know if you think I should keep knitting or what? It will need a ribbon, but for today I just wanted to see a)if it even fitted, and b) how it looked on, if it was long enough, etc.

That’s all for now.

Where in the World Has Wanda Been?

It feels like it’s been ages since I last blogged. You would think I would have all this free time to blog, but not really. I guess I have the time, but not the energy. I might spend time reading blogs in between looking for jobs while I’m at the computer, but that’s through Bloglines, so not the same in creating a post.

The job search is still going, but not hearing anything back yet, which can kind of be a bit depressing, but I figure everyone doesn’t move on “Wanda time”, although I’m not really sure why! But I am taking some classes with the outplacement agency my former company partnered with today, so that’s a positive thing and will make me feel a bit better. I was also working for 3 days full time at Eddie Bauer, my part-time job that I had, but in the Home store as it’s going out of business. 8.5 hours days on my feet is not a good thing and boy was I tired, but it was good to get out of the house too.

Knitting-wise, my last post sounded as if I hadn’t been knitting at all, which wasn’t entirely true, but I guess if you don’t post for 5 days, you have a little more time to actually get some knitting done. I did go to a knitting group on Saturday, in the a.m., didn’t make it over to Miss Cynthia’s as I had to work at the aforementioned Eddie Bauer that evening. I’m making great progress on the sock, almost to the toe decreases, so I’m happy to have that almost done, so I can get started on my sock pal socks. I’ll have to post some pics, hopefully tomorrow, of which yarn to use and possibly sock patterns or just go with a stockinette sock with self-patterning yarn, hmm.

I do actually have some knitting pics today, so here’s the sock:

I have to say for never doing any sort of pattern for a sock, other than just letting the self-patterning yarn do its thing, this was a fun pattern to do and I really love the yarn I’m working with too. It has subtle variegations of the brown yarn but it’s working up wonderfully.

Me and Donna, which I absolutely *lurve* is moving right along. I have finished the front and am now working on both sleeves at the same time. I also decided to make the sleeves shorter, from 11.5 inches to 6.25. Quite a difference. One of my friends at Strawberry Tree (my LYS) helped me by figuring out the increases and changing my number of cast on stitched to make the pattern work. I’m very excited to be somewhere near finishing this thing in the next few weeks. Here’s the front, in case you wanted to see it:

Tempting, oh how I don’t love thee anymore. I did pick it up last night and knit a few rounds, but it looks like I’ve got at least 5 more to go. I will probably just sit down a couple of nights in a row with a movie and go to work on this thing. Although while we were watching some tv last night, I was getting into a rhythm, but this thing takes forever to grow. I swear it just eats yarn. Even if I watch say two movies for 2 hours each, I might get two inches total out of this thing. I have to just do nothing for the better part of a day to get 3-4 inches and by then my hands are aching, but I do want this thing to be through. The good thing about knitting in the round is that there aren’t a ton of ends with pieces and nothing to seam up. Just finish attaching the sleeves to the piece and weave in the ends from the yarn. It is looking better:

It was good to get out with friends this weekend, that helped fuel my knitting desire again. I also completed my knitting inventory yesterday. While digging through the 3rd and final bin, I found some yarn that I’d been gifted with before that I picked up greedily at the time, but now realize I have no real use for this yarn and I don’t plan on ever doing that much baby knitting with the same yarn, over and over again, so I’ve cleared it out of my stash. As well as more of the plastic Katia Sherry I have that I don’t know what possessed me to ever buy. I think whenever one of the local yarn groups does a yarn swap or something I will take that yarn over and see who wants it. It’s not bad stuff, I just don’t want it. Especially as I looked over at 90% of my stash is stuff that I really love. There’s other stuff, such as scraps, which are just there, but they do take up a little space and some baby yarns for all those folks that keep reproducing, so it’s okay stuff there, but I’m not just all “up” in love with that.

Oh and for you blogger/blogspot users, did you notice that the upload image button is actually working and you don’t have to do all the runaround stuff to get your pics in a post? Very nice, I’m just trying it out today for the first time. You do have to be careful when you upload it as it puts the picture at the top of the post, but you can cut and paste it to the spot where you want it. You gotta love the people that do this stuff, Blogger, Google, Hello and Picasa, it’s pretty sweet for free. And if you people didn’t know it, I love free!

Where in the World Has Wanda Been?

It feels like it’s been ages since I last blogged. You would think I would have all this free time to blog, but not really. I guess I have the time, but not the energy. I might spend time reading blogs in between looking for jobs while I’m at the computer, but that’s through Bloglines, so not the same in creating a post.

The job search is still going, but not hearing anything back yet, which can kind of be a bit depressing, but I figure everyone doesn’t move on “Wanda time”, although I’m not really sure why! But I am taking some classes with the outplacement agency my former company partnered with today, so that’s a positive thing and will make me feel a bit better. I was also working for 3 days full time at Eddie Bauer, my part-time job that I had, but in the Home store as it’s going out of business. 8.5 hours days on my feet is not a good thing and boy was I tired, but it was good to get out of the house too.

Knitting-wise, my last post sounded as if I hadn’t been knitting at all, which wasn’t entirely true, but I guess if you don’t post for 5 days, you have a little more time to actually get some knitting done. I did go to a knitting group on Saturday, in the a.m., didn’t make it over to Miss Cynthia’s as I had to work at the aforementioned Eddie Bauer that evening. I’m making great progress on the sock, almost to the toe decreases, so I’m happy to have that almost done, so I can get started on my sock pal socks. I’ll have to post some pics, hopefully tomorrow, of which yarn to use and possibly sock patterns or just go with a stockinette sock with self-patterning yarn, hmm.

I do actually have some knitting pics today, so here’s the sock:

I have to say for never doing any sort of pattern for a sock, other than just letting the self-patterning yarn do its thing, this was a fun pattern to do and I really love the yarn I’m working with too. It has subtle variegations of the brown yarn but it’s working up wonderfully.

Me and Donna, which I absolutely *lurve* is moving right along. I have finished the front and am now working on both sleeves at the same time. I also decided to make the sleeves shorter, from 11.5 inches to 6.25. Quite a difference. One of my friends at Strawberry Tree (my LYS) helped me by figuring out the increases and changing my number of cast on stitched to make the pattern work. I’m very excited to be somewhere near finishing this thing in the next few weeks. Here’s the front, in case you wanted to see it:

Tempting, oh how I don’t love thee anymore. I did pick it up last night and knit a few rounds, but it looks like I’ve got at least 5 more to go. I will probably just sit down a couple of nights in a row with a movie and go to work on this thing. Although while we were watching some tv last night, I was getting into a rhythm, but this thing takes forever to grow. I swear it just eats yarn. Even if I watch say two movies for 2 hours each, I might get two inches total out of this thing. I have to just do nothing for the better part of a day to get 3-4 inches and by then my hands are aching, but I do want this thing to be through. The good thing about knitting in the round is that there aren’t a ton of ends with pieces and nothing to seam up. Just finish attaching the sleeves to the piece and weave in the ends from the yarn. It is looking better:

It was good to get out with friends this weekend, that helped fuel my knitting desire again. I also completed my knitting inventory yesterday. While digging through the 3rd and final bin, I found some yarn that I’d been gifted with before that I picked up greedily at the time, but now realize I have no real use for this yarn and I don’t plan on ever doing that much baby knitting with the same yarn, over and over again, so I’ve cleared it out of my stash. As well as more of the plastic Katia Sherry I have that I don’t know what possessed me to ever buy. I think whenever one of the local yarn groups does a yarn swap or something I will take that yarn over and see who wants it. It’s not bad stuff, I just don’t want it. Especially as I looked over at 90% of my stash is stuff that I really love. There’s other stuff, such as scraps, which are just there, but they do take up a little space and some baby yarns for all those folks that keep reproducing, so it’s okay stuff there, but I’m not just all “up” in love with that.

Oh and for you blogger/blogspot users, did you notice that the upload image button is actually working and you don’t have to do all the runaround stuff to get your pics in a post? Very nice, I’m just trying it out today for the first time. You do have to be careful when you upload it as it puts the picture at the top of the post, but you can cut and paste it to the spot where you want it. You gotta love the people that do this stuff, Blogger, Google, Hello and Picasa, it’s pretty sweet for free. And if you people didn’t know it, I love free!

Where in the World Has Wanda Been?

It feels like it’s been ages since I last blogged. You would think I would have all this free time to blog, but not really. I guess I have the time, but not the energy. I might spend time reading blogs in between looking for jobs while I’m at the computer, but that’s through Bloglines, so not the same in creating a post.

The job search is still going, but not hearing anything back yet, which can kind of be a bit depressing, but I figure everyone doesn’t move on “Wanda time”, although I’m not really sure why! But I am taking some classes with the outplacement agency my former company partnered with today, so that’s a positive thing and will make me feel a bit better. I was also working for 3 days full time at Eddie Bauer, my part-time job that I had, but in the Home store as it’s going out of business. 8.5 hours days on my feet is not a good thing and boy was I tired, but it was good to get out of the house too.

Knitting-wise, my last post sounded as if I hadn’t been knitting at all, which wasn’t entirely true, but I guess if you don’t post for 5 days, you have a little more time to actually get some knitting done. I did go to a knitting group on Saturday, in the a.m., didn’t make it over to Miss Cynthia’s as I had to work at the aforementioned Eddie Bauer that evening. I’m making great progress on the sock, almost to the toe decreases, so I’m happy to have that almost done, so I can get started on my sock pal socks. I’ll have to post some pics, hopefully tomorrow, of which yarn to use and possibly sock patterns or just go with a stockinette sock with self-patterning yarn, hmm.

I do actually have some knitting pics today, so here’s the sock:

I have to say for never doing any sort of pattern for a sock, other than just letting the self-patterning yarn do its thing, this was a fun pattern to do and I really love the yarn I’m working with too. It has subtle variegations of the brown yarn but it’s working up wonderfully.

Me and Donna, which I absolutely *lurve* is moving right along. I have finished the front and am now working on both sleeves at the same time. I also decided to make the sleeves shorter, from 11.5 inches to 6.25. Quite a difference. One of my friends at Strawberry Tree (my LYS) helped me by figuring out the increases and changing my number of cast on stitched to make the pattern work. I’m very excited to be somewhere near finishing this thing in the next few weeks. Here’s the front, in case you wanted to see it:

Tempting, oh how I don’t love thee anymore. I did pick it up last night and knit a few rounds, but it looks like I’ve got at least 5 more to go. I will probably just sit down a couple of nights in a row with a movie and go to work on this thing. Although while we were watching some tv last night, I was getting into a rhythm, but this thing takes forever to grow. I swear it just eats yarn. Even if I watch say two movies for 2 hours each, I might get two inches total out of this thing. I have to just do nothing for the better part of a day to get 3-4 inches and by then my hands are aching, but I do want this thing to be through. The good thing about knitting in the round is that there aren’t a ton of ends with pieces and nothing to seam up. Just finish attaching the sleeves to the piece and weave in the ends from the yarn. It is looking better:

It was good to get out with friends this weekend, that helped fuel my knitting desire again. I also completed my knitting inventory yesterday. While digging through the 3rd and final bin, I found some yarn that I’d been gifted with before that I picked up greedily at the time, but now realize I have no real use for this yarn and I don’t plan on ever doing that much baby knitting with the same yarn, over and over again, so I’ve cleared it out of my stash. As well as more of the plastic Katia Sherry I have that I don’t know what possessed me to ever buy. I think whenever one of the local yarn groups does a yarn swap or something I will take that yarn over and see who wants it. It’s not bad stuff, I just don’t want it. Especially as I looked over at 90% of my stash is stuff that I really love. There’s other stuff, such as scraps, which are just there, but they do take up a little space and some baby yarns for all those folks that keep reproducing, so it’s okay stuff there, but I’m not just all “up” in love with that.

Oh and for you blogger/blogspot users, did you notice that the upload image button is actually working and you don’t have to do all the runaround stuff to get your pics in a post? Very nice, I’m just trying it out today for the first time. You do have to be careful when you upload it as it puts the picture at the top of the post, but you can cut and paste it to the spot where you want it. You gotta love the people that do this stuff, Blogger, Google, Hello and Picasa, it’s pretty sweet for free. And if you people didn’t know it, I love free!

A Little Clarification

Regarding Estes, it does look like my purchases were restrained and they were for me. However for my Secret Pal, I bought a few more items, I just can’t post them on the blog as of yet.

Knitting-wise, I’ve been knitting but not that much. I worked on Donna last Friday and that’s been about it for that project. I did pick up my blueberry waffle socks that had been lingering around for a bit. I got to a point where I needed to do all the heel stuff (working the heel flap, turning the heel and picking up stitches) that is usually not conducive to doing while knitting with friends, so I put it down and then kind of forgot about it for awhile.

Since I’ve been home (in my hot house with no A/C), I haven’t felt like pulling out Donna and think I had some residual guilt about that sock, so I pulled it out and began working on the heel. I’ve finished all the stuff for the heel and actually done all of the decreases and am now just working on the foot. That’s what I love about socks, their portability. I’ve been forced, er, watching the finals with the bf and have gotten to work on the socks quite a bit. Although Donna is lingering, I will probably pick her up today.

Tempting is not tempting me at all and for now, it’s just sitting there. I will finish it because I’ve put this much work into it, but I’m not feeling the love.

Oh and regarding the Cotton-Ease hoarding behavior as of late, a la Cathi and Monica and Lynette, the sugarplum Cotton Ease was purchased last week at Hancock Fabrics, which mine was not even on sale. But then the two bags of Popsical Blue were bought at Tuesday Morning on Monday evening. (Sorry Michelle, I couldn’t make it to Tuesday Morning on Monday morning, hehe!) And Stacey went hogwild over CE last weekend and I picked up some Cherry Red that she didn’t want. The picture showed one bag, but I, in fact, have two bags of it too.

Following the lead of Julie, I’ve begun cataloguing my stash. It’s actually something I’ve done a few times, but I always stall out on the data entry side. But seeing as how I have a little free time right now (ahem!), I figure I’ve got time to get my stash catalogued and entered in Excel as well as my books.

Cynthia told me that I have a large stash, which I don’t think it’s that bad. I mean, I only have 3 large tubs of the clear variety. However, as she mentioned, it doesn’t sound bad until you start looking at what’s all in them. And as I was cataloguing the 1st bin (please note: I haven’t even gotten to the other two), that yeah, I have a butt-load of yarn. But I do love my stash.

And to make matters worse, my LYS was having a sale yesterday and I went to it. I actually only wanted to purchase an additional 5-6 balls of Mission Falls 1824 Wool in a mustard gold colorway. I’d purchased this yarn to make a lacy rib sweater from one of the Missions Falls books a few years ago and have enough yarn for me, but as I started swatching for it, I wasn’t that enthused by this sweater. M keeps saying how he loves this color and I could always make one for him. Since I’ve promised him that I would make a sweater for him by this Christmas, I thought I’d get more of this color. But sadly they were out of the colorway, so I needed to find something else for him. I did find a nice merino wool in a mossy green color. I was attempting to get home and get it put away before he got there, but in typical fashion, that didn’t happen. So, when he got home, I just showed it to him and he loved the color, which was good. Now I just need to find a pattern.

I’ll try to have pics in the next post. I was just too lazy to bother today.

oops, I forgot to mention, while at my LYS, I ran into Cynthia and helped her shop for yarn, as well as seeing AmyB and her little sweetheart Edwin, who was not interested in meeting any of Mommy’s friends! Stacey came by for moral support, but it didn’t stop Cynthia’s foray into the Dark side of Knittery (heh-heh!). We also saw Jon who was helping push the crack, er, yarn. He was also sporting the clean-shaven look and it looked good on you Jon.

A Little Clarification

Regarding Estes, it does look like my purchases were restrained and they were for me. However for my Secret Pal, I bought a few more items, I just can’t post them on the blog as of yet.

Knitting-wise, I’ve been knitting but not that much. I worked on Donna last Friday and that’s been about it for that project. I did pick up my blueberry waffle socks that had been lingering around for a bit. I got to a point where I needed to do all the heel stuff (working the heel flap, turning the heel and picking up stitches) that is usually not conducive to doing while knitting with friends, so I put it down and then kind of forgot about it for awhile.

Since I’ve been home (in my hot house with no A/C), I haven’t felt like pulling out Donna and think I had some residual guilt about that sock, so I pulled it out and began working on the heel. I’ve finished all the stuff for the heel and actually done all of the decreases and am now just working on the foot. That’s what I love about socks, their portability. I’ve been forced, er, watching the finals with the bf and have gotten to work on the socks quite a bit. Although Donna is lingering, I will probably pick her up today.

Tempting is not tempting me at all and for now, it’s just sitting there. I will finish it because I’ve put this much work into it, but I’m not feeling the love.

Oh and regarding the Cotton-Ease hoarding behavior as of late, a la Cathi and Monica and Lynette, the sugarplum Cotton Ease was purchased last week at Hancock Fabrics, which mine was not even on sale. But then the two bags of Popsical Blue were bought at Tuesday Morning on Monday evening. (Sorry Michelle, I couldn’t make it to Tuesday Morning on Monday morning, hehe!) And Stacey went hogwild over CE last weekend and I picked up some Cherry Red that she didn’t want. The picture showed one bag, but I, in fact, have two bags of it too.

Following the lead of Julie, I’ve begun cataloguing my stash. It’s actually something I’ve done a few times, but I always stall out on the data entry side. But seeing as how I have a little free time right now (ahem!), I figure I’ve got time to get my stash catalogued and entered in Excel as well as my books.

Cynthia told me that I have a large stash, which I don’t think it’s that bad. I mean, I only have 3 large tubs of the clear variety. However, as she mentioned, it doesn’t sound bad until you start looking at what’s all in them. And as I was cataloguing the 1st bin (please note: I haven’t even gotten to the other two), that yeah, I have a butt-load of yarn. But I do love my stash.

And to make matters worse, my LYS was having a sale yesterday and I went to it. I actually only wanted to purchase an additional 5-6 balls of Mission Falls 1824 Wool in a mustard gold colorway. I’d purchased this yarn to make a lacy rib sweater from one of the Missions Falls books a few years ago and have enough yarn for me, but as I started swatching for it, I wasn’t that enthused by this sweater. M keeps saying how he loves this color and I could always make one for him. Since I’ve promised him that I would make a sweater for him by this Christmas, I thought I’d get more of this color. But sadly they were out of the colorway, so I needed to find something else for him. I did find a nice merino wool in a mossy green color. I was attempting to get home and get it put away before he got there, but in typical fashion, that didn’t happen. So, when he got home, I just showed it to him and he loved the color, which was good. Now I just need to find a pattern.

I’ll try to have pics in the next post. I was just too lazy to bother today.

oops, I forgot to mention, while at my LYS, I ran into Cynthia and helped her shop for yarn, as well as seeing AmyB and her little sweetheart Edwin, who was not interested in meeting any of Mommy’s friends! Stacey came by for moral support, but it didn’t stop Cynthia’s foray into the Dark side of Knittery (heh-heh!). We also saw Jon who was helping push the crack, er, yarn. He was also sporting the clean-shaven look and it looked good on you Jon.

A Little Clarification

Regarding Estes, it does look like my purchases were restrained and they were for me. However for my Secret Pal, I bought a few more items, I just can’t post them on the blog as of yet.

Knitting-wise, I’ve been knitting but not that much. I worked on Donna last Friday and that’s been about it for that project. I did pick up my blueberry waffle socks that had been lingering around for a bit. I got to a point where I needed to do all the heel stuff (working the heel flap, turning the heel and picking up stitches) that is usually not conducive to doing while knitting with friends, so I put it down and then kind of forgot about it for awhile.

Since I’ve been home (in my hot house with no A/C), I haven’t felt like pulling out Donna and think I had some residual guilt about that sock, so I pulled it out and began working on the heel. I’ve finished all the stuff for the heel and actually done all of the decreases and am now just working on the foot. That’s what I love about socks, their portability. I’ve been forced, er, watching the finals with the bf and have gotten to work on the socks quite a bit. Although Donna is lingering, I will probably pick her up today.

Tempting is not tempting me at all and for now, it’s just sitting there. I will finish it because I’ve put this much work into it, but I’m not feeling the love.

Oh and regarding the Cotton-Ease hoarding behavior as of late, a la Cathi and Monica and Lynette, the sugarplum Cotton Ease was purchased last week at Hancock Fabrics, which mine was not even on sale. But then the two bags of Popsical Blue were bought at Tuesday Morning on Monday evening. (Sorry Michelle, I couldn’t make it to Tuesday Morning on Monday morning, hehe!) And Stacey went hogwild over CE last weekend and I picked up some Cherry Red that she didn’t want. The picture showed one bag, but I, in fact, have two bags of it too.

Following the lead of Julie, I’ve begun cataloguing my stash. It’s actually something I’ve done a few times, but I always stall out on the data entry side. But seeing as how I have a little free time right now (ahem!), I figure I’ve got time to get my stash catalogued and entered in Excel as well as my books.

Cynthia told me that I have a large stash, which I don’t think it’s that bad. I mean, I only have 3 large tubs of the clear variety. However, as she mentioned, it doesn’t sound bad until you start looking at what’s all in them. And as I was cataloguing the 1st bin (please note: I haven’t even gotten to the other two), that yeah, I have a butt-load of yarn. But I do love my stash.

And to make matters worse, my LYS was having a sale yesterday and I went to it. I actually only wanted to purchase an additional 5-6 balls of Mission Falls 1824 Wool in a mustard gold colorway. I’d purchased this yarn to make a lacy rib sweater from one of the Missions Falls books a few years ago and have enough yarn for me, but as I started swatching for it, I wasn’t that enthused by this sweater. M keeps saying how he loves this color and I could always make one for him. Since I’ve promised him that I would make a sweater for him by this Christmas, I thought I’d get more of this color. But sadly they were out of the colorway, so I needed to find something else for him. I did find a nice merino wool in a mossy green color. I was attempting to get home and get it put away before he got there, but in typical fashion, that didn’t happen. So, when he got home, I just showed it to him and he loved the color, which was good. Now I just need to find a pattern.

I’ll try to have pics in the next post. I was just too lazy to bother today.

oops, I forgot to mention, while at my LYS, I ran into Cynthia and helped her shop for yarn, as well as seeing AmyB and her little sweetheart Edwin, who was not interested in meeting any of Mommy’s friends! Stacey came by for moral support, but it didn’t stop Cynthia’s foray into the Dark side of Knittery (heh-heh!). We also saw Jon who was helping push the crack, er, yarn. He was also sporting the clean-shaven look and it looked good on you Jon.

Estes Weekend Recap

You know you’re in for a good time when your evening starts like this:

When we arrived at Michelle’s, a skein of Lorna’s Laces was there to let us know we’d arrived at the right house. Michelle and Mr. Sittin’ were great hosts. Mr. Sittin’ made us many a margarita or poured wine if you preferred. We had lots of great snacks to nosh on and we twittered on until late into the night. We got to go through Michelle’s stash, which is plentiful and lovely, and finally near 2 am we realized if we were going to get up at the butt-crack of dawn,we needed to get some sleep. Poor Stacey didn’t get to stay over and had to drive back home, but amazingly, she did knit throughout the night. It was a first, truly!! :-0

The next a.m. after only a few hours of sleep, we headed out to Estes. I talked Cynthia into riding with me up to the Starbucks where we were meeting other friends, probably much to her dismay. We got to talking so much, we missed our turnoff and thankfully our friends waited for us while we took a back road and finally made it to the meeting place.

Once we got to Estes, the whole pack of ladies spread like wildfire. No one really stayed with anyone for long, just going from booth to booth checking out yarn. Lesley and I kept running into each other around the same booths for much of the day, it was pretty funny. While I had a great time at Estes, not too much yarn was actually purchased by me. I did buy some, but I realized later that the majority of things I purchased were for my Secret Pal, which was pretty fun to shop for.

Here’s my sad little bounty from Estes (that I can show:)

At first my strategy (as if there was really one) was to walk around everything once and then go look at those places that really called to me. There was lots of rovings and fleece that I wasn’t interested in, so much of that was easy to exclude. However, I passed one place,Yarn Today, that wasn’t necessarily spectacular, they just carried Trekking sock yarn and I saw a pretty skein (pictured above)and I bought it. Then katty-korner from them, was Plain & Fancy Sheep & Wool.

I absolutely *heart* this vendor. They only do a few trade shows a year. They are located in Henderson, TX and have no website. They don’t even take credit cards, just cash or check. But they have lots of variegated yarns, which I love, in sportweight and not as pricey as Brooks Farm, which I do like their yarns, but when I got to Plain & Fancy, I knew whatever I wanted, I needed to buy then. The good stuff doesn’t stay long. I learned from experience at my first Estes 3 yrs. ago when we went up on a Sunday and there were only 1 or 2 items left in variegateds, not enough to make a garment with. But this year, I stopped myself from buying enough for a garment and actually bought the two skeins you see to make a Clapotis.

We took a break at one point for lunch and really just had a snack and then hit the market once more with a fierceness! On our way out, Cynthia got to pet a llama

and then we took a group shot:

By now, you probably already know who the regulars are, so I’ll be lazy and not post them.

And just as a teaser:

Just take a guess as to when I got those?