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April 25, 2005
Long awaited, much anticipated
Here's what I got in Canada:
Some of this is unallocated, so if you have any suggestions you know where to stick em (in the comments, of course).
Let me break it down for you.
The big red skein is Cascade 220 which I got in The Knit Cafe, along with two skeins of Shelridge Farm Soft Touch Ultra (the lighter of the two green handpainteds, on the right). How dumb, to get one skein of Cascade 220. What was I thinking? There really aren't that many patterns that require just ONE skein of anything, I dont even have enough to make The Buttonhole Bag.
The orange, pink and white are all Jawoll sock yarn. The orange is Jawoll cotton and is even as we speak in the process of being turned into 'Go With the Flow' socks from Summer IK. I am falling in love with them in the same way as I did my red and white footies.
The variegated blue cotton, is Lang Tissa, which became this. I've still got about 2.5 balls left, which is an inconvenient amount. This, and the Jawoll, came from Romni.
Speaking of Clapotis, Mother asked me to knit her one, so that's ongoing. It's in black, Jaeger Aqua, which is wonderfully sheeny but extremely BLACK, and it is such a severe colour to wear against the face. I hope she's not going through a Goth phase. Oh dear.
From Knitomatic, two skeins of Koigu (with which I think I'm going to make some socks just like Ashley's) and finally two unexciting to you but exciting to me balls of Cascade Fixation in black. These are either going to be mixed with the lovely blue/white/green Cascade that Lori my Sockapalooza pal sent me to make eyepopping stripes (stripes, again), or will be a pair of lacy footlets.
Oh and the red and white stripey monstrosity behind? that's the Hoser Hat.
Posted by Amelia at April 25, 2005 08:00 AM
Comments
Yay! socks like mine--that means I am totally justified in copying your stripey socks. You know, you couls still make the buttonhole bag--just a little smaller. I've also see people mix in other wools and it came out looking just as nice. Also, now you have the American friends who would be happy to send you some more Cacade in exchange for English chocolate or some such thing...
Posted by: Ashley at April 25, 2005 03:35 PM
1 ball of cascade 220 is exactly enough for a felted bag called "Sophie" from Magknits.
Posted by: erin at April 26, 2005 04:04 AM