We Have (a Smidgen of) Fleece Artist!
The other day I went to LK Yarns, ostensibly to buy some needles, but really more to fondle drool over admire yarn. If you are able to walk by Fleece Artist Curlylocks or Fleece Artist Handmaiden Sea Silk without stroking it, then you are not freakin’ human.
But how does an unemployed bum grad student manage to afford any Fleece Artist? More easily than I expected — when there are little Fleece Artist odds and ends available for $6.00 each, even I can bring home a little piece of heaven.
I think it’s merino, but I could easily be wrong, as it is too wee to have a label. I’m almost positive it’s in the Nova Scotia colourway, though. There were other colours I liked a bit more, but I want to (eventually) make something for my boyfriend’s mother out of this. His parents live in Saskatchewan, so I want to be all like, OMG I made this from Nova Scotian yarn in Nova Scotia tartan colours!!!!!!1 Only less chatspeak-y. I don’t know what I’ll make with it, though, or when I will gain the ability to knit with yarn that skinny without going insane.
Over the past two days I read all the archives over at Virgin Wool. In some ways, Mary seems to be my knitting twin — she first learned to knit around the same time as I did, she started a knitblog soon after she learned to knit, one of her early posts is about the Klutz Knitting kit, she is still most comfortable knitting rectangles, and she is obsessed with turquoise, teal, aqua, and any other type of blueness. I would think we were separated at birth, knittingwise, except that she has made oodles and oodles of scarves in the time that it took me to knit, um, one scarf. So I’d better get cracking. Luckily, reading Mary’s blog doesn’t really make me feel ashamed of my laziness, more like inspired to be less lazy.
Work on the Little Blue Change Purse continues, but is not particularly interesting to talk about. Maybe it will be once I attempt the buttonhole. Who knows?
March 26th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
I’m so honored that you took the time to read my blog! Thanks so much for the shout-out and for commenting. I love the layout and colors of your blog by the way — TEAL! (I wish all the cute blog titles like “KnitKitten” and “KnittyKitty” and “Knittin’ Kitten” weren’t already taken, ‘cuz I would have used one of those — my family’s nickname for me is “Kitty”, so it would have been perfect! No matter — I was meant to write “Virgin Wool”, and thus it will stay titled as such!)
I’m ESPECIALLY jealous that not only are you in beautiful Nova Scotia but you are also so close to Fleece Artist and Handmaiden and all that gorgeous yarn! How can you resist it?