I am moving this week, so the last week or so that I was in Halifax, I made sure to go to Tangled Skeins, LK Yarns, and The Loop, because who knows when I might be back next?

At Tangled Skeins, I purchased some Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Bulky in Orange You Glad. The colour I really wanted for what I have in mind was Autumn Harvest, but this was my last chance to use my 15% student discount, so I figure that if I don’t capitulate and use the Orange You Glad for this project (not that I have any plans to start it soon), well, then I’ll just use it for something else. Fifteen percent discounts are good.

At LK Yarns, I bought a skein of Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool in colour 26, which is a hot pink.

Have you ever noticed that there are some colours that you would stay the hell away from in other areas of your life, but you are inexplicably drawn to them in yarn? No? It’s just me, then? Well, anyway, I’m not a big fan of hot pink the rest of the time, but I was inexplicably drawn to this. The plan for this one is to (eventually) make Branching Out from Knitty. Again, I am in no hurry.

I made sure that my trip to The Loop was last Sunday, to coincide with the launch of Lucy Neatby’s new knitting DVDs. Not that I actually planned for sure to buy a DVD, because I am perpetually broke (you’ll notice I don’t even consider buying both of them), but I figured it would be a good time to go there. Eventful. (And with door prizes, but my brother and I both won really nice door prizes at a Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince release shindig we went to last year, so I figure that’s the end of our door prize luck for at least the next ten years.) I capitulated, however, when I was watching some of the DVD on the TV there… it’s just so big compared to those knitting videos you can find online. Look how clear it is! Which isn’t the only reason I bought it, but at the time, that reason felt really important to me.

Since I am shy, I eavesdropped on Lucy Neatby talking to another woman. (I am at least polite enough that I informed them I was eavesdropping.) I had actually tuned out and was staring at someone else’s very cool shirt (saying something like “I have two needles. You have two eyes.” and I forget the last line, but the gist is obvious) when Lucy Neatby asked me if I minded being a knit stitch.

“No,” I said. “What do I have to do?”

What I had to do was link arms with her in a demonstration of how contented knit stitches fit together. I make a useful prop. Although so could anyone with at least one arm.

I got her to sign my DVD case, and also asked, “Can I take a picture for the sporadically updated blog, or is that weird?”

Obviously it’s not all that weird, because here’s the picture. I knew it wasn’t really all that weird, but as I’ve mentioned before, I’m shy and thought I would be embarrassed. I wasn’t, though. She is cool and I wish I hadn’t had to immediately pack my new DVD and most of the yarn that is in Stash Baby as soon as I got home. But I did, and the vast majority of my belongings are currently residing in a different province than I am.

I also bought Cascade 220 in black. Although I fell in love with a teal colour, I have no plan for it, and I do have a plan that involves the black. I looked at many lovely things there, including of course Celestial Yarns in many different colours, but near-perpetual brokeness makes it hard enough to justify the stuff I had already bought in the past week, let alone any more.

I am finishing up the flap of the small cotton purse. In the pattern, there’s no way to fasten it. Which is dumb. I can easily add a button, so I’m going to do that, but I might also line the purse, and if I put in a lining, I’m going to make my mom help me, since I’m in Cape Breton with my parents for the weekend.

Although I would have dearly loved to extend the slow-but-steady yarn crawl even further by checking out Baadeck Yarns while I am in Cape Breton, that won’t actually be possible. Sigh. I hope to make a trip there the next time I’m in the area.

Sunglasses case? What sunglasses case?

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