I cheated
I’ve been really good about my yarn diet. I mean really good. I said there was a yarn ban in effect, and there was. No new yarn until I work through a good portion of the huge stash, since we’re trying to cut back on spending (what with buying the house, the repairs and restoration we’ll have to do, etc). I did give myself some wiggle room in terms of buying yarn for gifts. If I really wanted to make a gift, and couldn’t find the right yarn in my stash, I would be allowed to buy yarn specifically for that project. Well…works well in theory.
I want to make my teacher/fiction program head a scarf for a holiday gift. I decided it would have to be out of Inca Alpaca. I already have six skeins of Inca Alpaca in my stash. So just use that, right? Thing is, I have this lovely mossy earthy brown-green in my stash, and I had already decided the scarf needs to be blue. Michael wears a lot of blue and looks great in it. So off to Threadbear I went. Rob quickly emailed me a pic of the shades of blue they have in stock for Inca Alpaca and I made my selection. No problem, right? Still in keeping with the yarn ban rules I set up for myself. Well…once I ordered that gorgeous stuff to give away, I felt so selfless and virtuous that I decided I deserved a little something for myself. I added four skeins of Koigu to the order, for socks for me. I couldn’t help it. And THEN because the floodgates had been opened, I trotted over to KnitPicks and ordered the Interlacements Toasty Toes that I’d been drooling over, in Poppy Fields colorway. Sigh. Off the wagon. All I can do is try to be stronger next time. The KnitPicks order isn’t here yet, but because the Threadbear boys are so awesome, I already have their order right here. Nice, hunh?
Yum!! That’s the same blue I used for my dad’s scarf and hat last year (yes, he requested a beret… Between that and the fact that he has always worn Speedos, it’s no wonder he moved to Europe…), and he loved it. If Michael’s coloring is anything like my dad’s (same as mine), he’ll love it.
Posted by: Andrea
Hee! That’s what I do, too. That’s how I ended up spending sixty-four dollars in the yarn shop yesterday – this for the baby, but I need another couple of needles, and maybe this pattern for future reference, and shouldn’t I give the mother a matching scarf to go with the baby sweater? My own mother was in the store with me and gasped audibly when it was totted up. Eh. Little does she know that was NOTHING! Enjoy yr Koigu; love that yellow shade.
Posted by: Rachael
Yum!! That’s the same blue I used for my dad’s scarf and hat last year (yes, he requested a beret… Between that and the fact that he has always worn Speedos, it’s no wonder he moved to Europe…), and he loved it. If Michael’s coloring is anything like my dad’s (same as mine), he’ll love it.
Posted by: Andrea
Hee! That’s what I do, too. That’s how I ended up spending sixty-four dollars in the yarn shop yesterday – this for the baby, but I need another couple of needles, and maybe this pattern for future reference, and shouldn’t I give the mother a matching scarf to go with the baby sweater? My own mother was in the store with me and gasped audibly when it was totted up. Eh. Little does she know that was NOTHING! Enjoy yr Koigu; love that yellow shade.
Posted by: Rachael