March 17, 2008

• ZOMG as an understatement

  This just found its way into my home:
  

  It was dropped of as a donation to the preschool, with the idea that kids would play with it.  My director noticed that it was far too “good” for three-year-olds to use as wigs and pirate ships and art projects, so she passed it along to me.  SWEET!!!!

  I haven’t even looked  at it, but from first glance I’m seeing some Brown Sheep, Lamb’s Pride…good stuff.

  After a quick lunch I’ll be diving in my new yarn and, of course, posting an exhaustive summary here.  What a fun day!

  Happy St. Patrick’s day, one and all   I’ll be back later!

  ::EDIT::
  3 hours later…57 skeins of yarn sorted.  And a photo taken of each and every one (don’t worry, I’ll spare you ).

  Haven’t you always wanted a big pile of surprise yarn on your living room floor? I know I have!
  

  I dove in headfirst.  Oh baby!
  

  I spent the first hour or so sorting the yarn–finding out what eactly I had, re-winding the ends of messy skeins, picking off bits of fuzz and dust.

  When I was all done and my butt was numb from sitting on the hard floor, I had this to show for it:
  

  So I did what any reasonable person would do:  I rolled in it:
  
  ‘Twas ecstacy.

  Then I licked it:
  
  (ok, just pretending).

  Then I got tired, so I took a nap among it:
  

  Then I woke up, and cataloged it all on Ravelry

  I’ll spare y’all the exhaustive list of what what all I got, but I would like to share some of my favorites:

  Lamb’s Pride Bulky:
  
  I shit you not, I almost bought this precise yarn a couple weeks ago at Stitch Knitch’s sale.  Glad I waited This shall become a hat, methinks.  Or something else equally delightful.  Suggestions?

  Soho Bulky Tweeds:
  
  Fingerless gloves?

  Four colors of Brown Sheep Sport Weight (discontinued, like many of these other yarns):
  
  (sorry for the blurry photo).  Those will turn into four pairs of sport weight socks   Before I hit the Rav…what are your favorite sport weight sock patterns?

  And a sweater’s worth of Brown Sheep Nature Spun (worsted):
  
  980 yards.  That should be enough for a sweater, right?  Maybe I’ll find a nice one with 3/4 sleeves, a v-neck…
  And the color?  I love it   It’s photographing a bit more purply than it really is.  It’s really a deep midnight (not blackish) blue.  <3.

  Think I have enough to eke out a Yosemite?  If I do the bottoms of the sleeve and of the hem in a contrasting color?

  The rest of the yarns are mostly assorted nigh-quality acrylic blend worsteds, and about 15 skeins of Reynolds Lopi in assorted colors.

  One thing I want to do to thank my boss for giving me all of this, is make her a pair of Fetchings.  There’s some Plymouth Encore in the lot which is begging to be turned into them

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