A Monday Road Trip
Monday I visited my friend Deb (Scarlet Zebra). It’s quite a drive, but worth it. We find a place to have lunch where they will let us sit and do show-and-tell for a while. I brought my Heels and Toes Gazette to show her my latest published pattern, and she showed me (among other things) a quilt she is making for a show, in part using some hand-dyed fabrics she made.
She lives between Flint and Port Huron, so I was passing by less than 10 minutes from Elaine’s Yarn Shop (owned/run by Marj, go figure) in Davison. I enjoy that shop so I stopped by, and even ran into a knitter from Lansing who recognized me from a Yarn for Ewe knit-in. How cool is that?
At Elaine’s, I got two balls of Patons Kroy Socks yarn (right two skeins in photograph). The colors are almost identical to those in the Trampoline sox I just finished for myself, but the yarn is different. Trampoline is a stretch yarn with more nylon. This is a more standard sock yarn. I’ve heard folks on the Socknitters email list say they like this yarn but I’ve never knit with it. We’ll see how it goes. I’m sure I’ll enjoy the colors: Navy, turquoise, purple and grass green. Very nice.
On the way home I realized I had time to get to Yarn for Ewe before they closed. So off I went to see my friends there! Marlene O. was there, and so was Sarah, and a good solid handful of customers to boot.
I’m really looking at their Manos del Uruguay yarn, which is handspun and hand-dyed in Uruguay. I’m sure it’s the same yarn as the Ralph Loren sweater I picked up in Florida last week. If I unravel that sweater and buy some of the yarn from Yarn for Ewe, I could have a beautiful, warm, colorful sweater. If I felt like knitting a sweater, that is! Or maybe I could make a good felted bag? I have those gift certificates, and the Manos is a luxury I probably would not choose to afford if it were out of my own spending plan… but what a great way to spend a gift certificate? I’m pondering the possibilities before I dive in, but it would be great. I bet it would be pretty in Entrelac, but I don’t think I want to purl that much, not a sweater anyway.
But for this visit, I got two balls of Steinbach Wolle Eroica in greens and blues. It’s a wool/acrylic yarn that says it can be washed at 86F/30C, so I am going to make some sox for me! It looks to maybe be a sportweight so maybe it will knit up fast. (The balls I got this time are at the left of the photo, and the ball at the bottom I got to experiment with for a project I never did, so I’ll use it to test wash/dry the yarn and see what happens before I dive in.)
I also got the new Knitters magazine. I love reading the stories of people… there is an Irish designer… Maggie (oh drat, lost her last name here for a minute) who is profiled in the magazine and I enjoyed that story immensely.
When I got home, I started a new dyeing session that I hope will last a few days. I started with some alpaca/wool blend and am going to do some more Cushy ColorSport very soon. Such fun!
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