Little Victories
Knitting group did not seem to be there when I stopped by Panera tonight. So I swung by St. Vincent de Paul for a quick troll through. I picked up a couple of unworn summer weight shirts, one 100% linen, and then prowled through the crafty bin and picked up a bag of highly promising-looking yarn. Highly promising is right. It was clearly meant to be a sock-making kit from the (sadly, now defunct) Local Yarn Store -- a pair of pre-wound skeins, one larger, for the main body of the socks, plus a smaller, for contrast toe-and-heel, plus a sock pattern and a business card, all nicely bundled together in a fancy gift bag. The larger skein still had its original wrapper in the middle. It's hand-painted, DK weight superwash merino yarn, thank you very much. (And for non-yarn people, it also had the original price on the wrapper -- $26 for the skein.) Anyone wanna guess what I paid? Two. Bucks.
And it's pristine. This stuff is so well kept, it still has that lovely, wooly, yarn store smell to it. Oh, boy, fancy sock yarn.
And it's pristine. This stuff is so well kept, it still has that lovely, wooly, yarn store smell to it. Oh, boy, fancy sock yarn.