the scary day...
So, today was that day of the year, and it was a particularly frightening one. See, my parents had their thirtieth wedding anniversary this past March. And considering that I was already on the way when they got married, that might tell you just how old I am now. And that's kinda scary.
Not so scary is the fact that Mom and I went on a bus trip down to Schaumburg, IL with a local yarn shop today... to go to Stitches Midwest, a super huge knitting/crochet/fiber arts convention. We spent half the day yarn shopping. It was really, really awesome.
I don't have nice quality pics just yet (it's completely dark outside, and I have pretty lousy lighting in my room), but this is my haul.
Central would be my Japanese amigurumi book - the patterns are absolutely adorable! Clockwise starting with the kinda shiny purpleish one to the right of the book, we have a variegated laceweight tencel, a free brown New Zealand wool/possum blend, brown crochet thread with a sparkly blue thread running through it, two skeins of Noro Sekku (laceweight), laceweight wool (inside), pink, gray, and white sock yarn (outside), a purple, white, and bright lime green sock yarn, and a rainbow Zauberball (long color repeat German sock yarn wound into a ball).
Mom got some recycled sari silk, a bag of heavily discounted brown silk balls, a super fine lighter-than-laceweight flax/something blend, and a free wool/possum blend like my brown one, only gray (there wasn't much left to choose from when we got there).
So yeah, that was how I spent this rather significant day. Oh, and the entire bus sang to me on the way home. *blush*
Not so scary is the fact that Mom and I went on a bus trip down to Schaumburg, IL with a local yarn shop today... to go to Stitches Midwest, a super huge knitting/crochet/fiber arts convention. We spent half the day yarn shopping. It was really, really awesome.
I don't have nice quality pics just yet (it's completely dark outside, and I have pretty lousy lighting in my room), but this is my haul.
Central would be my Japanese amigurumi book - the patterns are absolutely adorable! Clockwise starting with the kinda shiny purpleish one to the right of the book, we have a variegated laceweight tencel, a free brown New Zealand wool/possum blend, brown crochet thread with a sparkly blue thread running through it, two skeins of Noro Sekku (laceweight), laceweight wool (inside), pink, gray, and white sock yarn (outside), a purple, white, and bright lime green sock yarn, and a rainbow Zauberball (long color repeat German sock yarn wound into a ball).
Mom got some recycled sari silk, a bag of heavily discounted brown silk balls, a super fine lighter-than-laceweight flax/something blend, and a free wool/possum blend like my brown one, only gray (there wasn't much left to choose from when we got there).
So yeah, that was how I spent this rather significant day. Oh, and the entire bus sang to me on the way home. *blush*