Yarn pr0n
I took a photo of all the things I got at the yarn liquidation sale (scroll down if you missed the story, it was exciting -- in a yarny kind of way). Actually, looking at the photo I realize I left a couple things out, so imagine there's a few more patterns and some sock needles too.
Clockwise from the top left we have a stack of out-of-date knitting magazines, patterns, books, roving of all kinds (for spinning and needle-felting), Dale of Norway wool yarn in purple and natural (for making a Norwegian-style sweater), Frog Tree Alpaca in raspberry, gray, heather, purple, and teal, for making a Fair Isle sweater, more Dale of Norway in Gray for making the tangled yoke cardigan from Interweave Knits, circus-colored sock yarn, purple Malabrigo (mmmmm!!!!!), some fancy Japanese yarn, and wool carders so I can spin some yarn, should I ever run out.
I am appalled at my own gluttony, but at the same time I want to roll around in all my nice yarn. Especially the alpaca.
In related news, I finished my socks. Actually, I finished them a while ago (having to visit horrible grandparents = good opportunity to knit, see, there is a silver lining to every cloud, especially if you are easily amused) but in case you live on another planet, we're having a massive heat wave here, so modeling wool socks wasn't really on my to-do list. In fact, I had to take this picture in front of the air conditioner.
When I started on the second one, I realized I'd done the double decreases on the first one all wrong. That's why on the left one they look all nice and smooth and flat, and on the right one they look odd and twisty. Oh well, it gives them character, and I'm not too hung up on things matching anyway.
Clockwise from the top left we have a stack of out-of-date knitting magazines, patterns, books, roving of all kinds (for spinning and needle-felting), Dale of Norway wool yarn in purple and natural (for making a Norwegian-style sweater), Frog Tree Alpaca in raspberry, gray, heather, purple, and teal, for making a Fair Isle sweater, more Dale of Norway in Gray for making the tangled yoke cardigan from Interweave Knits, circus-colored sock yarn, purple Malabrigo (mmmmm!!!!!), some fancy Japanese yarn, and wool carders so I can spin some yarn, should I ever run out.
I am appalled at my own gluttony, but at the same time I want to roll around in all my nice yarn. Especially the alpaca.
In related news, I finished my socks. Actually, I finished them a while ago (having to visit horrible grandparents = good opportunity to knit, see, there is a silver lining to every cloud, especially if you are easily amused) but in case you live on another planet, we're having a massive heat wave here, so modeling wool socks wasn't really on my to-do list. In fact, I had to take this picture in front of the air conditioner.
When I started on the second one, I realized I'd done the double decreases on the first one all wrong. That's why on the left one they look all nice and smooth and flat, and on the right one they look odd and twisty. Oh well, it gives them character, and I'm not too hung up on things matching anyway.