Yarnage

Because you never can have enough Cabin Cove Mercantile yarn ...

Laceweight, 850+ yards, 100% Merino wool. And it's not really orange, it's strawberry. I've decided I'm only going to buy yarn in colors that photograph well from this day forward. Either that or start taking pictures in natural light. I really am the world's worst photographer. A fact I'm reminded of whenever I cruise over to Dave's blog. Anyway, I have no idea what I'll make with this but who buys yarn with a plan?

There's a new yarn store in town! Hooray! Purlescence Yarn has opened in downtown Sunnyvale and it's lovely. I went there yesterday to check things out and found this.

I do love baby alpaca. This is Alpaca With A Twist's "Baby Twist." 100% baby alpaca, 50 gram balls with 110 yards per ball, DK weight sorta. And the best part? Only $6.85 a ball. Can someone tell me why alpaca is so inexpensive? Once again I've failed to capture the beauty of this yarn, think dark hunter green. With just a bit of a sheen. Hey, that rhymes! OK, it's early, hush. I actually bought four balls and figured I'd make this ...

This is Knitspot's "Opens and Folds Scarf." I adore cabled scarves, really I do. But a little monotonous to knit sometimes. Enter this lovely pattern that combines LACE and CABLES. Now that's inspired pattern design if you ask me. So I did a few rows using the Baby Alpaca on US 6's and it was a little tight. Went up to US 8's and it was too loose. Also, and this should be obvious to everyone but me, the yarn was just too damn dark for any of the pattern to really stand out. Like hello, duh, April.

So I rooted around in the ol' stash (proving once again why it's important to have more yarn than you'll ever be able to knit) and found two balls of Rowan's "Felted Tweed" which is working out quite nicely. Pictures when I get a bit further into it. Crappy pictures, but pictures nevertheless. Enjoy your Sunday.