Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Saturday, December 13, 2003
Eyelash? ribbon? Foofy stuff - I'd rather knit boogers.
In other words, color me disappointed.
In other words, color me disappointed.
So I needed to find a thing of sock yarn and I wanted to look at some yarn for a new project I'm working on designing. I was near a new yarn shop and I thought "hey, lets stop in". I walked in and it just didn't have a comfortable atmosphere. I got strange looks (ok I'm used to that at some stores, but not yarn stores, they like everyone) but much of the yarn was foofy stuff. all you see when you walk in is eyelash yarn, ladder yarn, ribbon yarn. You go a little further and there is a big rack of rowan stuff and vitadinni. Then mohair and more foofy yarn and finally some basic 75% acrylic stuff - it was pretty but certainly not what I was hoping for. Then I saw sock yarn (usually my weakness) and they had Sockotta and Jaeger. hhhmmm ok. Not much that I was interested in, not much for patterns, no homey yarn store feel that I have become accustomed to. Yes I like some of the Rowan and some of the Berroco and Vitadini but I can't afford most of it and there were no prices that I could see. A few things here and there had some pricing and I could tell by those items that the prices were going to be way more than I would have to pay at Halcyon or Quilt Essentials. This new store (I couldn't even tell you the name of it) was just not at all what I wanted. I'm sure it met the need for the usual clients, once I looked up and actually looked at who was shopping in there, not to be mean but it looked like the "I knit because its fashionable" crowd. If I ever wanted to pay high prices for some popular yarns, I will go to this store. Otherwise I will just keep going to my usual haunts. ----now that I've said this do you think I'll read it again and maybe avoid this shop... but it has yarn..... I wanna go in.....(sometimes I'm so whiney)
On a lighter note I gave my mom her slippers. I'm so bad at waiting, I just couldn't help it. She liked them. She wouldn't even put them down. She was amazed at the process. I think she might be starting to like the idea of learning to knit. I'll get her hooked yet. bwaaahaaahaaa
I'm falling so much in love with my Anj-made scarf that I'm thinking of froggin my Sonnet (done in soft soft merino wool) and re-doing something similar in Classic Elite Gatsby. This is amazing to me that I'm willing to do this as I hate to frog. I'll have to take a picture and maybe take a poll on lj or something - see what people think of the cardigan so far - I have the body done but was thinking of working on the sleeves to finish it to wear at xmas parties. Now I'm not so sure. I have to go try it on again, yes now.