Yarn seriously excites me! My credit card bill is seriously NOT going to excite Vince! Well, he will get excited but probably in quite a different way from how I am excited. 🙂
I think I mentioned in an earlier post that one of my plans for 2018 is wanting to buy more from indie dyers – small dyers and Etsy shops, rather than the retail shops. I must be practicing for the new year.
One thing leads to another with this thing called “the internet”! Does it really matter how I got from here to there … yes, it does because my guess is that this same thing happens to all of us and I want someone . . anyone to confirm that I’m not the only one who does this. Make me feel better about my bad behavior! 🙂
Yesterday I was on the Boo-Knits Ravelry board, reading all I could about tussah lace, mulberry lace, wild lace, the reason why I need silk lace yarn and not a combination of wool and silk. I was reading and reading and thinking I should be getting up and putting clothes in the dryer or doing something constructive but I kept reading. You do that too, right? Oh . . good!
Then someone mentioned something about “houndknitter” . . either a project she had knitted or yarn they had gotten from her, and I clicked on the link to her projects page and I have never seen so many gorgeous lace shawls . . stop me in my tracks! Those are things she’s done .. not things she wants to do! She’s knitted all those! When I got to this one, I had to stop and buy the pattern, which is There and Back Lace Shawl. And the yarn she used . . I had to do it and I had to do it right then. I clicked on the yarn she had used, Wendy’s Wonders – MCN Gradient. Amazing! Beyond amazing! I bought a couple of skeins.
Wendy’s Wonders Yarns
I went to bed. I kept thinking about it. I got up this morning and ordered a few more skeins. Yes, Etsy shopping is good!
Unless something else comes along that distracts me, and we all know how unlikely that is <G>, I’m going to start knitting this project the minute the yarn arrives. Houndknitter made it in less than 10 days AND she used 850 beads. I’m not sure I can sleep until this yarn arrives.
In the end, I joke about buying too much yarn. I really do buy too much yarn but how nice is it to have something I love so much, and get so excited about and look so forward to the package arriving so I can get started. Priceless . . well . . that’s going to be my argument to Vince when those new packages of yarn arrive. 🙂
Joyce says
I had to chuckle when you said Vince would be excited in a completely different way…
Linda in TX says
Yes, I do that. And that. And that, too. Isn’t that normal people behavior?
sharkiecat says
Not to feed your stash or anything, but have you seen Serendipidye? She lives a few miles away from me, and it is so hard to resist showing up at her door to see what she’s got in her work room. Her etsy shop is https://www.etsy.com/shop/Serendipidye
Judy Laquidara says
Had not seen it before your message. I’ll be watching that site. Thanks!
marcille irwin says
Guilty!
Diana says
Well I totally understand. I always said all the stuff I was buying was for my retirement. Since I was forced into retirement (long story) I have been recently working on quilts and other sewing projects. Finished a few ufo’s and startde and finished a few others. DH volunteers at the local PBS station and wanted to donate something for their auction. No problem, went thru stash and came up with a Christmasy wall hanging – no fabric needed to be bought (but I did have to buy more batting recently).
Carolyn says
I have a Knitting problem… not quite like yours…. I have Carpel Tunnel in my LEFT hand and when I knit it cramps up on me something fierce. So I have not been knitting….. any help out there?????