Even though I feel like I’ll be strong with my commitment to not buy yarn in 2020, I feel like I feel before I start a diet – eat everything I can find so I won’t be wanting anything bad once I start the diet!
Eat, Sleep, Knit has their mystery discount Black Friday sale going on today. I never get more than a 10% discount so it makes it more cost effective for me to shop other places that have more than 10% off but I did have some credit there so I did a little shopping there and a little shopping at a couple of other shops.
Here’s what I bought, and I’ll show pictures when it arrives, and during the next year, if/when I do fall off the wagon, I’ll share it here. I’m going to hold myself accountable and you all can help me!
Orders placed today:
- Malabrigo Arroya – Colors Cereza and Plomo – Those are the colors I used for Addie’s teacher’s cowl and I think they went so well together and were perfect for the school colors so I ordered a couple more skeins of those for future teacher gifts.
- Malabrigo Dos Tierras – Colors Pearl Ten, Polar Moon and Cereza – This will be to make Grey Fox and it will give me a gray and red sweater to wear when I’m with Addie.
- Malabrigo Washted – Colors Cereza and Plomo – OK . . maybe I’m a big hung up on this red/gray combo but I do love the cowl I made for Addie’s teacher and I can’t wear the same sweater every day when I’m in MO! I’ve Made three Carabe sweaters but none for myself so this one will be for me.
- Malabrigo Dos Tierras – Color Frank Ochre. This is not a good color for my skin tone but I love it. It’s been an ongoing battle within my head about whether or not I should buy it but, with the extended yarn diet approaching, I figured it was time to do it . . so I did it!
- Harrisville Shetland – This is the new rustic type wool ESK is carrying. I’ve never used it but wanted to try it so I bought a few skeins of that to try. A lot of the more popular colors were already sold out so I tried to choose a few colors that would go together – tan/brown; lilac/purple; a light and dark green. I’ll make hats and mitts with it so that will give me a feel for how I like using it.
Looks like it was a Malabrigo love fest today! I do like it; it’s relatively inexpensive as far as hand dyed type yarns go so . . there . . I’m done with shopping and I can get back to knitting and making turkey bone soup!
vivoaks says
Thanks for the reminder!! I fixed dinner at my daughter’s yesterday and brought the bones home for soup! I had hubby bring them home in his car (I’d gone early by myself to get dinner started) and told him to just leave the bones in his car. I’d forgotten about making the bone broth, but your post reminded me!! Those bones are still in the car! It’s 32 degrees outside, so I knew they’d be fine in the car. Guess it’s time for me to go get it and get to work!! 🙂
Nelle Coursey says
You are a very brave woman asking us to hold you accountable! Who is going to hold me accountable!! We were leaving Georgetown today and Pat asked me if I wanted to go by the Knitting Kup today and he would stay in the car. I said no, let’s just go on home I can come the next time we come to town!!! He really liked the yarn I bought there when I went in October. Can you believe I passed up a chance like this!! But I was so tired. Got up yesterday at 7 and drove to Georgetown, then got up early this morning and drove to Shiner, then all the way back to Georgetown and Brownwood! Still got home around 4:30 pm! I thin I may go to bed early tonight!! But we had so much fun with Alicia!
Susan Nixon says
And you didn’t even have to stand in line!