YARN!

[oceantheorem]

So this is the small skein of alpaca yarn I bought at Winters Gone Farm in Maine (if you click on the picture, and then click on it again, it gets really big so you can read the card). It was an impulse buy, but it was worth every penny. I can't stop holding it! It'll probably have to be the edging on something else, because I only have 125 yards. (Also, ironically, when you buy a skein you get to meet the alpacas, and the only one that didn't come into the barn when we went in was Lucas.) Maybe if I add a ball of the lilac-colored Debbie Bliss alpaca I could make a pair of Mrs. Beetons?
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter05/PATTmrsbeeton.html
Would the black and lilac look good together?

Anyway, I might have to start scanning other things now. I can't believe this didn't occur to me sooner. Who needs a camera when you can just scan stuff?

Comments

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

http://pics.livejournal.com/oceantheorem/pic/00020xd3/

It was on sale and it just wanted to be loved....

[fieryminge.livejournal.com]

Ooh... purdy. If you're unsure about the lilac, you could do the main part in the black and the contrasting in that pink to make it more frilly on the inside. But the pink definitely looks like a bulky weight, so you'd have to work with gauge/needle size on that.

I like the yarns you find!! I still have like $30 left for my crafty stuff... I should go buy more yarn.

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

I think the pink is actually sport weight; it's just got the funny thick bits every inch or so that make it look bulkier.

Oooh, what I would buy with $30...
http://www.yarn-store.com/lornas-laces-knitting-yarn.html
Or better yet,
http://handmaiden.ca/yarn.html
The sea silk or great big sea? I would die for that yarn.
:-P

(AAAHHH! I just looked at the list of retailers that sell HandMaiden yarns--there are none in Connecticut-sad-but there is one in Damariscotta, Maine. I WAS IN DAMARISCOTTA YESTERDAY!! *cries*)