bad to the bone
"ba-ba-ba-baaaaaaaaaaaaad"
Well last night i got very depressed after looking in my checking account. After several large unexpected bills I didn't have nearly as much saved up as I had meant to. I was going to help my husband pay for the flooring, but he told me not to worry about it. So I had $300 left last night, but today I knew was pay day.
So what did I do last night? I cast on for the Kitty Pi bed (aka knitting on nothing) and did a few rows. Put that down, realized I left my Dale book at work and wrote myself an email to remember to bring it home because tonight.
Okay so how was I bad? Well after I realized I didn't have my Chamonix pattern and I couldn't swatch or anything useful, and plus I was very tired I decided to do a little shopping.
Oh yeah and how the shopping spree started was on the kpixie site, I ran across something I had seen in Spin Off and wanted for a while now. All you orange chibi owners can drool over this :)
I can't show you the one I got because they removed it from the website. I am wondering if I bought the last one. Once you go to the buy pages the colored ones are gone. I got one with little blue butterflies engraved on it.
So then I spoted some beutiful salmon mohair lace weight yarn they had, and then I started looking for a simple begginer lace pattern that I liked. Birch seemed to be the easiest and much to my taste. So that led me to just get Kidsilk Haze because I wanted to make sure it looked just as pretty as everyone elses and you know I'm a chicken about substituting yarn.
Kidsilk Haze Trance #582
Isn't that the prettiest color? LOVE it. I have wanted to try a big lace project for a while. Hey Sarah you out there reading this? You should get this kit too! We could knit it together!
Then of course I had to get Rowan #34 for the pattern
Sweet Georgia's Birch
Knitting Doc's Birch
Escape's Birch
I wanted to show you yarn harlots green one because I love it in the green but I can't access it from here (the word harlot probably lol) so I'll show you Fiberspaces's instead, It's just as pretty but not completed in this photo.
Is anyone else not impressed by the newest Rowan #39?
Also I am super excited because one of the places i called in Maggie Valley called me back today about a pet friendly cabin near the Chataloochee ski area. It works out perfect because it's a weekend I have a friday off for a knitting class in Atlanta. Way cheaper then going to telluride and just what the doctor ordered!
Comments
Amy says;
OMG - I totally wanted that same one - the blue one with the butterflies - for Christmas, but they were SOLD OUT!!!
And I was bad at kpixie too. In a fit of rage I bought the last 4 hanks of silk/alpaca for my Somewhat Cowl and had to brown bag it the rest of this week. I was supposed to wait til after the Olymics and all the knitting frenzy that is surrounding it!
Got paid today though! Going out to eat, desert and everything!
Jan says;
You can see more of this sort of needle case here. Shop is in Perth, Western Australia, but the exchange rate for US$ is particularly good for USA citizens at the moment so price is much cheaper thsan for us. If link doesn't work,it's at the woolshack.com and go to accessories.
http://woolshack.com/accessories.htm?action=detail&ID=123