Shocking! A post!

I haven't posted on this thing in 8 months! Yeesh! Ravelry is better. But I need to make some notes for my own benefit. This was a YARN-TASTIC week!

Purchased from Webs:
8 sk Berroco Peruvia in granada, $7.50/ea (for Mom's tilted duster, she's paying me back)
8 sk Berroco Seduce in gris-bleu $8/ea (oh wow hope it is as pretty in real life!)
10 sk Lily Chin Park Avenue in olive $3.79/ea (for Minimalist Cardi)

total, with shipping and discount: $138.70 (quite a deal, my friends)

Going to buy from Ana in her destash:
4 and some extra Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece, blue or purple, can't tell (probably purple knowing Ana) - $25
Some Zephyr Jaggerspun wool/silk, mushroomy brown, about 1800 yards, I think, $10ish?

And from knittinmama on Rav:
2 balls RY Classic Cashsoft 4ply in the exact dyelot orange I needed, $15
(so that my 6 balls in stash can become enough to make the Apres-surf hoodie in the Summer IK. Can't believe my luck on this one!)

So if you leave out the yarn for Mom and its $60 price tag, that's $130ish for yarn this week. 25+ skeins of varying yardage (average price $5.20/skein), about 5 projects, magic dyelot matching, helping a friend, and oodles of knitting! Not bad.

So I guess I have pre-spent all of my birthday money, and I still have 26 days to go before it is even here. I'm always in a hurry.

(guilty grin)

Couldn't resist...Knit Picks having a big sale on books, so I ordered Mason Dixon Knitting and a bunch of various yarns. Here's how I have rationalized this purchase:

1. I need to make an afghan for Kari as a housewarming present, and I want to make the Log Cabin blanket from this book. (see, Jen, I'm a copycat too)
2. I would like to try out some of their yarns for future projects.
3. I need some more inexpensive yarns for the baby hat-stravaganza planned for Christmas gifts.
4. And why not, since buying MDK, make some of those nifty dishcloths I keep seeing on blogs, as more Christmas gifts?
5. And if I am going to make washcloths, of course I will need yarn for that.
6. Seriously, do I need to rationalize 13 skeins of yarn plus a book for only $50? That's a lot of bang for my Christmas gift budget buck. And doubles as entertainment budget too.

Rationalizing: That's how it is done, folks.

In other joy-worthy yarny news, this morning Ravelry told me there were 72 people in front of me! I'm poised and ready...

won't be long now!!!

Here's my Ravelry update:

You signed up on July 6, 2007
You are #7673 on the list.
370 people are ahead of you in line.
14044 people are behind you in line.
33% of the list has been invited so far

And I bought (sort of) yarn yesterday! (squee!) Gift certificate to LYS + babysitter = Rowan Kidsilk Haze and Sublime Kid Mohair. I don't know what they are going to be, but mmm...so soft...

Stuck in my patterns.

I've been stuck in my patterns. My brain doesn't work so I keep screwing up easy things like counting and ribbing. I have frogged the ribbing on the two tone shrug so many times I have lost count. I frogged the Montego Bay scarf, tried a drop stitch pattern and frogged that, and resorted to crochet. Now that too has been abandoned. (I really hate to purl so I am going to try the pattern with knitting the wrong side rows.) I would have to mail the dang thing on Friday if it is to get there by Susan's birthday. But I think I have been barking up the wrong tree anyways. Susan is a brand new crocheter. I will buy her some cool yarn and maybe a book instead. Why deny her the pleasure of actually making something herself?

I'm determined to finish the shrug this week too, since I have the "cast on" itch again. Thanks to birthday money and gift certificates there are 11 skeins of Berroco Bonsai on the way for a Bonsai tunic, and a ball winder too! (Yay for Jen going in with me on that.) I can't even tell you how much yarn made it into my virtual shopping carts that I had to talk myself out of. I would fill the cart, go do something else to take the edge off, then come back and delete it once I had become sane. Otherwise I might be in the poorhouse right now.