Swift Happiness...

Ah....Swift Happiness.... I ordered a yarn swift from Amazon. I am super happy with it. It was inexpensive, easy to set up and a breeze to use...
I can't believe I am finally getting it all together. I just need a few more things like sock blockers, better organization....

Also I have to say that my knitting ladies helped me have a great Bday, which was last Monday, and I got more goodies!!! Some lovely Koigu yarn which I already cast on the Willamette Hop Socks with it's lovely purpleness. And I also received the wonderful Inspired Fair Isle Knits from another lovely lady, one who gave me the Purple rain for my previous Firestarters. She knows me so very well, in fact they all do. I love those lovely ladies! Thanks to you all :)

TTFN

Yarn score...

Score!!! Mega Score!!! Gooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!!
  So for the last six months or so I have been cruising Craigslist for yarn and knitting notions, just out of curiousity. Not many people that I found who posted anything had much of anything good. And if they did they were usually in another county or too far away for me, a non-driver, to justify the attemp to get to them. Until last week. I stumbled across this posting simply stated "Yarn....lots of it..." and boy was there. At least 15 very large totes of it, a few baskets, 20-30 books, and notions including circulars, dpns, wooden straits, it was pure knitters heaven. This poor fellow's mother had unfortunately been hit with major health problems and would not be returning back to her knitting world and he was helping her clear away the clutter. She had a beautiful collection, lots of high ended stuff like Malabrigo, Blue Moon Fiber Arts ( I actually met Tina!!), Lorna's Laces, tons of stuff from Knit Picks and soooo much more. A large portion of her collection was cotton, which much of it is still available as I simply have not the room for all of it though i was very very tempted to clean him out!!

Well I cleaned 'em out pretty good....

All mine..my pretties...my...precioussssss....

I was giddy by the time I got it all home and on my floor. I scored big time and am very very grateful to the wonderful lady who put this all together. I pray her health gets better, that she and her son find peace in this world and I hope she is happy that this yarn has found a very good and loving home. Big plus is about half of it is sock yarn. Yay!!!


  On another...odd note. I was at the new library the other day across the street from my apartment and while perusing the adult fiction section I ran across this book... While My Pretty One Knits. I read it in about six hours, which is strange as I usually read at night in bed now since it is difficult to hold a book and knitting needles at the same time. i really liked it. I am not much of a mystery reader but hey it was about knitting and yarn and yarn shops and was really good. There are even a few recipes, patterns and tips in the back. It appears to be the first in a knitting related series so I will be keeping my eyes out for others. Who knew that there were knitting books on the fiction shelf. Double Score!!!

TTFN