January 9, 2012

Yarn Diet Solution

Due to finances, I'm on a yarn diet. It is hard seeing yarn sales and not buying a deal...and it is hard going to fiber festivals and just looking (hence no Vogue Knitting Live for me this year). But I've found a way to feed the fiber beast...use someone else's money!

Our dentist's wife saw my Corrugated Lace Capelet and fell in love with it. She asked if I could knit one for each member of their staff and one for her too - 5 capelets in all. So, I got to go shopping with her money and got some Valley Yarns Berkshire and look at how many pretty skeins of yarn I get to play with!
















Here's the first one I'm working on - it is called Blue Ming and is far more teal than this picture shows...next I'm thinking purple or burgundy.
















Best of all, she's paying me for my time - I don't know if she decided to do this as she knows our life situation or not - she's that kind of sweet person. Doesn't matter...I get to shop for yarn and knit and she gets some lovely capelets.

3 comments:

Beth said...

Wow, that's a lot of knitting! Do you have a deadline? Beautiful colors...

bmom said...

That sounds like a great deal to me!

Lynneb said...

you just never know how a prayer will be answered....you sometimes get not only what you need but what you want. Happy Knitting!