Jofrog is Knitfrog!
October 18 2005
I went to Rhinebeck with a budget. Most people have a dollar amount they are not to go over, I need to allocate money to be spent or else everything is rationalized away and I go home empty handed. I did well though, I didn't go over my limit, but I also used enough to feel good and still had some left over to feel better. Ahh, and then I look at my yarn, and pet my yarn, and all is good! Enough yammering, here it is! My first purchase of the day was from "Times Remembered" from Slate Hill NY. I've been looking at some alpaca yarn for a while now at my LYS to make a simple, oh so soft, cardigan. This was very similar yarn, incredibly soft, and less expensive. Add to that the fact that it came in many more colors, somehow two hanks landed in a bag in exchange for some money and I walked away petting this yarn: Next was "Buckwheat Bridge Angoras". Oh did I enjoy them. They have angora goats and lots of fiber. In the back of their booth, though, was some wonderful yarn. We walked by them at first, but it caught my eye enough that we went back later. This skein will be paired with solid black to be a pair of Fair Isle Mittens. I thought I was going to use the Nordic Mittens pattern from last winter's IK, but after looking at it again, the solid color is the design, not the background, and I think I want these switched. Yes, I could switch them with that pattern, but I really like "Knitting Fair Isle Mittens and Gloves" by Carol Rasmussen Noble, and I can always use another book, right? My last purchase at the festival was from Shelridge Farm. Alison, Lisa, and I all loved this place. Really, it's worth planning a trip to Ontario good. It was amazing. This booth was the point in the day that I turned to Alison and said "I am having SO MUCH FUN!" Their yarns are amazing, their kits have beautiful patterns, they have so many other amazing patterns, made up in their yarn, all around. It was overwhelming, and remember, this is after a day of sensory overload, this is what pushed us over. I didn't want to leave their booth! I ended up with the most amazing green fingering weight yarn for socks: and the pattern for Lucy Neatby's Harlequin Socks. Be aware, if you go to see the pattern, the picture is horrible! I never would have bought the pattern if I hadn't seen this one there, made up in person and not all stretched out. Once again, my enablers showed me this and determined that I must buy the pattern. It's just my type of thing. What can I say, they know me well. As I'm sitting here typing, I'm wearing my pair of beaded socks. I got home and read through the pattern and I can't wait to start! I only wished I'd looked at the real things more closely. Here they are for your viewing pleasure. Don't think that the fun stopped at the fairgrounds though. We left there, took a right and started out for Morehouse Merino's retail store "Sheep's Clothing" to pick up yarn for Dani. Personal shopper, no problem! Five skeins of lace weight, lots of browsing later, this came home with me, and will be going home with Dani later today. What fun it is to spend other people's money on yarn, but it is also a huge responsibility... especially when they say, "something variegated and pretty, you know what I like"! And that brings us to the end of the shopping spree. I had so much fun, even if I'd come home empty handed it still would have been a wonderful weekend with wonderful ladies! Thanks to everyone!Booty Call
The ideas are already flowing.
It's alpaca, so nothing too fancy, but some interest for sure.
Stay tuned.
I hope I did a good job!
