Okay…. so I may have toured a few yarn shops on vacation.  And I may have followed that up with a mini yarn crawl on Sunday. So what’s your point?

Wanna see the goods?

Our first contestant is…. Periwinkle.  A lovely handpainted wool from Blue Moon Fiber Arts  in the colorway Panzanite.  Periwinkle’s hobbies are….. sorry.  Couldn’t help myself.

I have no big exotic plans for this other than making myself a big wooly booley (bully?) scarf.  My friend Karen from the knitting group informed me upon my arrival in Washington that often you can be plenty warm with a light jacket as long as you have a warm scarf around your neck.  I intend to use this yarn and a snazzy denim jacket to test that theory.  I’ll be wet (this is the Seattle area afterall) but hopefully I’ll be cute and warm.

Next up…. sock yarn!

One skein of trekking color #77 (I hate when companies do that.  Name a color by a number.  No originality!).  And the other skein is the awesome Socks that Rock in the colorway of Farmhouse.  I’m dying to break into that STR!

Although my lace project for the Amazing Lace has been a complete disaster (no, its not finished.  No, I still don’t want to talk about it!).  Still, when I saw this I could not help myself.  This is Egyptian Merc. Cotton from Blue Heron Yarns in the colorway Dusk.  I will make something lacy with this.  I will not mess it up.  It may be the last thing I do on this planet but as God as my witness (sorry…. having a Scarlet O Hara moment.  It’ll pass in just a minute.)

Here’s my brand spankin’ new and freshly autographed Yarn Harlot book along with the makings for a cool felted bag.  The pattern calls for two strands of worsted weight yarn but they had a sample in the shop of a bag made with one strand of Cascade and one strand of Flora novelty yarn (I can’t believe I bought novelty yarn.  I am not a novelty yarn kinda girl!) from Trendsetter Yarns.  It looked so cool I just had to make one.  I got a really cool button for it as well.  This might actually be a Christmas gift for someone.

This is Cascade Luna that will be used right quick like for a baby gift.  Notice that the colors look very Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruit-ish.

Finally, before I left on vacation I ordered some roving from Sandy’s Palette .  I don’t remember the name of the colorway but the fiber is Corriedale.  Anyway I started spinning some of it this week.  I still like the colors but so far it is showing up much more yellow than I would’ve imagined. 

I thought I’d end up with lots of blue and hints of yellow.   I still am such a bad judge as to how these different dyed wools will look once spun.

Well, we decided to not head over to Tacoma tonight and to hang around the house instead.  Little Miss did so well in speech therapy today that her speech therapist was a bit…. speechless.  So, maybe she hasn’t regressed since our vacation.  Maybe I’m just too focused on things. 

I’m hoping we have  a better night tonight.  Little Miss didn’t sleep much of last night (her own personal my-dad-is-out-of-town torture tactic) so needles to say I got a even less sleep than she did.  What fun.  And… as a bonus…. I got to listen to Elmo discuss how to use the potty at three a.m.  Boy Howdy that was a blast…. NOT!  I’m hopeful that she will sleep better tonight.