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Monday, July 16, 2007

The Yarn Harlot has posted several times about how sometimes a yarn doesn't want to follow the plan you have picked out for them. I understood, but not as fully and completely as I do after the epic Koigu journey.

PART ONE

It all started two years ago when my cousin announced that she was pregnant with her second child. I had started knitting a year previously, and knew that this would be my first opportunity to create a beautiful heirloom that would be cherised for generations to come. I did not have a plan, but I knew that I would be knitting the infamous Big Bad Baby Blanket from SnB.

A few weeks later, during Christmas break, I found myself at one of Winnipeg's best yarn stores. They were having their annual New Year's sale, and they were selling Koigu at a discount. KOIGU AT A DISCOUNT!!!! My fate was sealed as I fondled and fell for six lucious hanks of variagated blue. I paid no attention to the fact that the store only had six hanks, and I needed eight. Koigu. At. A. Discount. How hard would it be to find two hanks of the same colour and dyelot?

Apparently quite hard. After returning home, I let my search for the two remaining hanks slide for several months. In the Spring, I decided it was about time to finally buy them. I looked at all the links that I had recorded on my computer. It was all gone, the entire population had been purchased.

Shit.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

I know, I know. I haven't blogged in quite a while, but that stops now. The reason why I wasn't blogging, is because I wasn't knitting regularly. No knitting = no posts.

I seem to be suffering a serious case of Startupitis. I keep dropping projects because I either get frustrated or bored, and start new ones. Then I get frustrated or bored, and....you get the idea.

I'm currently working on the new STR sock club pattern for July. I can't rave enough about this club, I am so glad that I signed up. The patterns are (at least for me) challenging and interesting, and the yarn - impeccable.

(I'll put a photo of my socks here soon)

I think I'm about 1/6 of the way through my first sock, but I love the way the pattern and colours of the yarn combine to look think Phoenix feathers.

The brazilliance of everyone at Blue Moon astonishes me. Well played grrls!

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