D'oh!
Fortunately, I didn't forget to buy yarn.
This is Cascade Alpaca Lace
in Garnet.
If you're really on the ball, you may have noticed that I bought almost 3,500 yards of lace weight, enough for 2 or 3 shawls. That's a lot of yarn, especially for someone who usually dabbles in single skeins.
I took a big risk here. I was flipping through Maggie Righetti's Sweater Design in Plain English
this evening, and I happened to turn to the page where she recommends buying a single skein before investing in a sweater's worth of anything. It was almost as if she knew. But she didn't say anything about Easter Eggs promising big savings. (My Easter Egg gave me 15% off.)
I have big audacious plans for this yarn. Big, audacious, secret plans. But perhaps I've already said too much...
I also came home with our good friend Malabrigo
. The top skein is "Cuarenta" and the bottom skein is "Strawberry Fields." I like these colors because they go together without being too "matchy matchy."
I have design plans for the Malabrigo as well, but they are not-so-secret and not-so-audacious.
I also hung out with Emily, Ana, Ceci and Gigi while I was there. Emily said someone saw the picture of her combs that I had posted online, and purchased them from her. Whoever you are, mystery purchaser, I'm glad I could help.
I also talked about formats for patterns. I realized publishing patterns on Ravelry was a lot easier than I was making it seem. So thanks to them, I posted this on my blog and on Ravelry this week. The pattern brought record traffic to my blog from the Ravelry page.
Yay for Ravelry!
1 comment:
I bought the combs :P
I didn't know Cascade even made that yarn. I'm intrigued! I've also decided that I need to self-publish all the stuff that's been gathering dust while I tried to decide where to submit it. I should have some more Rav downloads pretty soon, but they have to be tech edited first.
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