Getting off track there.
I want to knit another Flea sweater. As I chatted with my sister, I remembered how much fun it was to knit. I remembered the sheer joy of it and I wanted that again. I went looking at yarn. Specifically, I went looking for yarn lines that had a lot of colours.
I did check in my stash. My most colourful yarn collection is Knit Picks Pallette. That bin is pretty picked over now. There are not a lot of good contrasts left in the box. Lots of greens though which is good. Besides the Pallette, I don't have many yarns with a good bright colour range.
I was feeling pretty free with with my budget. I had not bought myself anything at Christmas and I totally skipped my birthday, so I felt I deserved a little gander through yarns. I looked very hard at my local shops for something nice. I looked at local mill shops online. I searched several other Canadian yarn choices. I searched other Canadian yarn stores to see what I might want to work with. It was fun. Serious fun. It's been a while since I shopped with intent.
In the end I decided to go with Cascade 220. It's such a good yarn. It wears hard and I can see the wall of Cascade 220 that RCY had at the Southside store. The wall of colours seared itself on my soul. I know exactly what I am getting with it.
So I played with colour and goofed around and built the sweater I wanted.
And then I bought some sock yarn. Because I needed some. NOT. Oh well.
I found a really interesting YouTube channel this morning. She is American, an unusual choice for me but she has a wonderfully real voice. Too many podcasts are over curated, over planned, over processed. I like ones that are sometimes chaotic, sometimes calm but where the love of knitting and yarn shines through. Check her out: ktbl a knitting podcast on youtube. I spent a lovely morning with her.
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