What Was Inside

A visit to Ryan always includes a trip to The Loopy Ewe. I don't know how I was lucky enough to have Ryan attend grad. school in the same city as this incredible yarn (and fabric) store, but I'm very grateful that he does. (Especially because TLE began in St. Louis, but moved to Fort Collins just a year and a half before Ryan did!) I've been very careful not to buy too much yarn on previous visits because the skeins needed to fit in my carry on luggage. This time was a little different. So what was in those packages?

I wind all my skeins by hand so I'm almost always knitting from a ball. I've debated a yarn bowl for several years, but when I found this beautifully glazed one from Pawley Studios, I had to get it.

My hands were also full of several skeins of Tumbleweed Yarn Aurora in Lariat. The striping sequence is lovely, and it includes the best bright blue I've ever knit with.

Then there was the Wollmeise. The Loopy Ewe used to arrange their yarn in cubbies, but they've recently switched over many of them to wall display hooks. There is simply no resisting when you see the multitude of colorful skeins as soon as you walk in the door.

Part of the reason I love having Ryan shop for yarn with me is that he almost always spots something I might never have considered otherwise. That was the case with these skeins of Wollmeise Pure in Spice Schwammerl. These are not my usual colors, but I was drawn to them as soon as he pointed them out.

I kept a skein of the Tumbleweed Yarns and the Wollmeise to knit with on the way home, and with Loopy Elf Anne B's careful packing (and several skeins for further cushioning), my yarn bowl arrived safely in NJ before I did.

But wait, there's more! Overcome by yarn fumes, I hadn't thought much about what I was actually going to knit with this yarn. Ryan had requested fingerless mitts with the Aurora, but that Wollmeise deserved to be more than another Hitchhiker. Clearly my only choice was to go back and look for yarn that would work with the Wollmeise. I found the perfect match with Leading Men Fiber Arts Show Stopper in Copper Cloud. I think these will be a Match and Move, but for now I'm happy to just admire them together while I finish a few other projects.

Ryan also requested a hat in this gorgeous Wollmeise Pure in Single Malt, and this one last skein of Berry Colorful Yarnings in Happy Life was a must to add to the second yarn shipment. It will probably become fingerless mitts to remind us of hope and happier times with Obama. So there you have it. Loads of yarn, (some might even say too much), but it all makes me incredible happy and I'm looking forward to the knitting.

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Tomorrow is November 1st, and that means NaBloPoMo. Do you ever wake up on Saturday or Sunday, grateful for the weekend, but still wishing that the blogs you read would provide you with posts every single day, even weekends?  Well, it's going to happen, starting tomorrow! I can't promise mine will be good posts, but for November it may be quantity over quality!