January - Stumbling in Philadelphia

So I am a little late in getting this blog going, and I am going to have to write about January from a historical perspective. For work, I went to Philadelphia for four days. Being the obsessed knitter that I am, I decided to check out a few of the yarn stores there, if time permitted.

The first day, I checked out Loop, a nice yarn store. I was looking for patterns to make some cute vest/short sleeved fly-away cardis that I see in the stores, and firmly went past the sock yarns (even though, from what I hear, sock yarn does not count as stash). I also went past the Noro Silk Garden in color 252 which I have been looking for to make a modular shawl. It was the wrong dye lot, and it was about 40% more than the going rate. I was really good getting patterns and almost made it out of the store, but a thrummed slipper pattern caught my eye. And they had all of the materials right there. So, month 1, second week, and I have already slipped.

The next night, I went to Rosie's Yarn Cellar. This is another nice shop in Philly, but is truly is in a cellar. Don't attempt this after a few glasses of wine - very steep stairs. I managed to hold myself to just buying some patterns in this store.

The rest of the month, I did really well. I think I was in Soft N'Sassy, one of my fav yarn stores in Broadview Heights, Ohio for their big 20% off sale. I held myself to a book.

OTN: A modular shawl in Brown Sheep LanaLoft. This is taking me a while to do, but fortunately I bought the materials on 12/26/09, so it doesn't count as a 2010 purchase. However, at 240 stitches per row, it will be while before I can start something else.