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i’m sorry i’ve been mia lately. my work life has completely taken over the past month. frankly, it is really miserable. i think i’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel though, so hopefully more from me soon.
during all this craziness, mike and i did manage to take a quick trip to san francisco to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary. love that city.
while there, i had an opportunity to do something i’ve been wanting to do for quite a while – visit artfibers!
i’ve been hearing about artfibers forever on the stash and burn podcast and i was really excited to visit. i completely dorked out on yarn for the entire afternoon. they have such a great setup, and i had the shop to myself the entire time i was there. not only do they offer their own yarn, not available anywhere else, but you can knit swatches in any yarn, any color. i tried out about seven different bases before selecting sweater quantities of two.
i ended up with a cone of sylph in a beautiful purple color and a cone of ming in a pretty, buttery yellow. i really wanted a cone of kyoto as well, but they didn’t have enough of the vibrant red color, which was the most appealing to me. i have no project plans for either yarn yet, but i’m sure i’ll come up with something eventually. they are both so soft and luxurious. i’m open to sweater pattern ideas if anyone has one. most of the patterns knit on ravelry with either of these bases are shawls.
it was a really wonderful, relaxing afternoon (very much needed given the work stress i’ve been dealing with lately), so i was really sad to receive an email from artfibers just two weeks later explaining that they are closing the retail location and will be online only for the time being. details are on the artfibers website here. since i don’t live in SF, this really doesn’t affect me all that much. however, i found myself unusually bummed that such a great spot was closing. i don’t know the ins and outs of the business, but i really hope they’ll be able to make in internet only or find a new retail location. it would be really sad for the community to lose such a great resource.
anyway, i have a few FOs to talk about later in the week.
yippee! i came home today to find a package i’ve been wanting for quite some time. behold, the stripey goodness of vesper sock yarn…
…in the colouway “love stinks, yeah, yeah” and “oh, lollipop”
this package could not have come at a better time as i had a royally craptastic day. anyway, i’ve been wanting to try this self striping yarn for quite a while. i’m completely enamoured with any variegated yarn that includes both red and pink, so the love stinks colourway immediately attracted me. i’d been stalking the knitterly things site in hopes that it would reappear for quite a while and was thrilled when it was offered again last week. and, well, if i’m going to pay for shipping, i may as well buy more than one skein, right? thus the luscious oh lollipop orange beauty.
i think both are destined to become basic fun striped socks. the coveted love stinks will be saved for the plane ride to LA when i visit jess. yay for pretty yarn on a bad day!
