yes please

<--clickylinks!
  well, i was going to call my friend jonathan & see if he wanted to hang out tonight, but instead i have spent several hours drooling over handmade yarn online!  each picture should take you to the spinner's online shop - let me know if any of them don't work properly.  now i can return to this post & remember all the pretty things i want to buy (or you could buy me...)  maybe after the renegade craft fair when i have lots of money...  i swore i wasn't going to learn how to knit, but the yarns are so darn irresistable.  i have allotted myself this past week to play around & figure some stitches out before getting back to sewing my fingers off.
  the alumni sale was great, despite being freezing & damp & standing in a puddle all day.  teresa & i did really well & rewarded ourselves with a trip to ikea today!  we both spent way less than expected because we found these cheap tables to help us get our studios organized.  yes, i have given up on getting my dream workbench built.  if 4 different carpenters can't get it made...  of course, now that i've bought some tables one of them will probably show back up as is often the way things go.

  now please tell me where the charger is to my digital camera battery so i can rescue the pictures on it & start posting all my lovely knitting & my new workspace!  at least if i don't find it this week i can recharge it when i visit my sister next weekend...

Comments

[Erin Fae]

yarn is porn!!! Seriously, i can understand the addiction to porn because i look at yarn. I drool, i want to TOUCH it! It makes me feel dirty. Pluckyfull is my suicidegirl, mypapercrane is my playboy, and pipi knee socks is my hustler!

[Charlotte]

As a knitter, I'd just like to say that most of those yarns are priced absurdly for their yardage. They're gorgeous, but it takes something like 400 yards of yarn to make a 6ft x 7inch scarf out of ribbed stitching. And in reality, that's an average-ish size for a winter scarf. They're very pretty, but you'd be getting very little bang-for-your-buck. Just be careful.

A really gorgeous hand-made yarn is Manos del Uruguay, a lovely yarn made by a women's cooperative in Uruguay. Check out the variegated and solid colors.

http://www.kaleidoscopeyarns.com/manos-del-uruguay-yarn.html

[Alison]

Bugger the price, they're just beautiful to look at en-masse.

[jane]

i found you through back tack. I love your zippouches. LOVely. You are ao so talented!