A Good Weekend

So here are some lists and pics of what I got at the show. Most I already have plans for and some of them I already started on. :D I couldn't help myself.

So this picture to the left shows that monstrous green skein (yes its a skein!) of boucle mohair is about 8 ounces and 1200 to 1000 yards. I thought it would look cool as that sweater wrap in the new spring interweave knits. I just have to knit a swatch a and see how soft i can get it. I had high hopes for it but now i'm wondering if it might be to itchy (it was only $20). The purple stuff is silk and rayon its also like 800 to 1000 yards I was thinking about doing the swallowtail shawl in that for my mother in law. It was $30. The Last small skeins are Koigu KPPM and as you can see I have already started on a pair of socks. :D I had never used it before so i'm making a really plain pair of socks at this point i'm already past the heel even though the picture shows less (They are gonna be really comfy!)

The picture on the right shows a bunch of different sock yarns. Starting on the left is some hand-painted green sock yarn from Commu-Knits I got it to make my husband fingerless gloves for the winter time. He's a programmer and his mouse hand gets really cold (those are as much for my benefit as His :D Burr...cold hands). The second two skeins are from JojoLang Sock yarns they are almost sport weight yarns but I love the sherbet look those might become socks for me. The last two balls are also from Jojo Lang but they are definitely sock or fingering weight and i'm contemplating making the Bayerische socks from Eunny Jang with them. They are kind of like a hand-painted yarn but they are crazy how they change colors while you knit because the whole knitted piece changes color as you go not just in stripes or blotches. Very Cool!

So this bag was my last acquirement for the weekend. It's from BlueQ. I just love it because its so cute. I remember reading Dick and Jane when I was little. Not to mention you could fit like an entire afghan in this bag or whatever monster project you happen to be working on at the time. Awesome by my standards and also only $12!

So I went I worked like a dog, I looted, and then I went home to knit. A good weekend.

It's finally over....

It's been a while since I could get back. All because of stitches. (as you can see on the left, i'm the pregnant one on the right)It was an awesome show and I got some great loot but man was it tiring. Holy crap being on your feet for an average of 9 hours a day when your pregnant sucks. I've been checking my legs for varicose veins(I really don't want them). I already have a few from a long time ago when I worked retail but I think that they are getting bigger. Screw that!

So my loot.... I got some great deals I scoured all of the sale bins and tables and found some other must have items. The unfortunate thing is that they did not allow ANY cameras at the show not that I didn't get at least one of me in my booth but we had to be all covert and stuff these are from a camera phone that's why they suck so bad. So I have no pictures of my gotta have list. The other thing is that I know for a fact just from talking to some suppliers that there were vendors charging 150% on top of what they bought it for. So it was a bit pricey. In all other ways though the show was fantastic there was so much of everything you could ever want there. Knitting needles made from hardwood but polished so nicely that you couldn't even feel the grain. Silk everywhere in every weight of yarn you could imagine. Some angora or mohair yarn that looked smaller than sewing machine thread. Things actually made from this thread! They had buttons and all kinds of sock yarn and skeins that were more than 100 grams, there were several places who had monster 8 ounce skeins dyed, undyed, and hand-dyed. After leaving I realized I wanted to go back but definitely not to work, just to shop! So my search for the next yarn show (where I don't have to work) begins. In the process I will just have to save up my money. Pictures of my loot will follow with descriptions but I will save that for tomorrow. For now I am just content to relax and not stand or walk anywhere.