Stash Enhancement

Did I bump into you on Saturday?  If you were out and about for the New York City Yarn Crawl, we very well may have crossed paths.  I had high ambitions of crawling running from LYS to LYS, but my Saturday got eaten up with some domestic tasks to take care of so I ended up staying local and popped into my closest shops.  Where my stash was most enhanced was at Knitty City which was overflowing with deliciousness!  Knowing that all yarns were at a 10% discount, I went with a mission: to get two sweaters' worth of yarn, and the hardest part of this task was picking just the right colors.

First, I was completely taken with this winey colorway in Cascade Heritage Sock and grabbed four skeins to knit the Brooklyn Bridge Cardigan by Melissa Werhle.  This will be for me, but I have a feeling a certain teenage girl will be borrowing it from time to time.

Next to jump into my basket were five skeins of Rowan Lima in a heathered reddish-brown for a cardigan (or maybe pullover) of my own design for Miranda.  I've heard a lot about Lima, and I'm excited to think up a way to highlight the construction of this yarn.

I was all ready to head to the counter and pay for my goodies when this gorgeous skein peeped out from the 40% sale bin. I've always wanted to knit with Dream in Color Smoosy so my US3 DPNs are ready and waiting.

I'm sure you noticed a color trend here, right?  As Pearl, the shop owner, said to me, our love of red must just be the Asian in us!