Kicking Off September with Yarn

Wow, I just saw that my last post was number 3,200: that's a big number!

I have both knitting and yarn-buying to talk about, so prepare yourself for pictures.

A few weeks ago, I got an email from the farther-away-from-me yarn store, saying that they were having knit-famous-person Keith Leonard coming in for a trunk show. To be honest, I hadn't heard of him, but I looked at his website and in addition to doing classes and thing, he sells some yarns I have heard good things of, so I noted it on the calendar and off I went this morning.

A word about the website, and one yarn brand I hadn't heard of: Who wouldn't be intrigued to read "A Whimsical Yarn Co (CAUTION: PROFANITY)"? Well, of course I had to get some, and not only is the yarn lovely, check out the label:

Ha!

The rest of the yarn I got was profanity-free, and from Three Irish Girls. Four skeins of this lovely, squishy worsted (in a remarkably similar color scheme to the first yarn, eh?).

It's called Springvale Worsted.

And the sample he had with him was, he said, a blanket for his cat, so he has machine-washed and dried it weekly for the last nine months. It looks new; it holds up amazingly well. And isn't it fun how it knits up?

Then there's this skein:

Adorn Luxe, also lovely and soft. Will it be socks? Perhaps. A shawl? Who knows.

It will have to wait its turn either way, as after the current socks, I've already got a skein tagged for next, and as for the shawl under way, it has a way to go!

To sum up:

• The pattern is Stephen West's Spectra
• The grey-blue yarn is Rapture, from Mad Color Fiber Arts
• The colorful yarn is ModeKnit's ModeWerk Fingering

It went from planning:

To winding:

To casting on.

Starting the fun part.

Bet you can't knit just one!

Pausing to admire it.

And about where it is now.

I already want to make one that's deeper; this is on a 10-inch needle, so you can see it is narrow, and I think the pattern will  be fun to play around with. But first, this one!