More Yarn! A Coping Mechanism

I don't think I am finding life quite as madly stressful these days as I was, say, last August, when Mom had fallen for the first time and it felt like the world had landed on my shoulders. But I am, it must be admitted, buying yarn at a similar pace to what I was then. Preemptive stress reduction technique? Possibly. Well, whatever the reason, here's some new stuff.

I first bought from Dye Mad Yarns last fall, and got some more of this lovely stuff, in two colorways that go nicely together (always a relief when what you think worked on-screen works in reality as well). 

And this is some more from Blu Fiber, which I first ordered from, ah, in February. Hey, they had a sale! These two won't be used together: the grey is cashmerino in fingering weight and the multi-green-blue is DK-weight cashmerino.

Finally, on Saturday, most of my knitting group took a day trip to Sarasota for the Miss Babs trunk show there. 

I bought a few things.

The skein on the left is the one I bought this time, to go with the skein on the right, which I already had; thanks to advice from Babs herself, they go together really well. This is Sojourn, which is a divinely soft cashmere-silk blend. I'm thinking these will be a cowl.

Miss Babs Yowza, which is DK weight, don't know what these will be.

And a few Yummy 2-Ply Toes, which are small skeins of fingering weight merino. I just liked how these looked together.

Finally, a non-Babs purchase, this set is from Emma's Yarn

I took them out of the package very carefully to keep them in order, before I noticed that they are labeled that way! Great detail.

Which meant I could grab them by the handful and not fret about the way they had been laid out before.

While I was getting things entered into Ravelry on Sunday, I looked over to admire the picture:

Pretty colors, happy sigh.

As a footnote, if you were reading here last January, you may remember the massive yarn giveaway that I was the recipient of (who could forget?). Well, I saw the same woman last week, and she said ... wait for it ... that she has more yarn to give me! Can you imagine? I have so many questions!

• Did she not in fact give me all her yarn last year? The nine giant lawn-and-garden-size bags weren't ALL? Or has she bought more since? 
• If this was yarn she kept back, given how fantastic the yarn she did give me was, what did she keep? Because that was some nice yarn! Is it, as a friend suggested, spun from unicorn hair? 
• How much yarn can it be? She said that her daughter was visiting and, after asking her when the last time she knit anything was, suggested it might be time to get rid of this yarn.* So, it must be enough to be visible, right? Not just a bit stuffed in the back of a closet, I mean. 
• She said that it was in bins, and that she might give it to me in those, instead of putting it in garbage bags, was that okay. I told her honestly that whatever worked for her was fine, but afterward, I was thinking, bins? Plural? How many?!

*Rather rude of her daughter, it sounds to me, but then again maybe I should thank her

I of course will ask her none of these things. She said it might be June* before she gets things organized, which I again said was fine, whatever works for her...but every time I think of it, I wonder.
*Which is when her daughter will be here again, and can "help"

Stay tuned!