Caitlin and Mikayla joined me on my quest for wooly wonders, and did we ever have fun.
And by fun, I meant that we were all practically melting from the heat.
I broke Mikayla's rule of no buying until we see everything, but I HAD to snag a skein of Destination Yarn's show exclusive colorway, County Fair.
Yes, a single skein. Not my usual two-for-big-shawls.
I had a limited budget this year, and I knew a big chunk of that was going to go towards the yarn for my ceremony shawl, so I mostly bought single skeins.
But rather than let them just languish as "stash yarn," I did something rather clever. I went ahead and paired it up with some other stash yarn and picked out a pattern. In this case, I grabbed my new Leon Alexander yarn and a skein from Bare Naked Wools that I purchased like 3 or 4 years ago.
The 3 skeins are all put together in a canvas drawstring bag and the pattern has been recorded in my bullet journal. Makes for easy project planning!
The next thing I bought were a couple of minis from Redbird Studios.
And these were paired up with the skein of speckled pink Three Irish Girls and some Shepherd's Wool fingering that I had laying around. In fact, the Shepherd's was one of my first purchases from Harps and Thistles FOREVER ago.
Speaking of Redbird Studios, remember the blue skein I bought last year?
Okay, you probably don't, but that's okay!
Anyway, I decided what I was going to pair with that, too!
The pattern I have in mind for this combo I'm so ridiculously excited about. I'm going to get to try mosaic knitting for the first time!
It's another colorwork technique, but you only use one color at a time. It uses slipped stitches to create the designs.
Like I said, really excited to try that.
My last purchase before we get to ceremony shawl yarn (yes, I actually did find some) is the only thing I haven't paired up with anything yet. Mostly because I think I want to just buy a second skein and make something spectacular out of it.
You can't really tell from the above picture, but the yarn is *sparkly*.
You can kinda see it a little bit here. But in person, it's just *shinyshinyshiny*.
I mean, I guess one stash yarn out of everything I bought really isn't that bad.
But let's move on to the purchase we've all been waiting for.
I give you...
The Ceremony Shawl Yarn!
*fanfare and trumpets and glitter and confetti*
I ended up buying these three skeins from Bewitched Pigments in their Magic fingering weight base. The color is called Into The Woods.
It was love at first sight, really. I tried looking at other yarns, but this color just completely captivated me.
Now I guess I need to sit down and actually design the thing.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I changed my mind again.
But now that I have the yarn, I have a solid plan in front of me and just need to dive in and get working.
Oh, I also picked up my first dyer pin!
Now I just have to find one of them fancy canvas bags that everyone has and start placing my badges of honor on there.
Well, that's all I got. Catch you later and all that!
"WAIT!" you yell. "Did or did you not get Teroldego done in time to wear to the show?"
Listen...
I did.
It was really easy to finish, surprisingly.
But...
I...
Didn't wear it...
I KNOW!
But I didn't have any good outfit choices to compliment it.
So I ended up wearing Celestarium.
And I was stopped every other booth by someone wanting to see it, which is great and fun and totally ego-inflating.
But lest you think this was a unique thing, Mikayla wore that gorgeous purple Boo Knits shawl of hers and was stopped just as often as I was.
Caitlin was the only smart one and didn't wear wool in nearly 90 degree heat.
We stupidly waited until we were about dead from heat to take a picture together, so I'll spare you from that sight.
Instead, I'll leave you with some new flower pictures from around our yard.
If you'll excuse me, I have some yarn to play with.
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