Yarns and roving
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important things learned today:

  • loopy yarns has a student discount. and I AM A STUDENT NOW. rawk.
  • i can cast on, with even tension, 34 stitches in twisted german cast-on while walking in the tunnel transferring from the red line to blue line at jackson; and
  • man, they are not joking when they say addi turbos are slippery.

since my missing evil sock is still missing and it still has my needles hostage, i threw caution to the winds and bought two 20″ #1 addi turbos at the shop. (you muggles snort sarcastically and think “yeah, knitting, sooo-ooo-oo daring,” but you’ve never paid $12 for one knitting needle, have you? oh, shut up.) i wanted to see if they were all they are cracked up to be, and also, gosh they’re just really shiny, aren’t they? *blink* *blink* i have to say, they are very nice. those slinky, calm cables are sweet. but the little bastards are slick. i’m glad i didn’t drop any stitches while knitting on the el, but it required paying a fair amount of attention to make sure i didn’t. bus-knitting should be easier than el-knitting, i think, since at least it’ll be less bumpy.

also, a (evidently fellow) knitter struck up a conversation, asking me what shop i’d gotten my yarn at, and asking if i knew of any shops in her area, around southport and belmont. apparently i wore my LYS Genius hat to work today. i told her i’d gotten the yarns at Loopy Yarns (which of course i did) and squeed a little bit about all their lovely new summer yarns, and mentioned Nina and Arcadia Knitting, but try though i did i couldn’t recall anything in that area, though i know there are some. alas. oh well, maybe she’ll go to Loopy and hang out. by the way, i am apparently a “regular” now; i was recognized and “did you get a haircut”-ted. teehee.

oh, and i signed up for spinning class. not that i am not capable of spinning (and i’m even okay at it), but i think if i go take a class from someone who knows what they are doing, i can get better at plying and drafting. i think i will take something away from the class, anyways, and it was only $20. i hope they still have some of that 80/20 merino/silk roving when i go there for class; that stuff is so nice. anyways.

yay! yarn! yay!