the everyday adventures of sabrina

dude, i totally scored on sale yarns lately!

so it turns out that there’s a yarn store in my old neighborhood. we only overlapped in neighborliness very briefly, so i never knew they were there. it’s probably just as well: they have a niiiice
shop. so i collected today’s purchases along with some other things i’ve gotten lately, grabbed the camera, and here’s yarn porn!

(click to see larger
images, you yarn lusters-after!)

from upper left corner, clockwise:

• Jo-Ann’s Sensations Rainbow Boucle — on clearance for five bucks! 853
  yards, oh em gee,
• 
  Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles, by Cat Bordhi,
• three skeins each ON SALE FOR A DOLLAR APIECE of Smart
  Superwash yarn, for socky goodness, in blue and purple,
• three skeins of Gerifil India in 106 on sale for 40% off, to make a
  scarf and possibly hat to match my grass green winter coat,
• four skeins of TLC Amore in garnet, on clearance for $3 a skein, to
  make a lap blanket of some sort,
• some absolutely beautiful rose merino/silk (80/20%) roving and a
  drop spindle since i’ve wanted one for a while,
• the summer 2006 issue of Interweave
  Knits, since it has several things in it i was thinking i might want
  to make,
• two skeins of some gorgeous soft Blue Sky Alpaca Brushed Suri (67%
  baby suri, 22% merino, 11% bamboo), in Fudgesicle, because i wanted to
  make a lightweight scarf and i thought this would be good for something
  lacey yet warm,
• two skeins of Mango Moon recycled sari silk, because i’ve been
  wanting to try knitting with that stuff for ages and ages and finally
  i just decided to go for it,
• three skeins of Cascade Pearl in Italian Ices, also ON SALE
  FOR A DOLLAR APIECE,
• and finally, another skein of Jo-Ann’s Sensations Rainbow Boucle, in
  a different blue colorway, this one full price (sniff!) at $8 for a
  ginormous skein. seriously, those two skeins are, like, each larger than my
  cat kiyoshi.

and speaking of kiyoshi… check out this photo of a couple of
recent FOs:

look closely at the right-hand edge of that photo.

FOs and WIPs, from left to right:

• in-progress “Light and Lovely Boucle Wrap,” Jo-Ann’s free store
  pattern for the rainbow boucle. basically knit a row, knit a row with a
  yo on each stitch, knit a row and drop the extra loops, knit a row, repeat
  ad nauseum. really, it’s stupid easy. i think i got all that much done
  in probably three hours — and i wasn’t really paying attention all that
  much. great tv-watching knitting project. i may end up taking this
  shawl to work because i’m always freaking freezing in my office.
• my new red
  bike water bottle! my shiny new bike, being of a mature
  vintage (ahem), does not have standard water bottle clip mounts. i was
  trying to figure out how i could attach a water-carrying device when i
  thought, hey, i could just knit something up. and i happened to have this
  red heart super-saver acrylic just lying there… it’s a neat stitch,
  i was looking for simple lace patterns. cast on a multiple of three plus
  a couple more for however wide you want the edges to be, *k1, yo, k2tog,
  repeat to edge, knit back, *k2, yo, k2tog, repeat until 2 sts remain, k2,
  knit across. i have a stockinette base and top of the bottle bag for
  stability, then once it was sewn into a tube i picked up stitches on the
  base and used DPNs to knit a bottom into it. then i co 50 sts and
  garter stitched (three rows, i think?) two straps, then sewed them on.
  i was going to use icord, but frankly, i HATE making icord, so i got about
  three rows into it and frogged it in disgust. besides, my straps are
  fine. and i like my swanky knitted water bottle holder!
• this scarf, made with Jo-Ann’s yarn over the course of a weekend.
  probably took me all of about seven or eight quality tv-watching hours to
  do. woohoo big needles!
• and a sock! this is actually the start of a second sock in a pair.
  not that the first sock is finished… oh, no, that would make too much
  sense. maybe i should have photographed both socks…

but anyways, if you click that and enlarge it, you will notice the very
tiny trespass of a cat into my knitting photo studio — kiyoshi no doubt
got curious what was so neat up there on the bed, as he decided to
investigate:

“what’s this?”

“ooooh… a blankie, for me!”

“but you messed it up… here, i’ll fix it.”

it was at this point that the future catblogging photograph session was
cut short in favor of rescuing the knitting from uncaring, if blunt,
claws.