Special Delivery

I ordered some yarn from Serendipitous Ewe a little while ago. In addition to some of her Sock Summit colourways, I also got a custom colourway: Hmmm - what's this? There's something about this colourway that looks familiar...

Being 2 Laces at once...

Baltic: 1 : of or relating to the Baltic Sea or to the states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia 2 : of or relating to a branch of the Indo-European language family containing Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian 3: a gift I recieved along with my Sockapalooza socks a few years ago. Baltic Sea: 1: arm of the Atlantic; N Europe enclosed by Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, & Germany 2: some sock yarn that followed me home from The Knit Cafe a few months ago.

Ich bin krank

So this is what 40 feels like - red, irritated, dripping nose; scratchy throat; sinus congestion... ...Oh wait, that's my cold. Yes, this is turning out to be a somewhat memorable birthday - bad cold in the middle of our Eurotrip, being re-united with the cellphones (despite a French Postal Strike), and The Gambler realizing that he forgot my card at home. But that's OK - all this just gives me licence to stretch out the celebration for the next week or so. I did get a present from The Gambler a few days ago: Coke and "Coca-light" have been the universal in restaurants thus far (well, except for the place that had Cola-licht, which turned out to be East German cola, according to the Berliner we were with. It is of slightly higher quality than East German toilet paper.), and I am a die hard Diet Pepsi drinker. Our hotel in Berlin has a kitchenette, so when he went to the market to pick up some food, The Gambler managed to find my sweet beautiful Diet Pepsi. And I have bought myself some yarny presents. The first was an amazing bargain: a bulky wool yarn for 1.95 Euros per ball (less than $2.70 Cdn). I picked it up at a Lana Grossa shop in Nurmberg. But before that, I picked up this yarn at Tolle Wolle in Nurmberg: Some handspun merino for 12 Euros per skein; and I bought it entirely because of the colourway: It's Somerset coloured yarn! Dear Mommy, this is Somerset. Happy Birthday. We miss you. Greedo wants you to send some schnitzel.

It doesn't matter what Wendy says...

Sock yarn DOES count. Sock yarn does count. Sock yarn does count. Sock yarn does count. Am I convincing anyone?

Flash my Sock Yarn Stash!

Right now, a significant portion of my stash is hidden away in a storage closet under /behind large boxes (and the yarn destined for the EBTKS sweater is in the rental house), so I decided that I would focus on sock yarns (because most of it is still accessible, although there are a few AWOL skeins that must be down in that closet. I hope.)The entire stash.The yarn that started it all; I saw this skein of yarn at the Seattle Knitting and Fibre Arts Expo last April, and thought "I think I'm going to learn how to knit socks". I didn't realize how good the price was at the time. My Regia yarn collection. Large skeins of yarn with German labels. Smaller skeins of yarn with non-english labels. Famous maker handpaints. Yes, that would be 3 skeins of STR Sock Club yarn that remain unknit. Canadian handpaints. Independent dyer handpaints. I have at least 3 other skeins somewhere. Yarns with unique fibres. Bargain yarns. Yarn that is destined to become something other than socks. I can't bring myself to tally them. Better get knitting!