Life's a Stitch

You know it’s a good yarn crawl when:

1. You have to take a break to eat lunch in order to clear your head enough to make purchasing decisions.

2. You get a fortune cookie at lunch that reads "You will take on a new project and complete it."

3. You hit a yarn math shop (yes. you read that right) with a "baker’s dozen special," not the kind you’d see in a bakery – buy 12 and get 1 free. This one was buy 7 and get 6 skeins free. Special note to those who live near Seattle: the store Math and Stuff, on 90th and Roosevelt Way NE, has a yarn section. Go figure. The yarn section is not doing well and the baker’s dozen special is their way of clearing things out. They have an interesting collection, grouped by colour, but limited colours of each yarn. For example they had Tartlette, but only in three colours and Noro Silk Garden but only in two. They have more inventory in back, stored by manufacturer in boxes, and they’ll let you have at them if you ask. Other stock that I remember: Noro Silver Thaw, Segue ribbon, Mountain Colors loopy mohair, Manos del Uruguay in a good selection of colours.This is blogless Marsha sorting the goods.

4. Finding Anny Blatt $44 angora and ribbon scarf kits for $17.50.

5. Tracking down three skeins of discontinued, albeit troublesome Silk Garden in the right colourway, to add length to my Lady Eleanor. Yes, I’m a glutton for knitting punishment, you can tell that by the projects I take on, can’t you? My Noro may be flawed. but thinking positively, the only negative is that I have to weave in more ends. The colours are beautiful.

Marsha and I spent the first two nights in her son’s beautiful downtown Seattle apartment. Thank you, Jeff, for graciously handing over your apartment to us. It was the perfect spot to knit, enjoy the view (this really is the view without a telephoto lens), and of course, enjoy some decent wine.

I can’t leave out one of my travelling companions, Lady Eleanor, posing on Amtrak from Vancouver to Seattle:

Next post: the boat ride. Although it is disrespectful to call a ship a boat, our 15 hour trip hardly counts as a cruise, so it has been dubbed the boat ride.