Booga J

I've been in yarn acquisition mode lately and I have run out of room! I would love for this yarn to go to a good home -- make me an offer! It is Wildfoote Luxury Sock Yarn from Brown Sheep. And you don't have to take all 12 -- if you only want 2 or 4 or whatever, that's fine. The colors in the picture are pretty good, I think. Email Me!

It's been four wonderful years! Here we are at the big event -- our wedding was incredible! People are still talking about it. We had the reception at an old theater and we had a swing band (more like an orchestra -- 17 people I think?) A good time was had by all! It's a very important memory for me not only because I married the greatest guy EVER, but also because my dad was there. He passed away less than 2 months later and I'm so thankful that he was there to walk me down the aisle.

And to top it all off, our honeymoon was in Alaska! This was the greatest vacation I have ever been on! We went to Denali Backcountry Lodge and the Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge which were both incredible. and we also stayed in Seward and Anchorage. I would go back there in a minute!

And as I'm sitting here writing this, the delivery man came with a dozen roses! Here they are:

Aren't they pretty? (I'm not fond of red roses, so Pete always finds pretty non-red roses to give to me. Isn't that sweet?)

I'm back from Milwaukee and Theresa & I had a great time checking out some yarn stores. As you can see I did get some goodies! Let me tell you how important store models are. . . I bought all that Svale and the pattern from Dalegarn to make the sweater on the cover because I saw and touched the store model that was hanging by the yarn.

On the right is some Blue Sky Alpaca and a pattern for a plain guy hat. Pete approved when he saw it, so I think I did pretty good. This brings up the topic of yarn obsessions. I apparently have an obsession with alpaca. I did not know this until I read the label of each yarn I was drawn to and saw that they all seemed to contain a good percentage of alpaca! Yummy.

But of course that's not all -- here is another store model purchase. The little bag in the upper right corner of the picture was made up and hanging in the store. That did it! It was so cute that I had to walk out of there with the pattern and that lovely Mountain Colors yarn. The color of the yarn is "Lost Trail" and it is just gorgeous in person.

Oh yeah, and on the right is a boring skein of Brown Sheep in white. Soon to be un-boring (I feel like an IKEA commercial) though -- it will be dyed in the near future. I've been dyeing rovings lately, but I need to try the lanaset dyes on some yarn.

On an unrelated note -- the new Knitty is out and Rob has a great sock pattern in this issue. I already ordered my Cascade Fixation from ThreadBear. Have you?