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Every year around the holidays the place I work at gives each of the employees a gift card to the Downtown Boise Association. Although I may be remembering this incorrectly, in the decade I have worked here I have always used this gift card to supplement my meager "Buy Things for Others" holiday budget. This year, by planning ahead, I was able to save my DBA gift card to spend all on myself! With card in hand, I've been looking foward to my next trip to Drop a Stitch.
Yesterday evening I popped in yearning for some Cascade 220 for Bobbles & Brambles, knowing I'd have enough credit left for some fancypants sock yarn. My intention was to discover the magic of the Koigu KPPPM, a favorite of the lovely Ms. Pink and Ms. Tonic (two of my favorite internet celebrities). While kneeling on the floor trying to choose a colorway and listening to my favorite Yarn Pusher discuss a felting project with another visiting fiber addict, my eye kept flickering to a non-Koigu shelf. After lots of fingering and thinking and fingering some more I ended up with some Fire to get a sock Monkey off my back!
Even more exciting? With my semi-planned purchases waiting on the counter I knew I still had a few dollars to spend. I wandered the store high and low, looking for one more hank. I thought about finding something to pair with my Boxing Day mohair for the Mrs. Beeton's, or maybe a bit of angora for Fetching, and I looked wistfully at a hank of ($50!!!) Pashmina, but nothing begged to come home with me (well, except the Pashmina that I can't afford). When I was nearly ready to just head out and come back later, I happened to glance at the gorgeous Manos del Uruguay right across from the counter. See the colorway I chose? I'm thinking I'll turn it into another Calorimetry with a matching scarf of some sort. Though at only 132 yards it might be a really short scarf!
I've been having way too much fun planning new projects but I promise I'll start writing some entries about finished projects, or even (the horror!) non-knitting topics, in the nearish future.
