Yarn Fumes

I've been stressed out recently from work and weird mood swings. So my form of therapy? Yarn shopping! I traveled up to Large Marge's Yarn Shop up off of 40 East in the Normandy plaza (this much detail is because my GPS lies about where it is). Large Marge is a wonderful lady who just opened the store in place of the Celtic Knot, which closed a little while back. She's still getting her yarn stock in, but the atmosphere is laid back. There's lots of places to sit and relax and knit. There's also movie night! The 21st is the first one, I'm going to try to attend, they are watching The Princess Bride.

I looked around and saw the Deluxe Worsted Yarn by Universal Yarn (in Caribbean Sea). The colors were vibrant and drew my eye and the price was pretty good. I debated about what to make with it. I finally settled on making Amused (definitely click the link, it's a very nice pattern), even though that used a superwash wool. Here is the yarn I bought, unfortunately, my camera does not do it justice. It is not this blue. It is more of a dark-ish blue/green.


So, I couldn't resist the sock yarn either. I'm a sucker for all things sock yarn. Do I actually make that many socks? No, not really, but I aspire to. I think my goal of learning to make two socks at a time, will help that. I feel kind of wussy changing from DPNs, because I really like using DPNs, but I have real problems with "second sock-itis." Oh and here is the yarn, it's
It's Tubular x2 by Scarlett Fleece (in Raisin Berry).


I always find yarn shopping kind of relaxing. So I like to think it helped after my recent sleep issues.