All sorts of Suss
In my quest to create items for people older than my dogs, I hit my favorite brick & mortar yarn shop today. Suss has beautiful yarns and killer sales twice a year. Everytime the announcement goes out, I heed the call and head over. (Of course, that doesn' t mean that I don't head over when there is no sale, but I feel less guilty when the yarn is discounted.) Its a great store with beautiful yarns and knit items. Of course, I could be a bit biased since I learned how to knit there and I just adore Suss's patterns and designs.
This time around I couldn't get over there until this afternoon, the tail end of the sale. It worked out for me; I was able to score on the supplies I needed for what I hope to be Gramma's Christmas gift. (When it comes to me knitting something more complicated than a scarf, the gift often rests on a hope and prayer.) So yeah, finding beautiful yarn I needed on sale is very exciting in my happy little world.
Something I realised when I was babbling to T about my good fortune...for all the non-knitters out there in blog land, I'm guessing you don't know the full life of a knitted item. Of course you get the reading books for a pattern and then heading over to the yarn shop to fetch yarn and then spending the time actually knitting the item. But, what you might not know is that if you buy the purtier yarns, you need to wind them. No, you can't knit with the yarn the way it comes; it gets tangled. Trust me, I've tried to skip this step. I don't advise it.
Most stores, when offering yarns at deep discounts, don't offer their winders for your use. That space is taken up by the sale tables. So, you either sit and wind them by hand, which to say takes a bit o' time is a bit of an understatement. Or, you buy a winder. And, you can't just buy the winder, you have to buy this thingy that the yarn sits on while you wind it.
Here's the thingy on which the yarn spins in its quest to be wound.
And here's the winder itself....
You can see the already wound balls o' yarn next to the winder. I know, pretty damn exciting.
Hey, I'm recovering, I'm still trying to get back into the swing into this whole writing and taking pictures thing. This will get more interesting...hopefully....
This time around I couldn't get over there until this afternoon, the tail end of the sale. It worked out for me; I was able to score on the supplies I needed for what I hope to be Gramma's Christmas gift. (When it comes to me knitting something more complicated than a scarf, the gift often rests on a hope and prayer.) So yeah, finding beautiful yarn I needed on sale is very exciting in my happy little world.
Something I realised when I was babbling to T about my good fortune...for all the non-knitters out there in blog land, I'm guessing you don't know the full life of a knitted item. Of course you get the reading books for a pattern and then heading over to the yarn shop to fetch yarn and then spending the time actually knitting the item. But, what you might not know is that if you buy the purtier yarns, you need to wind them. No, you can't knit with the yarn the way it comes; it gets tangled. Trust me, I've tried to skip this step. I don't advise it.
Most stores, when offering yarns at deep discounts, don't offer their winders for your use. That space is taken up by the sale tables. So, you either sit and wind them by hand, which to say takes a bit o' time is a bit of an understatement. Or, you buy a winder. And, you can't just buy the winder, you have to buy this thingy that the yarn sits on while you wind it.
Here's the thingy on which the yarn spins in its quest to be wound.
And here's the winder itself....
You can see the already wound balls o' yarn next to the winder. I know, pretty damn exciting.
Hey, I'm recovering, I'm still trying to get back into the swing into this whole writing and taking pictures thing. This will get more interesting...hopefully....
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