Baby pics and beach yarn
Several folks have asked, so here's a pic of the new baby. The blanket was crocheted by me, and he DID have the ADORABLE matching knitted hat (which I've lost, much to my heartbreak. I've just bought the yarn to knit another...but it's still won't be the same. The other one is the one he wore home from the hospital.)
This is a picture from the beach last week. The thing you're supposed to notice in this picture is the pair of beautiful handknit socks made by Sandy . She had made these last year, then thought that the intended recipient may not be as enamored with them as they should be, so she had a drawing to see who in blogland would recieve them. I couldn't believe it, but I got them and here they are on my little fella.
Thank you, Sandy, we love them!
Now, you know I had to check out the 2 yarn shops at the beach. One was in a snazzy shopping center, but nothing there was great enough to just call my name, so I bought a ball of sock yarn and left.
The second shop was in a pretty run-down looking building, but they had lots of interesting yarn, and several books that I had been looking for. As I was preparing to leave, I saw a wall of Noro yarn. My LYS doesn't carry Noro. Plus, I'm still infatuated with the Klaralund sweater that everyone was knitting last year. They had the Klaralund pattern book, AND there were 2 different colors of Silk Garden that I loved. In fact, I couldn't decide between them. Since buying yarn on vacation qualifies for three separate budgeting categories, (yarn, clothing, and souvenier) I got enough to make a sweater from each color (plus the books, plus a few balls of sock yarn.) Now I still love everything I bought, BUT I have one serious issue with the whole experience....
This is how my yarn came home with me.
How uninspiring is that? Now the ladies at the shop were lovely, but there's something to the idea of presentation. I clean trash out of my van with these bags. It's just NOT what you should use to send home hundreds of dollars worth of yarn and books that your customer just bought. Yuck.
Look back at Sandy's site on her Jan 13th post. See how her scarf yarn was packaged? Now, that's more like it. Huge note to all yarn shop owners out there....packaging matters! (Especially if you've just spent lots of money.)
This is a picture from the beach last week. The thing you're supposed to notice in this picture is the pair of beautiful handknit socks made by Sandy . She had made these last year, then thought that the intended recipient may not be as enamored with them as they should be, so she had a drawing to see who in blogland would recieve them. I couldn't believe it, but I got them and here they are on my little fella.
Thank you, Sandy, we love them!
Now, you know I had to check out the 2 yarn shops at the beach. One was in a snazzy shopping center, but nothing there was great enough to just call my name, so I bought a ball of sock yarn and left.
The second shop was in a pretty run-down looking building, but they had lots of interesting yarn, and several books that I had been looking for. As I was preparing to leave, I saw a wall of Noro yarn. My LYS doesn't carry Noro. Plus, I'm still infatuated with the Klaralund sweater that everyone was knitting last year. They had the Klaralund pattern book, AND there were 2 different colors of Silk Garden that I loved. In fact, I couldn't decide between them. Since buying yarn on vacation qualifies for three separate budgeting categories, (yarn, clothing, and souvenier) I got enough to make a sweater from each color (plus the books, plus a few balls of sock yarn.) Now I still love everything I bought, BUT I have one serious issue with the whole experience....
This is how my yarn came home with me.
How uninspiring is that? Now the ladies at the shop were lovely, but there's something to the idea of presentation. I clean trash out of my van with these bags. It's just NOT what you should use to send home hundreds of dollars worth of yarn and books that your customer just bought. Yuck.
Look back at Sandy's site on her Jan 13th post. See how her scarf yarn was packaged? Now, that's more like it. Huge note to all yarn shop owners out there....packaging matters! (Especially if you've just spent lots of money.)
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