04 March 2011

Why I Cheated (on my diet)

I put myself on a yarn diet for this year 2011.  But as I have been known to do with all diets, I then changed it up a bit by deciding the diet would only be for sock yarn.  I have lots of sock yarn. Loads and loads.  I haven’t actually counted yet because I don’t want or need to know.  Sort of like I won’t weigh myself when I know I have gained weight and should be doing a bit of dieting.

So I have been doing really well for January and February.  I bought some of the Frill Seeker for the scarves.  Our local yarn store is closing the end of March and all yarn was 25% off so I bought a bunch of Classic Wool for slippers.  And two skeins of the Cascade Heritage sock yarn. It was on sale for goodness sake! I think you can cheat a little under those circumstances.

But then yesterday I popped into my favourite yarn shop, Have a Yarn, In Mahone Bay, to pick up one more ball of the Frill Seeker yarn to knit one more scarf and these somehow or other ended up in my basket.

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Now this yarn is 55% merino, 20% nylon, 15% alpaca and 10% possum.  It is the softest freaking sock yarn I have ever touched.  Plus there was a customer in the store who had knit with it and totally raved about it.  And then to top it off, look at the colour.  I have been searching for a lovely soft purplish yarn for a long time and it will so match my new top!  The colour reminds me of lupines.  I Loooooooooove lupines.  But I wavered, yes, no, yes, no, maybe, no……….

So then guess what was sitting in a basket right beside the checkout counter?  A Fiber Trends pattern by Evelyn A Clark for a pair of socks called Lupine Lace Socks.  Can you believe it?  And that is how I cheated on my yarn diet!  I went and got the yarn and the pattern and here they are, happy as can be, at my house!  Just waiting for me to match them together for a perfectly gorgeous pair of socks.  For me.  Nobody else is getting them.  Me.

And yes, I am still on a sock yarn diet.  But now it is only for sock yarns brands that I already have.  If I were to come across a yarn that I have never knit with and is drop dead gorgeous, I am allowing myself to get one.  Only if it is absolutely amazing and wonderful. Duh! 

4 comments:

lexa said...

Possum?!?! I may have to get some of that.

Heddy said...

wel ... the pattern is prety, the yarn is gorgeous, and as for the Diet ... everything in moderation ;) Seems like a good mantra for an occasional cheat, eh? I don't think it is healthy to totally deprive oneself of all good things, otherwise you end up going on a yarn bender, binging on even nasty yarn, just stuffing your cart with whatever is closeby! So, a treat now and then is a healthier way to be on a Yarn Diet, IMHO

Amphibiaknitter said...

Hmmm.... Methinks a drive down to Mahone Bay is in order. That's great looking yarn. Washable possum -- who knew?

What's your "local" yarn store that's shutting down? There are only about 4 yarn store in the entire province, as near as I can tell.

Donna M said...

The local yarn store is the Ball & Skein which is part of Memory Lane down on the waterfront.

 

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