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Completed large basket and almost completed medium
basket with lots of Thick and Quick still to use up! |
I've gone a little crazy this week -- yarn crazy. I'm still working on
crocheted baskets. My daughter has requested a set of nesting baskets. I guess she assumes I have some kind of control over the size they turn out. I finished a large one and then ran out of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick and Quick partway through the middle-sized basket. I made several trips to two different Michael's stores and only found one more skein in the correct color, barley. I called around and even looked online, and the Michael's web site was out, too. Then I discovered four skeins at my local Jo-Ann Fabric, so yesterday I rushed over and bought all of them. I should have more than enough to finish the set of three baskets. And isn't that what yarn hoards are all about? Having more than enough?
While I was milling around Jo-Ann, I came across
Crochet Noro, published by Sixth&Spring Books. While I told myself that I can find plenty of lovely free patterns on Ravelry, I didn't listen and splurged on it. My first project is going to be the Strawberry Lace Scarf. The Noro Shiraito yarn called for in the pattern, however, costs $30 for 198 yards, and two skeins are needed. I can't see that much of a splurge, so today I drove about twenty miles to a neighboring town with a larger Jo-Ann Fabric. I knew from their web site that they had Premier Serenity Garden yarn in stock. I went with the intention of picking up three skeins of the hibiscus color. Well, here's what I came home with:
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| I think I was feeling colorful. |
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| Gotta love the red sticker! |
Yes, that's twelve skeins of yarn. Four Serenity Garden in hibiscus, four in crocus, and four Hipster yarns in flamingo. The Hipster yarn was on clearance. It has a cool name and it's pink, so I couldn't resist it. And at $1.97 each, why not? When I texted my daughter that I'd bought twelve skeins of yarn, she wanted to know what I am planning to make. Um, scarves . . . because the gazillion scarves already in the scarf drawer don't count? Actually, it's because I am getting ready to drive down to Tennessee for my third week-long visit in six weeks. While I am there, I need plenty of projects to keep me busy. Last trip, my mother kept asking if I wasn't tired of crocheting baskets. The answer to that was no, but I made a doily just to be agreeable. (My first thread doily. It was pretty bad, so there's no photo.)
As you can imagine, I'm not making all these nine-and-a-half-hour drives just for fun, but these colorful yarns will be sure to provide a bright spot in the next week.
