Knitting and Retail Therapy

Burt and I have been diligently knitting away. We got back into sock knitting since I needed something small to work on. Shawls are nice but big, especially shawls with three colors to carry around.

I managed to finish a project too. Momma now has rainbow socks to match Daddy's rainbow socks. He is actually wearing his pair today.I was just so thrilled with the way his turned out that I decided I needed a pair too. I love them so much. 

We went to a used book store a while back and I was lamenting not getting some knitting books back in the day. The thought occurred to me that I can indeed still go book shopping at Powell's Books, I just have to wait a bit to get them. OK fine Joyful Colorwork Socks is not a back in the day book, it is new but hey we all need joyful socks right now.

It used to be I had to want to knit a few patterns before I would buy a book. This is how I missed out on some great books, this time I picked some inspiration only books and one came with a bonus leaflet pattern. Thanks unknown knitter for weeding this book and bonus leaflet from your collection into mine.

I pulled out some totes from my yarn collection and it made me so happy to have color palettes to play with. I mean really how beautiful is all that yarn?

So I had to go out and add to the collection. I wanted to support a local yarn store and avoid tariffs. While I love color, I am learning I need more neutrals to work with also. But that orange? I had to have it.

I had been thinking and I really wanted another skein of that turquoise yarn I bought a while back. Alas the local yarn store didn't have any more so maybe a little online therapy was needed. And I really needed a few more state license plate stitch markers. I now have four of the six states we have lived in.  I could no longer resist a deck of colorwork cat patterns. Looks like a kitty cowl or mitts is in my future. I would love to get better at colorwork.

And yet here I am again knitting a plain sock with fantastic orange yarn. Some things and people are wonderfully consistent. Like new yarn just jumps on to my needles sometimes. Don't worry Burt has approved new sock knitting and current shawl knitting. But I will talk about that one next time.