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September 27, 2005
Two Knitting Posts In One Day!
Last month, I was stuck up in the Adirondacks for two whole weeks with a gazillion knitting needles and only two measly little balls of cotton yarn. I needed desperately to knit a baby blanket, and I had planned to buy yarn once I got up there, but there were no yarn shops around for miles. Luckily my friend Beth brought me a care package of 1) a sweater pattern 2) Addi Turbo knitting needles and 3) yarn (she read my mind -- I hadn't even told her about the no-yarn-shop-dilemma), so I didn't go completely insane in the woods.
In desperation, toward the end of my vacation, I went to JoAnn Fabrics and bought some acrylic stuff for a blanket, but next to the cotton yarn it looked so artificial. To this day, I have two inches of a baby blanket knit up with the acrylic yarn (and substandard needles), and various mis-matched swatches of possible baby blanket squares made from the (expensive) cotton yarn I had. The babies due for blankets in my life (and there are several, all of the sudden) are going to be teenagers by the time I get my act together. I just can't seem to get beyond the "but I already started this one" phase and start all over again. I could sew the swatches together for a quilt effect (I have four that are about a foot square), but I'm not sure if I can coordinate the colors properly. I could also just finish the acrylic thing, but that might take years, since the pattern seems to be for a humungous blanket.
Today (a month too late), I found out about Adirodack Yarns through Yarn Harlot, of all places. My Yellow Page lookup skills must be pathetic. Infuriating. Adirondack Yarns wasn't exactly close, but it was only about an hour away -- not a lot considering that the supermarket's 20 minutes away. They even have wireless internet access, which means I could have been a bona fide knitblogger for once. I swear I asked at all the cute shops upstate if there might possibly be a yarn store nearby, but no, nothing. ARgh.
Posted by csageday at September 27, 2005 06:20 PM