Sedona Update

Knowing me, it won't surprise you that I have already bought yarn, and lace yarn at that. On our arrival in Sedona last Tuesday, I realized that I had the #8 circular but not the #7 that I would need to complete the baby blanket. So I wandered into Red Rock Knits, less than a mile from my sister's house, to check out needles. Since I had Mr. Pug with me, I bought the needle and skedaddled, telling him there was nothing of interest and making a private note of some gorgeous dyed-in-Sedona lace noil yarn.

Now, here's where my friends the Enablers come in. Have I ever been interested in silk noil lace yarn? Heck no. But I had just read an email (on my cellphone since my laptop wouldn't work!!!) from Ellen who queried the other members of the Zephyr Acquisition Club about silk noil lace yarn. None of us knew anything about it, but there it was in front of me.....

Darn you, Ellen. The next day I waited until Mr. P was otherwise occupied and raced back and bought the yarn. Isn't it gorgeous? But of course it called out to me--it's handpainted. Don't I have lots of handpainted lace yarns that I don't knit into shawls and stoles because that's really not the best use of handpainted? Yup! But the owner had a beautiful triangular shawl hanging up, made of the same yarn, and she gave me the pattern so I guess I'll do that with it eventually.

Now about that Zephyr Acquisition Club. One of our guild members noticed that Zephyr prices had just gone up but that Sarah's Yarns had a better price for cones if you bought four or more. She certainly didn't need four, but she knew some other Zephyr addicts who might. The end result was an order was placed (for seven cones I think). Now a cone is 5,000 yards, so we are well supplied with lace yarn. I'm anxious to see mine when I get back.

Back to the baby blanket. Here it is, ready for my first great niece. God, that makes me feel old! The bad news is that my sister has now stated rather loudly that she thinks that she deserves a grandmother-sized version. Since I have lots of projects in the pipeline, I think I'll have to teach her how to make it. But I'm very pleased with it, and I hope the parents will be, too. (And if they're not, I'm sure their pugs or mine would be happy to sleep on it.)




Finally, a Hanami update. As you can see, I've got a long way to go. I'm making it longer so the first chart has 8 repeats. I've completed 2.5. Then there are all those other charts. Oh, my!