European Yarn

I have been procrastinating in posting an update for sometime now. I finished my monkey socks a long time ago an they are fabulous! When you look closely, though, you can tell which sock i knitted first. Oh well, no one else will know unless they knit.


And have since finished my vest except for the neck ribbing. I have also made a camera cozy for the camera I got for graduation! out of molly's leftover sock yarn and my mom's wooden beads.






I got some amazing brushed suri yarn in canada as well as some wool sock yarn which i might have mentioned before, not sure though. The sock yarn I am going to use to knit the hedera socks by Cookie on knitty. This will be a small project to work on while I am in England and Spain in June. On that subject, I was looking at some other blogs. One by a girl who went to Spain and knit shops there and another girl named Betty and Urraca who she wrote about on her blog. From these three sites and another random one, I found the name of some knit stores in Madrid! De Puntillos and Lanas Sixto, also Katia (i think.) I am super excited now! European yarn! yay! Anyway, with my brushed suri yarn that I mentioned earlier, I want to knit a really thin lacey v-neck sweater vest with cables and what not so if anyone has a pattern or knows where I can find a pattern for that it would be super!

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Yesterday I went to Romni Wools to pick up the above for ma sœur. That store is absolutely amazing, and it's probably a good thing that I'm leaving Toronto next week. Rather sad, but I have exciting things coming up. Including yarn stores in the Bay area that have knitting group/chocolate tasting. That may sweeten the deal a bit.

But before I went to Romni, I stopped by Knit-o-matic, which isn't such a trek to get to (though I love walking down Queen Street, so it's usually a fun trek). While they didn't have the Mille Colori/Tonalita (I'm not sure what's up with that), they did have a chunky white wool I've been looking for forever to make a cute little shrug.



I actually bought some pretty pale green Manos del Uruguay for it already, but when I knit a swatch the changing weight made it look not quite as tidy as I'd like for this project. So I got the white, which wasn't too bad, especially as I only need two balls. It's a really simple project, but I keep doing stupid things for some reason.



That's the second time I've done it; the first time was right in the front, and I had already finished the increases. But I tore it all out, started over, and promptly screwed up again. I guess I need to stop knitting when I'm tired : ) If I just pay attention, it should knit up over the weekend.