I got home about 11:30 Monday night after my weekend travels to visit old friends. The dogs came with me. They are good travelers.
Here they are in the back of the Aveo. Mostly they slept, but sometimes Lucy watched over my shoulder so she could navigate. And whenever I got out of the car, when I came back she was in the driver's seat. Every single time.
Since this is purportedly a knitting blog, I shall tell you about the souvenir yarn that came home with me. My friend Connie tried to take me to a yarn shop but apparently it had gone out of business. No LYS in Grand Forks, North Dakota, folks, only Michael's and JoAnne Fabrics. Not to worry, though, I still managed to pick up some of that fuzzy string:
Light blue, pale lime green, and terra cotta -- this Cotton Ease will make dandy unisex striped preemie hats for Jeanne's annual January preemie hat extravaganza.
I was working on socks and mittens for the Soaring Eagles Project* while on my travels, and I picked up some red, green, and cream Wool-Ease to go with the variegated Plymouth Encore Colorspun I had along. No photos of that, too boring. I'll take pictures of the finished items before I mail them off.
In Park Rapids to see my old friend Kathy (she IS my oldest friend -- I've known her since we were 14, and she is one day older than I am) I hit the jackpot. Turns out there is an excellent yarn shop in town, Monika's Quilt Shop. Kathy frequents the store because she is a quilter, so she gave me a tour of the vast selection of quilt fabrics. Then we walked into the yarn section.
Heaven! Cascade, Noro, Misty Alpaca, Malabrigo, and lots, lots more. Lovely colors, lots of knitted swatches, nicely arranged, a wide range of prices and qualities and brands -- truly everything a knitter might want. The Cascade 220 was $6.60/skein, which struck me as a very good price. It was amazing to me to find such a well-stocked yarn store with decent prices in my old home town. I kept telling Kathy I wanted to move it to my current stomping grounds.
I got some washable worsted weight wool for Soaring Eagles Project mittens in lively kid colors:
And some sock yarn, destined to be double-stranded with some slightly mottled pale beige Trekking for a pair of gift socks next year:
Yes, I'm going to double-strand Trekking. Life is too short to knit on US#0s. Or even US#1s.
* Thanks to all of you who have stepped up to the challenge! I bet we will help Rachel reach her goal in time.
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It is winter here today.
Lucy has the right idea:
Wrap your tail 'round your nose and take a nap.
