First of all, I must apologize for the typo in yesterday's title. It is particularly galling to me, since I pride myself on being such a perfectionistic picker of nits and a proofreader extraordinaire. To miss such a glaring error is... humbling.
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The Saga of The Perfect Buttons is ended. Remember how I said it wasn't worth a 150-mile round trip to get the perfect, colored wooden buttons? Well, something came up yesterday* and I had to make a flying trip into Minneapolis. So, as long as I was there anyway...
Behold!
Perfect, no? Thank you, Needlework Unlimited. $3.75 well spent.
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Of course, I couldn't walk out of a yarn shop without picking up a couple-three other items.
This is worsted-weight cotton that will become a long skinny scarf to wear with an olive-green pantsuit I have that is too boring for words as is. I plan to make Sally Melville's Shape-It scarf in The Knit Stitch, a pattern I never looked at twice until I saw one that Vicki made. The colors in my yarn, which don't show up well in the photo, are grayed navy, gold, olive, and pink, with the navy predominant. I wanted something that wasn't too bold (so I would not be self-conscious while wearing it, especially at work) and cotton (so I wouldn't die of heat prostration while wearing it, especially at work). This should be perfect.
Well, I hope so, anyway . Bamboo yarn would have been better -- such nice hand and drape -- but I couldn't find any in a suitable color combination. I plan to knit this on the biggest needles that work, so as to enhance the drape. Hope it works.
My US#3 Addi has gone walkabout somewhere in my house; several hunting safaris have not yielded any results so I bought another one. And I like to enclose a little bottle of Eucalan whenever I give a hand-wash knit item to a non-knitting recipient.
There you have it.
* We are refinancing the Minneapolis house, and the appraisal came in significantly lower -- like, 25% lower! -- than the assessed valuation of the house, upon which the property taxes are based. Smokey has been grumbling for several years that he thinks the assessed value was too high. We probably would never have thought to spend $350 to have it appraised (duh! on us -- if the protest goes through it will save us $1500 the first year alone) but since we now have documented professional proof that the house is not worth what the city says it is, we will protest their valuation. When we checked the website yesterday to see what the procedure was, we discovered that the petition must be filed by... April 30. Which was yesterday. Hence, the flying trip.
