What is it about the change in the weather that causes the crafting bug to spawn out of control? As the calendar flips from August to October there seems to be a mental change in me that has to pull out the yarn stash and begin projects. Ok, fine. I don’t pull out the yarn stash. I give a half-hearted glance at the yarn stash, realize that there couldn’t possibly be anything in there I could use for my current ambitions and start cruising the online yarn establishments like some predator.
I find the yarn that fits the project I’m craving and away I go. Then while I’m waiting for the yarn to arrive from my online purchase, I look at the possibilities of more projects. I find a few cool ones, order some more yarn and away I go. But this time to the yarn store. The yarn from the first purchase won’t be delivered for at least a week. I need something now! I call my fiber buddy (aka: The Enabler) and head off to meet him at the semi-local yarn store.1
I have a project in mind. I know what I want to do. And thanks to the store owner, I found the most delicious mohair blend in two subtly-yummy colors. I need seven skeins. She has two. She has to order more. It will be a couple of weeks.2
Safely back home I realize that when all is said and done I have four types of yarn being shipped to me, an additional one on backorder and have yet to start on a project.
I turn and look with a deep interest at my yarn stash.
- Local to me is a click of my left mouse button. Semi-local is a 15 minute diversion from my regular commute. ↩
- It took five. Some evil yarn troll came out from under their bridge, saw my specially ordered yarn at the store and decided that was just what they needed for their own project. The owner had to order my yarn a second time. ↩
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December 12, 2008 at 7:25 am (UTC -8 )
[...] you can imagine after the mass ordering of yarn, the inevitable happened. It all arrived within days of each other. No problem. I will tackle [...]
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January 7, 2009 at 9:51 pm (UTC -8 )
[...] This is one of those patterns that I got a little advanced notice on Ravelry that it was coming out in the Nov/Dec issue of Crochet Today. I fell in love with the preview pictures I saw from Drew Emborsky (the designer). I knew the issue wasn’t going to hit the shelves for a couple of weeks but I immediately asked him for the yardage needed so I could scope out yarn (you can read about the yarn scoping/buying pain here). [...]
Crochet: The Perfect V-neck | says:
February 11, 2011 at 7:11 am (UTC -8 )
[...] This is one of those patterns that I got a little advanced notice on Ravelry that it was coming out in the Nov/Dec issue ofCrochet Today. I fell in love with the preview pictures I saw from Drew Emborsky (the designer). I knew the issue wasn’t going to hit the shelves for a couple of weeks but I immediately asked him for the yardage needed so I could scope out yarn (you can read about the yarn scoping/buying pain here). [...]