This weekend was Stitches West, and as usual, my mom and I headed down there for two days of wandering around the market, buying stuff. No, we don’t bother with classes, we’re in it for Stuff Acquisition. Friday, we drove down with my aunt as well and stopped at Kinokinuya in San Jose as well (and we got caught in Friday commute traffic coming back up). Saturday it was just my mom and I and we also stopped for In-N-Out burgers.
Here’s what I got:
Oh DEAR that is a lot of yarn.
From left to right: Sanguine Gryphon Skinny Bugga! in Ruddy Daggerwing, Sanguine Gryphon Bugga! in Lubber Grasshopper, Wool Candy in Capsicum (?), Skinny Bugga! in Boxelder Beetle, Bugga! in Pink Dragonfly, Creatively Dyed Yarn Sami in Falling Springs (the picture does not do this yarn justice – it’s a deep magenta that glows in the sunlight), Miss Babs Yummy Sock yarn in Indigo Bunting, Sanguine Gryphon Eidos in Antlia, Eidos in Hydra.
Yeah yeah, six skeins of Sanguine Gryphon, whatever. 😉
It’s a favorite, what can I say? Their booth was really great, and it was so nice to see all the yarn displayed in real life as I have only ordered the yarn from the internets before.
Incidentally, I finished my Brandywine shawl out of Skinny Bugga! and wore it on Day 1. It got a ton of compliments and there were many grabby knitter hands feeling it up, haha! As one lady said, “It’s the knitter’s handshake!” …heh.
It’s awesome.
I only did one mod and it’s not really a mod – for the main chart I did 18 repeats instead of 15, simply because I wanted to use as much of the yarn as possible. And I wound up with very little, so it worked out great.
Anyway, here’s the other stuff I got, mostly a ton of patterns!
Don’t you just LOVE that sweater on the newest Norah Gaughan collection? I sure do. I will have to figure out what I want to make it with. However there are a couple of patterns in the other Berroco booklets I got that I want to make first – they will be totally doable on the knitting machine, as will the White Lies Designs t-shirt pattern in the first pattern photo.
Tonight I cast on for the Bellingrath shawl above, though not in Stitches yarn – in Madelinetosh Sock that I got recently (Christmas-time-ish, I think). Not sure yet what I am going to do with all that gratuitous Bugga up there, but I am sure it will be awesome.
And now I can’t buy yarn for ages. (Except I totally ordered new Felici from Knitpicks today as I needed some needles. Whatevs. Shut up. I had an extra paycheck with overtime on it.)
oooh, you have so many awesome goodies!! I’m obsessed with that New Norah Gaughan pattern booklet, it looks AMAZING.
Nice haul! Mine’s all teal or blue and purple, save one skein of Creatively Dyed Calypso that is hot, hot pink. LOL 🙂 I also got the Playful Stripes and Oak Leaf Mitts patterns, plus a few more, from NNK, and I wish I would’ve gotten some BErroco books, but WEBS’ line was SUPER long, and I didn’t feel like standing in such a long line for just a few booklets. LOL
Thanks! It was definitely fun picking all that stuff out. And – yes, the new NG is so awesome, I can’t get that cover sweater out of my mind, I must have it! 🙂
I managed to hit WEBS at just the right time, when I was done with my purchase, the line stretched way back! I so want to make the Oak Leaf Mitts, they are just so pretty – and the playful stripes top is too cute! I wish I knew someone having a baby girl (it’s all boys around these parts). :/
Soooo jealous I can only knit a straight line ( think scarf) love that last sweater and the shawl – beautiful work!