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.)