Jon's Knit Blog

No Yarn Diet Here

So I was blog-cruising last night, and I found a lot of talk about some NYC yarn stores which I had not previously found. (Thanks for the great list, Liz!)

So today before work, I went by String which is on Madison between 78th and 79th, if you're in the city. It's a cute store, albeit a small one, but they have some nice things, and a fantastic selection of cashmere yarns (which I left there, thank you very much). Turns out that one of their staffers is a great designer - the cute green Koigu kersti zipper hooded cardi in the current Vogue Knitting mag is by her! And they had a trunk show of some of the sweaters in the current VK! They were uniformly gorgeous, and I met a fabulous woman in the shop who I hope to get to hang out with and discuss knitting again. They didn't have my favorite sweater from the magazine, which is the Cable/Lace cardigan knit in Paton's "Grace." I want to learn to crochet so I can make this sweater, which has an all-around dc border. I know there's someone out there who wants to teach me. Come forth! Admit yourself!

Anyhow, I only went into the shop with the intention of picking up two or three balls from which to make interesting afghan squares for Mason Dixon afghan project since the acrylic sucks and I don't really have much in the way of "leftovers" populating my stash.

So what did I find?

It's a gorgeously soft 50/50 silk/merino blend, Alchemy's Synchronicity and it was 50% off. I bought the last of these colors, though, so don't get any ideas... Here's a close up of the yarn, and somehow my digital camera seemed to actually get the color fairly right on: Fibery Goodness! Get your Fibery Goodness!. The solid is Red Wing; the stripey is Air & Fire.

I think it's going to become some sort of sweater for me. Maybe a cardigan? I hope there's enough yarn to make it... which will be enhanced by the fact that while I am not on a yarn diet, I am on a food diet (the South Beach Diet, to be precise) so by the time I finish the sweater, there will be less of me to ensconce within said sweater.

The detail oriented reader may notice that there's a single ball in that picture which doesn't belong. True. It is a variegated ball of Primo which I intend to knit into a 'from the center out, YO increases at the corners' afghan square, to see if it works (and to practice my yarnovers in preparation for my future lace-knitting projects I want to try). The other thing in the picture is an ebony circular needle (US7) which is the needle I intend to use for this lucious silk/merino wool.

What else? Oh, I don't know. I probably have to go buy more yarn.

Posted by Jon at March 31, 2004 12:56 AM