Sometimes You Just Gotta Go!
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just need to get out of dodge. Sure, getting out the house helps some, but sometimes you just got to get out on a highway with the radio blaring and the sun beating in through the windshield and drive. Well, Wednesday was one of those days.
Right after water aerobics I hopped in my car and headed down to Loveland where I had lunch with DH at a great tex mex place near his work (it has the bonus that it gets DH some exercise as he walks to/from that restaurant), then I continued on down to Longmont and the knitting shop, Knit One, Purl Too (sorry no web site that I could find). Then I continued on into Boulder to visit Shuttles, Spindles and Skeins as well.
You see, I was on a mission. I’ve been working on a standed colorwork baby blanket to complement the Dalegarn Moons and Stars Blankie that Snow is currently knitting for twins arriving to a good friend this spring. She wanted a similar style and construction but different theme so the blankies are similar in difficulty yet different. Well, during this design process (there is a bit of a trip into my head and a sneak peek of the design, though not in it’s final form, as part of Creation Quotation Thursday this week if you head over there) I came up with a few colorways and we all liked them enough that I’m going to knit mini-blankies (aka swatches complete with borders) in at least one of the other colorways that will not be the full blankie. It will also provide me with something to steek at a group steeking party we will be having later this month. Even though I really need to learn to steek I’m having a tough time settling on mini blanket and instead have all these ideas for cute baby things using the same motifs. But I must resist the urge for now. Well, all this was to say I was on a mission for some specific colors of Baby Ull.
Knit One, Purl Too had a nice selection of classic yarns, though it seems that she did have a full line of colors in any of her yarns (a bit of a problem if you want to do stranded knitting). In Baby Ull she had only yellows, pinks, a bit of peach, and a bunch of brown. Since I’ve had about 25 other baby blanket/baby item themes running through my head and it is March, the month of pink and red, I opted to pick up three balls of varying shades of pink yarn. These might end up being socks, I’m not sure yet. I’m guessing I won’t get to them or much more of them than casting on in March, but at least I now have some Project Spectrum colors in my stash. I added a red and a white from Shuttles (as well as some others that I’ll share with you next week) and arrived at this very Project Spectrum photo.
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