I went to a knitting store yesterday. I had nothing to do this weekend, and all I do when I'm not at work is sit at home so I figured I should do something other than that for at least a couple of hours. As I have no car I had to take the Metro, and the one I went to in Bethesda meant that I had to take the Red Line basically from one end to the other. A 40 minute trip one way, basically, plus $2.45 each way. But I got to walk a few blocks from the station to the store, and walking's always nice. Even if it is crazy hot here. I didn't really have any goals or aims for this visit, and I've only been in a non-commercial (aka JoAnn, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc) yarn store one other time, back home, and it was intimidating. As was this. And both were expensive. Non-commercial yarn/homemade yarn/nice yarn is expensive. My favorite stuff, Caron Simply Soft, is usually around $3 per skein, give or take (I've often managed to get it on sale, which is nice), and that's for over 300 yards of yarn. I did get myself a few balls of yarn yesterday, but I don't really know why as it was definitely more than $3 per ball and just over 100 yards per ball. Not financially wise, but I guess I figured I was there, and I've never really worked with nice, non-acrylic yarn, and maybe I can make something extra good for myself, or something. Who knows. I also got a book. I spent a LOT of time looking at the books there. Going back and forth, trying to decide if it was worth it (in reality, probably not, but I got a good one with some really awesome patterns. And it's a book specifically for gifts to give to people! So, really, it's beneficial for everyone!). You know me, I'm way indecisive, and so yeah. I was there awhile. Much longer than I needed to be. But I guess it was fun, in a way, and probably better than had I just sat at home and watched a few more episodes of Gilmore Girls, or whatever.
Well, once I got home I went back to knitting, of course. And watching more Gilmore Girls and stuff once the soccer game finished. (I'm no soccer fan, but it was the US, and the World Cup, and just the last few minutes of overtime, so why not.) Last week I knitted something like four headbands. I love headbands. They're super cute, even though I'm not quite decided whether or not they look good on me. But they also take like an hour to do, and not much yarn, so it's like win-win-win. Which is better than win-win. I guess they were good interim projects to get me really back into knitting like a fiend, because I have stuff I've promised for people that I need to make good on. I bought a boxfull of yarn from Joann back in March or something, or February, or sometime a long time ago, and the yarn was all for projects I had to do. And then things happened, and I did some of them, and then I didn't do most of them and I didn't do much knitting at all because of pesky things like deciding I had to be more serious about schoolwork and junk. And now here we are, almost July, really hot weather, perfect time to start knitting in earnest again, eh? Well. When I was still working on projects, I started on an afghan I should have had done back in January or February, if I were better. I stopped about maybe a fifth of the way through, because of school and stuff, and I had been doing afghan after afghan after afghan and I think I got a little sick of them. But I picked it up again this past week and am now about a third done, maybe a little less. And then I started another one that I want to have done by the time I go home (in 18 days!). I started it on Friday. And here's where I am now:
So anyway, afghans it is right now. These ones are good, too, because they're not too involved, and they're pretty quick knits (obviously, considering I basically did a third of an entire afghan in one night). Both of them are out of the Big Book of Quick Knit Afghans I bought last summer. (I've gotten a lot of use out of that thing. I think I've made at least four or five from it, and have these two I'm working on. Oh, and another one that is going to be a Christmas afghan at some point. I was supposed to work on it this summer, so I left it at home when I came back after Christmas. A lot of things I had planned for this summer didn't pan out...) Well. I'll be sure to post pictures when I'm done. I think they'll look good together; too bad they're going to completely different homes.
Next up: the saga of the stash.
(It's not really a saga so much as a "Man wouldn't it be nice if this were organized?")
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