Yarn!!!!!!

I ordered some yarn and a book from KnitPicks about a week ago. It came today! I'm very excited about this new yarn. Usually I get my yarn from either Walmart or Hobby Lobby. So usually my yarn is mostly acrylic, and if you've done much yarn shopping you know it's hard to find real soft yarn that is acrylic. I do like the I Love This Yarn from Hobby Lobby. I've found it to always be pretty soft and easy to knit with. But, this new yarn from KnitPicks is all natural. Here's the run down of what I ordered, and what I plan to do with it!First off, I got 4 deals of Wool of the Andes. 100% Peruvian Highland Wool. 2 different colors, Stream and Sapphire Heather. Both of these colors are beautiful. I really love the Sapphire Heather. Each ball is 110 yards. I'm thinking about a skinny scarf, like an accent scarf rather than a keep you warm scarf. I'm not 100% positive what I am going to do with them, I just had to have the colors.Second. I got 4 balls of Palette. 100% Peruvian Wool. Colors: Black, Rainforest Heather, Fog, and Clematis Heather. I'm planning on knitting some mittens. I also ordered the book Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition. This book has some amazing mittens in it! I can't wait to knit every pattern. I got the Palette to make these mittens. Each ball is 231 yards, so I figure I can get a set of mittens out of each ball.Third. I got 3 things of Telemark. 100% Peruvian Highland Wool. Colors: Colonial Blue, Delphinium Heather, and Snow Leopard. I had intended to get 4 things. However, I forgot to order the 4th one. So that will have to come in another order in the future. Maybe in a few months after I knit the rest of this stuff up. I believe these will also become mittens as well. Each ball is 103 yards.Fourth. I got two types of lace weight yarn. first is the Alpaca Cloud. 440 yards of 100% Baby Alpaca. It is so soft! The color is Raspberry Heather. It is so pretty and sooooo soft! I love it. I believe it is going to become a real pretty lace scarf. I'm super excited about the alpaca yarn!The second lace weight yarn is Shimmer. 70% Baby Alpaca and 30% Silk. It is super soft. The color is Stained Glass. The colors in it are so vibrant and so pretty. I absolutely love it! It is going to become a shawl. It is also a 440 yard hank. So pretty. I've been petting it this afternoon.Now I have to take the hanks and turn them into balls before I can knit them. I don't even want to think about trying to untangle lace weight yarn.

One last item to report. I finished my first stranded project. A hat. I turned out real good. I'm very proud of it. The brown and pink turned out real good, a lot better than I thought it was going to turn out. I'm not working on a second stranded hat in black and white.

I also have a hat pattern of my own in the works right now. I think it will turn out pretty good. I'm planning on knitting it in a light purple with the chart pattern in a dark purple. It should turn out. If it turns out real good I might post the pattern for others to use. Well just have to wait and see. I have lots going on. I want to finish the black and white hat and the purple feather and fan scarf I have going before I start on the mittens and my purple hat. So may projects and so much yarn to choose from.

Until next time!

~~HAPPY KNITTING~~