I started the second bootie this morning, I'll deal with sewing them up when they're both finished.
Today I headed over to the Woolly Lamb in Pennington and picked up some Classic Elite Soft Linen, after reading the review of it on Knitter's Review the other day. The Woolly Lamb is the only LYS around here that stocks it, apparently. Pins and Needles here in Princeton does not, unfortunately, since it's only about 2 miles from our apartment. Anyway, plan to use it to make Glee from zephyrstyle.com
Well, they also had a giant SALE sign in the window. So I checked out the sale table which included some Cascade Sierra (80% pima cotton, 20% merino wool) at 40% off! So I picked up 3 skeins worth, which will give me enough to make some kind of summery top, TBD.
And... 25% off Elsebeth Lavold Silky Tweed. (40% silk, 30% cotton, 20% merino, 10% viscose) which is apparently discontinued? Anyway, project for this is also TBD, but I picked up 5 sk. (~655 yds?) which should be enough for a short sleeve/three-quarter sleeve top or a smallish clapotis, don't know yet. I think I want to make the textured tunic from Fitted Knits, but if I use this yarn I'd have to make the sleeves shorter than long sleeve to have enough yardage.
I'm justifying these purchases because I had signed up for a swap in the "Caffeine Addicts" group on Ravelry, and it seems that the moderator for the swap is MIA and matches were due out on March 8th. Soooo instead of spending that cash on a swap partner, I got myself some goodies. Plus if I'm making myself some cute tops, I have less of a desire to go shopping :-p
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