i've been trying to get to downtown yarns at avenue a between third and fourth streets for a week now. m. and c. came with me to pick out yarn for m's friend's birthday present. i'm making her the ballet top from teva durham's loop d loop book. it was a tough choice and took me awhile with m. getting a bit impatient but i finally settled on two skeins of ty dy's bluish purplish cotton mix along with two skeins of frog tree's pima silk in a kind of sky/wedgewood blue. one of these days i'm going to do a project with mission falls cotton, and manos cotton. probably not at the same time . . ha ha. m. couldn't pass up a skein of kid seta in a gorgeous blue. the store had some beautiful mohair scarves in a simple garter stitch on display and m. is inspired to create one for herself. i also picked up a skein of a deep blue in malabrigo cotton for k. to make herself a pair of long fingerless gloves to accompany her new york jedi costume (she's at the "clone wars" tonight with some other jedi friends). blue seems a bit popular today.
as you can see i couldn't pass up a pair of smooth empress bamboo knitting needles in their warm leather brown case.and c. had fun replacing the grasshoppers in their wooly web home from which they had fallen.
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