Back to Knitting (I Hope!)

So my house flooded.

That was cool.

It wasn't cool, but we're fine and my house will be okay after we rebuild.

I lost all my yarn.

My sister is a gem.

Enough with the fragments! My sister recently passed through Nacogdoches, TX, with my brother-in-law on a business trip, and found the lovely store, Yarnia. Y'all, when she called me and said she found a store named Yarnia, I about died. I am a huge nerd (as you may have gathered from the title of my blog and the cosplay posts), and when you make PUNS off of one of my favourite book series with YARN, I can't even. I think I fangirl squealed in the middle of the restaurant. I had just lost some beautiful purple sock yarn from The Quarter Stitch in New Orleans in the flood, and I was mourning my never-made socks. She got me a beautiful skein of Manos del Uruguay Alegria in a variegated purple. She also got me 2 skeins of Crystal Palace's Mini Mochi in 331 Yosemite, which is a beautiful mix of tans, browns, oranges, and greens.

Alegria - 8717 Bataclana. Actual color is more blue than this - phone photo in indoor lighting.

Mini Mochi in 331 Yosemite

For my sock yarn, I'm debating between knitting Business Casual socks or Nutkin socks. I'm leaning more towards the business casual for 2 reasons: The Nutkin pattern has a smooth cuff using a purl row to fold the cuff under for a beautiful finish. However, I have the weirdest stinking calves and everything I knit for my legs just steadily travels down to my ankles. This kind of cuff would likely just exacerbate the issue. The Alegria yarn also varies from almost black to almost white, and I think the Business Casual socks will do a better job of showing off the yarn.

For the Mini Mochi, I'm looking at knitting a slouchy hat for my amazing sister. The last slouchy beanie I knit for her has definitely worn down to a point that it doesn't really stay on any more. It's been years! So it's totally her color, she has dark red hair and would look like a freaking autumn fairy with all those browns and greens on her head. I want to find a leafy, autumnal pattern for that hat.

Hi, hello, I love you, see you later.