Liesel, I Love Ya

I finally found the yarn I want to use for Liesel!! (Plus several other yarns I just had to have...)

Isn't that lovely?! :D I think it will look great on the elm leaf design of Liesel.

Here is a close up so you can see just how YUMMY my yarn is.

It's Cascade Success, which is 50% Alpaca and 50% Mulberry Silk,  in color 612.

This stuff is deadly soft. *happy dance*

In related news I joined the Amazing Lace KAL yesterday.

Jae mentioned it on her blog yesterday and being the curious Otter than I am I had to go check it out. How funny that I've been playing with lacey/open stitches lately and was jumping to get started with Liesel. *GRIN*

I totally blame Jae for this, btw. :P

I bought some other yarns when I was at my oldest newest LSY. VERY friendly. The other place doesn't have an attitude problem or anything, they just don't welcome you in, offer you a cup of tea a place to knit and interesting conversation. :D I'm going to Knitting Group Get together next week. That's why I originally headed over, so that I'd be able to find it during rush hour traffic. I'm really pleased so far.

Oh and it's not far at all from my favorite naughty shop. *snicker* I can get yarn and a flogger on the same shopping trip. Wheeeeeeeeee!

:P

Anyway so the yarn I purchased in these next images was all 50% off except the skeined Lamb's Pride. Goodness. It was like Bargain Bin Heaven. *L*

Here are my other Goodies. :D

This is Evita. This is actually closer to the color I was envisioning for Liesel. It's a cotton/acrylic/rayon blend from Germany and won't block like natural animal fibers so no Liesel. But it was so lovely I wouldn't pass it up. ;)

I'm adding these Lamb's Prides to my yarn to be dyed stash. *L*

Cascade 220 @ 50% off. So Cool. I love the colors. I think I might make a bag with them... maybe Wobbly Circles... I have another color that would compliment these in my stash I believe....

Close Up: Look at how cool these colors look together! :D

Nothing like getting yummy yarn at a discount to make the world seem brighter. ;)

Comments

[Cookie]

Did the Cascade Success come in other colors? Might work for Clapotis...

Does the honey know about this yarn? *L* And when does the dyeing happen?

[jae]

Hey! If I'm going to spend all summer in a tangle of forgotten yarnovers, dropped stitches, and misplaced decreases, I'm bringing along as many people with me as I can. ;)

I haven't seen Cascade Success in my LYS. It looks yummy!!

[Ann]

I am having serious yarn envy tonight. I went to the LYS today and didn't buy anything, I just signed up for a class. Could that be because of all of the dyed yarn piled up around my knitting nook?

I am not sure I am ready for lace knitting yet..I am afraid I might kill someone out of frustration and I really am trying to stay out of prison these days.

I look forward to your progress photos.

Ann

[Paul]

"Oh and it's not far at all from my favorite naughty shop. *snicker* I can get yarn and a flogger on the same shopping trip. Wheeeeeeeeee!"

Oh, Otter...... *sigh*

(I knew there was a dark side...)

(and I'm SO surprised Ann had NOTHING to say about that quote!)