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Monday, June 18, 2007

Reading international knitting blogs has infected me with taught me two new obsessions I never knew before: drooling over handpainted sock yarn and coveting stitch markers. I've never needed stich markers before. I'm a pretty practical gal when it comes to knitting supplies and accessories, and I've been perfectly happy with safety pins or paper clips. Now all those glass beads and cute charms make me go "ooh, shiny" and I want to buy them all. (Oh, wee ones, how you tempt me.) I've also become obsessed with the idea of making stitch markers although I've never ever tried jewelry making or bead crafting in my life. Go figure.

Last weekend my bf took me to a manly tool store and helped me pick pliers for my latest hobby. Awww. I also ordered beads and other materials online and I hope they'll arrive before Friday so I can fiddle with them over the long midsummer weekend. (No, wait, I'm supposed to be knitting socks...)

I've been drooling over tupasvilla's gorgeous cable hoodie (pattern available only in Finnish -- sorry!), and I'd thought about picking it up as a fall project once the season's new yarns and colors are revealed. On the same trip as I bought the pliers, we stopped by a general discount store to pick up some other stuff. I popped by their yarn deparment -- which is usually nothing special and carries the same boring Novita yarns as every damn store here -- and might have squealed a bit when I saw this:

The same yarn as in the pattern, in the same color, a gorgeous deep, dark teal -- at half price! It must be a clearance sale to get rid of last season's colors. I may have gone a little bonkers and bought more than enough to make the cardi. Just in case, you know? So I don't run out of yarn, right? Right? My bf let out an incredulous laughter when he saw my horde: 1 kg or 20 balls. But it was half the price! ;)