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My divulging at prior knit nights that I have never been to Knitters Mercantile has been met with much surprise. From what I gather, it is The LYS in the area. As a Columbus knitter, my failure to see was nothing less than a stain. I went today. Not out of peer pressure, mind you. That's the quickest way to get me not to do something. No, I decided that it was time, especially since I was in the marketplace for sock yarn.The short ride was hampered slightly by a traffic light still out from Sunday's windstorm. It sounded like the fund has been closed all week, so luckily power was restored there by the sentence I dropped in for my initial trip there.I was accepted by an employee and fellow knit night-er, so in no time she made some suggestions for the pattern I've chosen to knit next. I decided to go with the ONline Supersocke 6-fach, which is 75% superwash wool and 25% polyamid. (Since the twinkle in my office at night is insufficient for photographing yarn, I'll try to carry a show of it tomorrow. It's variegated with about three shades of blue, some brown, gray, and white. I splurged somewhat on it, so I better be more satisfied with it. Next time it's likely Knit Picks sock yarn for me. (This was something of an instant gratification purchase.)I too required the appropriate size of dpns, so I bought a set of Brittany US 4s in birch. I'm hoping they won't see the yarn quite as often as the Clover Takumi bamboo dpns I've used.So, I'm all set to get another couple of socks, although I want to find from this frantic first week of classes and home electricity interruption first.Note/question to Donna, per her last comment: a vest? Explain/justify. I want some convincing.

Labels: knitting, local yarn shop, socks, yarn

Author: Knitting Confidential