Wednesday, October 27, 2004

When I was at Lettuce Knit for Amy's book signing, I bought a skein of Blue Sky Alpaca Bulky Hand Dyed Yarn that looked like cotton candy. Foolishly I only bought one skein. Not enough for the scarf I envisioned. What was I thinking? Must have been the chocolate cake on the brain. I unknit and made the scarf narrower and narrower, but it just wasn't enough.

I searched my usual yarn haunts for the stuff... nothing. Then I found Spirit Work Knitting and Designs on the Blue Sky website. ( I am loving Blue Sky... yummy yarns, cute patterns and it all comes from these critters... "alpaca is a small, rare and curious and intelligent fiber producing animal sheared once a year for the most luxurious fiber in the world" I want an alpaca... but who am I kidding? I can't even get yarn off of my rabbit) A call affirmed they had the yarn in question.... a visit and I was entranced. It is a wonderful, wonderful shop. Large yet cozy with couches to snuggle into and every yarn imaginable. And they have knitting classes around a big kitchen table. If you are in Rochester and you have a propensity for collecting yarn... you gotta check it out.

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  1. AprilleOctober 28, 2004 at 8:58 AM

    There were a few days, maybe a few weeks, a couple of jobs ago, where I was ready to leave research behind and become an alpaca farmer. I really was almost ready to do it.

    I don't think I'd really be good at it, though.

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  2. Local EggOctober 28, 2004 at 9:27 AM

    I bought 2 skeins of this yarn for the same reason!! So soft and such yummy colors. I made a seed stitch scarf with light pink ends and an off center apple green part in the middle. If you can't find the same dye lot as your original skein, this would work. It's cute and graphic-y and super fast to churn out.

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  3. PixieOctober 28, 2004 at 10:30 AM

    We have a neighbor up the road who own a landscaping business, raise trees on their land & have a bunch of alpacas. They are cuuute!

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  4. JuliaOctober 28, 2004 at 11:15 AM

    You were in my old part of town! My mom belongs to a local (Rochester-area) sewing guild and the members just rave about this store. I think the guild is mostly for sewing, but if they have a knitting group I'll let you know since they do retreats and trips to other cities to shop at fabric stores. Hamilton, ONT is supposed to have some great sewing stores.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 28, 2004 at 4:06 PM

    I had the pleasure of meeting Amy a couple weeks ago when she visited Boston on her book tour. She cracked me up!

    ~rebecca
    http://prwdot.org

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