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		<title>Off the yarn wagon&#8230;.again</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last week, as I had mentioned, I went yarn shopping at Stitches from the Heart, and as we all knew would happen, I bought more than I&#8217;d planned. That&#8217;ll teach me to carry my vacation credit card with me when I&#8217;m no longer on vacation! First it took me forever to decide on a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So last week, as I had mentioned, I went yarn shopping at <a title="Stitches from the Heart" href="http://www.stitchesfromtheheart.org/store.htm" target="_blank">Stitches from the Heart</a>, and as we all knew would happen, I bought more than I&#8217;d planned. That&#8217;ll teach me to carry my vacation credit card with me when I&#8217;m no longer on vacation! First it took me forever to decide on a yarn for Haley&#8217;s blanket&#8211;cool colors, soft texture and machine washable is a tough combination to find!&#8211;but I finally chose <a title="Universal Yarn Worsted LP" href="http://www.universalyarn.com/yarn.php?id=39" target="_blank">Universal Yarn&#8217;s Classic Worsted LP</a> (20% wool/80 acrylic) in the variegated &#8221;purple allure&#8221; (aka 11418) pallette. But before I decided on that, I&#8217;d kept returning to the Bernat Satin wall o&#8217;color. So many bright and beautiful colors! I&#8217;d been wanting to do some amigurumi work, but you need a good acrylic for that, so the stitches don&#8217;t stretch and leak stuffing all over the place. In the end, I couldn&#8217;t resist all those beautiful colors, and ended up with <em>twelve</em> balls of Bernat Satin, in twelve different colors.</p>
<p>Of course, now that I have all I need for a cute amigurumi doll, I can&#8217;t decide on a pattern. Sigh.</p>
<p>But yes, I bought a ton of yarn last week, so hopefully that&#8217;ll carry me over the summer. There have been many yarn sales lately&#8211;at <a title="WEBS" href="http://www.yarn.com" target="_blank">WEBS</a> and at <a title="Unwind" href="http://www.unwindyarn.com/" target="_blank">Unwind</a> (one of my LYSs), but I haven&#8217;t even glanced at either one, so as not to tempt myself.</p>
<p>So back to Haley&#8217;s blanket&#8211;I started a crocheted log cabin, but so far I don&#8217;t love it. The yarn is great, but it&#8217;s the pattern&#8211;no matter how many of these I do, I still can&#8217;t nail the right number of stitches to add when crocheting across the side of a row, so some sides are longer than others, and there&#8217;s a folding/pinching issue where I picked up too many/didn&#8217;t pick up enough. I&#8217;m thinking of frogging it and making a <a title="Star Afghan" href="http://www.angelfire.com/va3/heartfeltangels/littlestarafghan.html" target="_blank">star afghan</a> instead. If I do that, then I think I&#8217;d switch to the Satin, &#8217;cause the pattern would benefit far more from different colored yarns than from one variegated pallette. And the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of a &#8220;Haley&#8217;s Comet&#8221; blanket. Hmm&#8230;.</p>
<p>In other yarn news, I haven&#8217;t done anything lately with the sparkly market shawl, the too-big pink slouchy hat, the pseudo fair isle tam from Knitty, the scratchy my so-called scarf, or Kristen&#8217;s hat. I really suck at finishing, yo.</p>
<p>And finally, on a completely unrelated tangent, I rejoined Weight Watchers this week, and had my first meeting yesterday. My plan is to relearn how to eat properly. Lindora did great things for me the first six months I was on it, but it just went downhil from there, and I&#8217;d like to be able to look at a potato again without freaking out or binging on them (or is it bingeing?).</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all I got for today. Have a great Memorial Day tomorrow!</p>
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