Stash Enhancement: Erin Lane Bags Indie Yarn Carnival Club

Happy Saturday :)

In the spirit of keeping it real (or transparency, if you want corporate speak), I bring to you today's edition of Stash Enhancement Saturday (Stash Acquisition Saturday is also appropriate).

Last weekend, I discovered a box outside my door containing my last (sob) Indie Yarn Carnival club shipment for 2016. It was the October shipment and it was lovely. The yarn came from Mrs. Crosby in the Train Case base and the colorway is called "Carnival After Dark."

In addition to the lovely skein of yarn, we also got two bags, one of the large project bags and then a little DPN project keeper type of bag (I think - it's got buttons so putting notions in there would be silly as stitch markers would fall out). You can see the keeper bag under the skein in the photo above.

That's the big bag. We also got a pattern (socks) to go with the yarn. I've not decided if I'll knit them yet or not...maybe someday. I mean, I have the pattern and all :)

So, that happened.

And that's it, I swear!


I hope you're having a lovely Saturday. I'll be back tomorrow with my Year of Projects update. Also, take some time out of your day to celebrate Guy Fawkes and watch V for Vendetta. It is, after all, Guy Fawkes Day or Bonfire Night.

Stash Enhancement: Indie Yarn Carnival and a few other things...

Happy Saturday :)

I've acquired some yarn recently, some of it by my own volition....okay, all of it is by my own volition but one was a club shipment and the rest were because I'm having a thing in my head about sock cuffs and heels and toes right now.

Anyway, let's see it already!

This is a skein of Miss Babs Yowza in the appropriate name "Top of the Ferris Wheel" because it's from my most recent shipment from ErinLane Bags Indie Yarn Carnival (seriously, it came a couple days ago).

And the bag that came along, of course. I'm not positive but I think this is what Lindsey deems the "Small Project Bag" on the website.

A pattern also came along for the ride so here's a shot of all three:

The pattern is the Brave Shawl, which is not in the Ravelry database (yet).


I also went to Michael's the other day with a bug in my pants for some plain white or grey or something not black yarn for sock cuffs, heels, and toes. Don't ask me what I was thinking because I think I was pondering #operationsockdrawer (which you can find out more about if you listen to the Knitmore Girls podcast) and Susan B. Anderson's #soskal (which is for her Smooth Operator Socks KAL). Anyway, these came home......

Patons Kroy, which is a workhorse sock yarn that I've used before (my Vanilla Latte socks).

And two separate skeins of Loops & Threads Woolike. The top is more of a white/undyed and the bottom is slightly on the grey side. The only thing I'm worried about with these two is actual yarn weight. It's classified as a light fingering weight, which is fine for socks....but most of my socks are just a normal fingering weight so I'm a little worried that it'll be too thin for what I'm planning to use it for but we'll see how it goes.




I hope you've enjoyed this little quickie stash update :) I will, hopefully, be linking up with Tammy soon enough. I'll be back tomorrow with my Year of Projects update :)

Stash Enhancement on a Saturday: I fell off the wagon....

Happy Saturday :)

Apparently I'm feeling rather chatty. A post yesterday, one today, another tomorrow, and probably another on Monday.........

As it says above, I fell off the wagon and stash acquisitions happened. To be fair, two of these entries are clubs but the other two are not...

First up....

I believe this is my June shipment for Erin Lane Bags Indie Carnival club. It has a project bag, of course, and a lovely skein from Must Stash, which I hadn't heard of until it appeared in my mailbox. The colorway is called Bahama Breeze. We also got a pattern to go with it and I might even make it...I haven't decided yet.

Next.....

This is my last shipment from KnitCircus for their Gradient Club. It's on their new base, called Trampoline, which has 440 yds. The colorway is called the Whole Enchilada. We also got a 4-pk of washable bamboo buttons from Katrinkles.

And then, these happened.....

The top is four skeins of madelinetosh Tosh Chunky and the bottom is a skein of madelinetosh 80/10/10 MCN Worsted, all of them in the Molly Ringwald colorway. Apparently it's Pretty in Pink Molly Ringwald, not Sixteen Candles Molly Ringwald.....except that it matches the dress from Sixteen Candles. Whatever. I had occasionally looked for this colorway, never really found it, and then I got a bug in my pants last month and I found a few in destashes...which came home with me :)


I fell off the wagon. Oops.

Stash Enhancement: CLUBS!

Happy Friday!

No, I'm not showing off an FO today, even though I do, technically, have one....but the ends still need to be woven in and I need to wash/block it and I need to find buttons. So, no Gex (yet) but, I do have some stash acquisitions to show you (finally!).

Since my LYS closed in March, I've not really purchased much. I think I've picked up a couple skeins in destashes/shop updates and my club yarns and maybe one purchase of Kroy sock yarn. So, they've been few and far between. And I've been lazy.

So, today, I have club shipments!

Firstly, we have my club shipment for Erin Lane Bags' Indie Yarn Carnival. I think this was the May shipment...or maybe it was the late April one or something. Anyway, it's my most recent one.

The bag is her basic sock project bag (the bottom photo shows it better) and the yarn came from KnitCircus. I love KnitCircus and I'm sad that I no longer live nearby. Many moons ago, when I first started knitting (okay, it was probably 2008), I joined the Madison Knitters' Guild. MKG is the biggest knitters guild in the country. Both Jaala Spiro & Amy Detjen, the purveyors of KnitCircus, are members. Back when Jaala was still doing the KnitCircus Magazine, she put out a call for some models for some of the projects. I was newly pregnant with Little Man, so this was probably the spring of 2010. Anyway, I ended up modeling the Tachimawari Socks (yes, the top and bottom photos are of me) and she was quite lovely to work with. We're acquaintances more than anything but she's still fabulous. When she quit the magazine and started dyeing yarn in her basement, I was intrigued but I had so much yarn and we were moving and blah blah blah...so, I never got in on it. And then, last year, they had a Kickstarter to get out of the basement and into a proper shop where they could dye yarn, sell yarn, have classes, and you know, be a shop. I funded said Kickstarter and my swag was a spot in the Gradient Yarn Club (which you will see in a moment).

So, that's my story about KnitCircus.

Anyway, the yarn that came with my Erin Lane Bag shipment was the Greatest of Ease base (80/20 Merino/Nylon) in Meet Me At The Fair. I keep thinking a shawl of some sort for all these gradients because I don't know that socks would work well...maybe if they were the matched gradient sock (you get two mini-skeins that match) but they're just the regular gradients. So, there's that.



My other shipment was, of course, my KnitCircus Gradient Club shipment. So I got two skeins of KnitCircus gradients in a row :)

This is the Triumphant base (100% merino) in The Knit Sky. Obviously it's made to look like the night sky. Again, a shawl of some sort. I keep thinking of a crescent shawl of some sort. I might have to go off designing something...maybe not.

But, we got a bonus bag (and button, which you cannot see very well on the bag)! The bags were made by Andi Smith, who I know better as the writer of Big Foot Knits. She is also quite lovely. I met her a couple years ago at Stitches West in the Cooperative Press booth (probably 2014).




So, stash enhancement acquisitions and such :) Exciting times.

I'll be back on Sunday for my Year of Projects update and that's wonderful :)

Stash Enhancement: Indie Yarn Carnival

Happy Wednesday! Today, I have a Stash Enhancement post.

The bag is, of course, from Erin Lane Bags. This is my February shipment for the Indie Yarn Carnival. There's a pattern, as well. The yarn is one I've not heard of. So, here are the details :)

Yarn: Squishy DK from LYDIA Yarn

Yardage/Weight: 230 yds/DK weight

Colorway: Indie Yarn Carnival Feb 2016


I also collected all my stitch markers from the Stitch Marker Swap that happened at Stitches West. Admittedly, I did not participate as well as I could have due to small children and having to leave before I was ready. But, I did catch a few :)

Not too many but they're all lovely and they're all mine :)


And, lastly, this has nothing to do with yarn but it's funny and it's MINE :)

It's a martini shaker that turns into a drinking glass, meaning that you can shake it up, take the cover part off, and you have your drink in a glass, ready to go :) If you're interested, I found it at Michael's Craft Store on Monday morning.


I hope you're all having a lovely day :)