We had a great yarn swap this afternoon at our knitting group, the Knitsmiths! There were lots of single skeins and odds & ends of all kinds of wonderful yarns -- enough for a scarf or edging or contrast color on another garment. And there were several abandoned projects (also made with amazing yarns) that people just couldn't get to work for them and were passing on. Some of them were so close to being finished it's sad to think that the new owners will rip everything out and start again. Dava brought a purple sweater that was completed except for the sleeve seams. The problem: gauge issues, too small. But tiny little Claire slipped it right on and it looked super!

I brought several skeins of sock yarn that I decided I probably wouldn't use and picked up over six skeins of some tweedy Tahki yarn in a lovely green. I'm hoping the color will look good on me since I have green eyes. The yardage wasn't listed on the skeins (anyone know what the yardage is for 100g Tahki Windsor Tweeds?), but I'm hoping I'll have enough for at least a cropped sweater. I also picked up a couple of loose skeins of Lopi for some charity knitting. After so many beautiful and luxurious projects for me and mine, I think it's time I knitted something for someone else entirely. I'm hoping that the whole knitting group can put together a batch of hats and mittens and bring them over to a local charity group for the holidays.

Best of all at the swap were Julia's old patterns and yarns from the 80's. Can you believe we dressed like that?! Some of the bobble-y, ribbon-y, 1981 Madonna-y stuff was picked up to be used as edging or to double strand with other yarns, but I fear the patterns were less fortunate. No way to update some of those things. Nope, not yet vintage, still ugly. But hilarious!