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december 11, 2006
just a purl girl NYC was great! I got all my Christmas shopping done (and boy are my arms tired!). And I even squeezed in a few minutes of shopping for myself at Purl.
There's some Mission Falls cotton for one of those LMKG children's cotton hats (I never actually made one of them with cotton!) and some pretty pink yarn I've never heard of before (Pear Tree Merino) for another sweet baby hat for wee one (check out the super cute Tante Sophie patterns! I got the last one shown on that page. How can you resist that baby face?). I even picked up a few fat quarters of fun, girly fabric from the the new Purl Patchwork store.
That place was so nice, I momentarily started dreaming of taking up quilting (but of course, I don't have the room or the patience for quilting so that will remain a dream). I visited my mom while I was in the city and look, she wore her native sweater!
We had yummy comfort food at Sparky's.
And then she let me raid her sock drawer for socks for the stupid sock creatures.
A red argyle sock creature for S and blue/yellow argyle creature for B - they couldn't be more perfect! posted by alison at 12:17 pm | in
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Comments
Your shopping is all done?!? I'm jealous. :) Fat quarters are incredibly addictive. I have them stacked up all over the place. Quilting is far easier than knitting, but not half as portable. There is definitely a space issue and a kid issue and a time issue to consider, which is why I hung it up once Liv was born. I'd love to sew up a baby quilt for you. Your fabrics or mine, just let me know! Posted by: Kerstin at December 11, 2006 1:07 PMWhat is an stupid sock creature? Posted by: Tracey at December 11, 2006 1:33 PMTracey, just check out the post below (here's a link if you're viewing this in some special reader or something). Posted by: alison at December 11, 2006 1:49 PMThat pink merino is just sooo yummy. Is it as soft as it looks - the color is just so perfect. That hat pattern is calling to me but I must resist. Darling granddaughter already has more hats than she can possibly wear. I know what you mean about quilting - it really is seductive. So is needlepoint for me (probably initiated by frequent visits to Ann Sather's [http://www.annsather.com/history.html], a landmark Chicago Swedish restaurant, years ago - she had the walls covered with needlepoint that had been handed down in her family - all very old since she was born in the early part of the last century. Some of them were so fine that you couldn't tell they were needlepoint not paintings until you practically had your nose touching them. I tried needlepoint & it made me crazy - totally boring to do (for me). I was very disappointed not to be able to create masterpieces like that. Posted by: Donna at December 11, 2006 2:20 PMgonna use the citrus socks for the baby? Posted by: minnie at December 11, 2006 3:21 PMThe Pear Tree is an Australian product - one that is hard to find in Australia. They apparently prefer to market overseas, not local. So be it. They also make an alpaca/merino blend. Tante Sophie hat for a baby... how funny! I don't wish you a baby with tante Sophie's temper ;-) I guess Thorbjørn Egner's children books are known in the US too, since they name patterns after the characters. Tante Sophie is from this book: My LYS just started carrying the Pear Tree yarn and I'm looking for an excuse to buy it because it feels so nice! Posted by: Cristina (CrissyPo) at December 11, 2006 8:36 PMWow, I was in NYC & Purl this weekend too! I bought the Tante Sophie Diezel Seedie Ribbie Beanie, her patterns are great :) Posted by: Linda at December 11, 2006 11:31 PMI love Purl. I get thier newsletters, yes tante Sophie has lovely patterns. I also order from them and they always send things beuatifully wrapped. if I ever get to go over seas again and to the USA i'll be sure to visit them. |
