I promised you a story of my knitting adventure. Well, I'm not that adventurous, so I hope you weren't expecting too much! Our Knitsmiths founder, Dava, has organized field trips for us to go to some of the not so local yarn stores in the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island area and this weekend we went to Webs ("America's yarn store!"). Now I know why so many people in this area make a pilgrimage to Webs once a year. What a great shop! I loved browsing through their books and patterns, including older issues of Vogue Knitting and Interweave Knits (had to pick me up one of these) and some older hard to find patterns, like this one, which I've wanted to get for a long time. The great thing about Webs is the yarn selection (oh, and the discounts!). I missed my Rowan yarns, but they have so many other wonderful yarns on display in the store and a whole open warehouse of coned yarn. I'm a little intimidated by coned yarn, having never worked with it, but I decided to give some fine gauge shetland a try for a Norwegian fair-isle sweater I've been longing to make.

I'm looking forward to swatching it to see how it knits up! Another Knitsmith, Johanna, is just starting her first fair-isle (progress pics to come!) and has reminded me how much I enjoyed knitting the Dale bug sweater. This means I'll probably be picking up the ladybug sweater soon to finish it and get myself psyched up to make this sweater for myself.

Speaking of the Knitsmiths, we had a great group yesterday, with two Smooches (Gina and Kerstin) and yet another area knitblogger, Claudia, who was knitting a tank in the most wonderful ribbon yarn (check it out on her blog!). Ribbon yarn was certainly the theme of the day, with no less than six knitters working with ribbon.

I was, of course, working on my white smooch tee. Not very adventurous, see!