What a GREAT way to start the day (oh the temptations)! The store looks so hugh you lucky duck. I like just outside of Chgo and our LYSs do not have sales like this.

OMG! Sale goodness...

I wish I would have gotten in to knitting while we still lived in Connecticut (or earlier, in Chicopee). There seems to be so much yarny goodness in that region. Ahhh well, oh well, no regrets, all hail the internet!

I saw you there! I bought the lovely orange wool and the purple! :) FYI: if I look 1/2 as good when I'm a mom,with twins, at 7am...well, i'll count myself lucky. :) Thanks for being gracious about everyone recognizing you! I was very much star-struck! read my blog and you will see how star struck! the 'boy' was updated about 30 seconds after i left WW. Even he knows who you are! great meeting you and I am impressed with your resistance to stash enhancement. I have to throw out shoes and other stuff to make room before our move... he put a "tonage limit" on my stuff to pack (he is lenient on yarn).
-Kate

Gosh, I hope it wasn't sockapal-2-za that made your hard drive high tail it outta there! Yikes.

Wow, that's a lot of sale yarn. [end understatement of the year.] I'm not-so-secretly relieved I don't have to rush over there right now since I am sporting morning hair myself.

Anyway, just wanted to tell you I finally have a shot of me modeling Cyd up over on LJ.

Okay now to actually start the "working" I'm doing from home today!

Lucky you!

AAAAACK! I'm jealous!

Seriously, you must have the willpower of steel to turn down Optimum at least twice.

Ohhhhh AHHHHH.

Nothing like a good haul of yarn to help out the pain of a dead hard drive. Which reminds me. I need to go back up my system...

Sorry your hard drive died. My friend's laptop fan went wonky and now I relate it to an etch a sketch, where she has to shake it or turn it in odd directions to get it to turn on.

How on sale are we talking? I can't believe you passed over the Plymouth Alpaca!!

busy bee!

Well great now I have to buy a new keyboard because I do believe I ruined it with all the drool. I'm so stinking jealous! We don't have anything like that here in the good old midwest. Ah well all my money will be spent on a new keyboard anyway.

I am SO envious of where you live! If our store had a yarn sale that looked like that I would have to just hand over my paycheck for the month...you wouldn't be able to stop me from buying everything in site! Such willpower you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How lucky you are to have a great yarn sale. I didn't knit for 8 years. (I know, who would ever stop doing such a wonderful thing? My life was nuts for a few years) Anyhow, when I started back the crazy price of yarn shocked me.
I too, am SO envious of where you live. So many great stores. So many great knitters!!

I hope its not saockapalooza 2 thats closed I keeped trying to double click on your page to sign up an I couldn't get to the next page. I could have sworn last night and the night before I checked you were not ready yet. How could it happen so quickly! I am bummed I missed the boat I have been waiting for a month.

Alison,

please consider extending the numbers of the sockapalooza 2, at least to the ones who have left comments on your blog. I will help you to arrange matches and statistics so perhaps there can be three groupings: beginners, experienced and latecommers. What do you think?

I have been stocking up on sock yarn just for this event ...

There's a bit of nostalgia, seeing the yarn store in Lexington. My cousins grew up just down the street from the green. I have fond memories of watching the Minute Men reenactments on the green nearby in the summers when we visited. Now, of course, whenever we visit the area, I drag whichever cousin I can along to that same yarn store. Thanks for a bit of memories.

Where was everyone? Ahh, a yarn sale :)

How do I find out about this sale???? I'm not far at all grew up the next town over!
Ekkks!!
I'm sooo bummed that I missed this!!! Please email me the info

How do I find out about this sale???? I'm not far at all grew up the next town over!
Ekkks!!
I'm sooo bummed that I missed this!!! Please email me the info

I feel your pain, Alison! The hard drive in one of our machines just died last weekend. I am thankful that my husband has insisted on building acube farm in our house, or else I would not have had a backup computer to use. To think, I'm the so-called computer geek but he's the one who keeps insisting that we buy more computers!