Fiber Dreams

When it’s a curve.

I don’t know at this point whether to leave the “corner” like that, or to rip it back to my lifeline and go back to the drawing board.

If the bottom “corner” is a curve, is it still a triangular shawl? Hm.

I was a very bad girl yesterday. I bought yarn. Noro sock yarn to be exact.

I made the grand mistake of going into a yarn store, Ursula’s Yarn Boutique in Santa Ana. I was on my way back from a business appointment, heading for the post office, and got, um, sidetracked. Ursula’s is a tiny store tucked into one of southern California’s millions of tiny strip malls. She has a lot of yarn crammed in there for the size of the store, and tons of samples of finished garments, showing off how the yarn and patterns she has look when knit up. She asked what I was looking for. Mainly sock yarn and lace weight yarn for shawls. (Big surprise there. Not.) She pointed me in the right direction, and I never really got out of the sock yarn area.

She has a bunch of Opal yarns in stock, Regia, a couple more of the normal big brands. And Noro Kureyon sock yarn. I’ve been wanting to try some Noro yarn for ages. Just can’t buy it on the Internet. Not that it isn’t available, but how can you choose a colorway when you can’t properly see the colors? And you haven’t seen them in real life? And have no idea how vibrant they are? Or what colors are lurking inside the skein?

The ball I got, color 164, is primarily shades of green with some browns, a little bright turquoise, and a tiny bit of orange thrown in for good effect. The yarn is on the light side of fingering weight, measuring 462 yards to the one 100 gram ball. The distributor told Ursula that if one’s feet aren’t too long, and socks are knit with no more than a five inch cuff, then you should be able to get two pairs out of the one ball. The yarn is a little rough to the touch, especially for sock yarn, but it’s supposed to soften up quite a bit when it’s washed. The yarn’s 30% nylon, so it should hold up to at least occasional trips through the machine with flying colors, I would think. I saw on Ravelry that a couple people have thrown their Noro socks in the washer and dryer, and other than getting a slight bloom from the dryer—which I usually really like—they came out great. And nice and soft. That all sounds good to me.

I want to knit a pair of entrelac socks with it. I’ve been wanting to try Eunny’s entrelac pattern from the spring 2007 Interweave Knits. I’ll be doing shorter socks, though. Haven’t worn knee socks since the early 80s, and I can’t say I’m in a hurry to get into another pair. Besides, if I can manage to get two pairs out of this one ball of yarn, that’d be totally cool. The second pair might be some Jaywalkers. We’ll have to see how it goes.

In the meantime, I’m so excited about going to TNNA with Kristie tomorrow that I’m about to come out of my skin. Not that I’ve been posting here quite every day anyway, but I definitely won’t be tomorrow. No time. Gotta get out of the house early (for me), get to Kristie’s, and get to Long Beach in time to get into the market when it opens at 10 am. Woot.

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