Oh what a weekend! First on Friday I discovered that the new Fall Knitty is up. Yay!! I really like this issue, there are lots of cardigan patterns! I’ve been looking for a good pattern to knit my first adult cardigan, so this is great!! I also love bubby, I’m definitely going to give that a go.
Then I discovered the YARN magazine, a new Australian knitting/crochet magazine! They have their first issue up on their website, with all the articles and patterns available in PDF. The articles and columns look pretty interesting. It really is great to see another Australian mag about knitting, and it would certainly be nice to see more of the knitting scene in Australia.
Saturday I went to the city to visit Lincraft and the Tapestry Craft. You can be sure there were some stash acquisitions! 🙂 First, there’s this Lang Moana yarn, which I’m thinking of making a lace scarf, perhaps Branching Out from Knitty.
It has quite an interesting texture — a ribbony mesh-like yarn, light and airy. Looks like it would drape well. I hope so.
Then, I got this Filatura Di Crosa Zara merino yarn, which is destined to be a cardigan for Annette. It’s so soft!
And then, I went past Dymocks and saw this in the Crafts section!!
Woohoo!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it! At Knit’s End by the Yarn Harlot!! In a bookshop, in Sydney!! When the book first came out, I looked for it in various bookstores, to no avail. I resigned myself to the fact that knitting is just not that big a thing in Australia, and that for me good knitting books can only be acquired through Amazon. But now, here it is, in my very own living room! Yay!! Been reading it bit by bit since I got it, and I just love it! (See I live among people who still think that knitting is only for grandmas, so reading this book makes me feel like, there are people out there who understand how I feel!)
The other thing that I was looking for in my trip to the city was a longer circular needle for my Kiri shawl, but alas, none of the craft shops have it on stock. Oh well… maybe I’ll just have to order online, or just see how far I can go on the shawl with just a 60cm circs? We’ll see.
This weekend was also the first time I’m selling yarns through eBay. 🙂 Managed to sell all of the five items that I put up for auction, and I’m quite happy with the results. Thank you to all who participated in the auction! Selling for the first time, I must say that it can be quite an obsession 🙂 As the ending time neared, I would be checking my items list to see how many bids they’ve got, every a few minutes! I would ask the husband to check as well, when he’s on the computer. And he would say, “No, no changes in the last 2 seconds.” 😀
Overall, great weekend I’d say. 🙂