Shh, don't tell mom

I'm not a shopping sort of girl. I don't go gaga over shoe sales, or new cloths. In fact I hate to shop for those sort of things, I have shirts from 6th grade and basically my shoes are worn until they are falling off. Though I love electronics the expensive nature of them prevents me from pulling the trigger. I looked at my awesome camera for almost a year before I dared to purchase it. But when it comes to yarn...I can't resist. The softness, the colors...the ideas and projects going through my head... I am helpless to fight it. Well today was especailly bad. A local store is closing down, and therefore selling things at 44% off. I went down there and saw that it's a really great store. Some of the yarn I could resist, but clearly there was lots that I couldn't. Most are the higher end that I normally don't buy because of the expense. But I managed to buy 35 skiens of yarn. Now some of it was bought with the intention to dye is this Easter (most of the whites) and some are for other projects and some will be decided later. My stash is getting big...really big... gotta knit faster!

Olympic Goodness

One of the many things that's great about the olympics is lots of sports to entertain me as I knit away. Sleeve 1 is complete, finished it this afternoon. Removed the crochet cast on and have started the second sleeve. What I find hard or at least time consuming about the first sleeve is the constant measuring (or in my case trying on). Every hour or so I need to get into a tank top and try on the sleeve. Today it got to a point where the length seemed questionable. Sometimes it seemed too big, others it seemed too small. So I pinned the other side and put both arms through, and determined that the length was well done. Binded off and moving on.

In other related news....I'm a yarn-a-holic. I saw a pattern today, couldn't resist. (I was doing so well too, knitting down the stash, not buying any more yarn) but this pattern caught my eye... I'm gonna make some blue bears. And there's nothing you can do to stop me!