Miss Jessica was graduating from college last weekend, so the hub and I went down to Del Mar for the ceremony, which took place at the racetrack, which I guess was because the school doens’t have that much room.
On the way down, we stopped in at Common Threads, which is a shop I really like to visit when down San Diego way, because they organize the yarn by color rather than by vendor. I can get close to the vision when things are arranged this way. And the shop-folk are really nice and helpful. Then it turns out they are related by marraige or something to another shop that I really like, Alamitos Bay Yarn Company, here in Long Beach.
Anyway, I left the shop with $100 worth of fuzzy, slubby, bumpy, shaggy, tweedy and otherwise fru-fru that I would never normally buy, but I was caught up by the poncho bug that’s been going around. Plenty of knit-bloggers are making them. Some of my local Stitch and Bitchers are making them too. So I swatched, and I grumbled and started and frogged and started again and frogged again and I am not going to make a damn poncho with this stuff. It’s the vision thing, again. I picked out these yarns, but when I put them together, they look more like vomit. So, maybe I will mix them up with something more plain, like some navy blue, or blue heather or something. They just don’t work together, and why didn’t the vision stop me from spending $100 on fru-fru that doesn’t go together???