Check out these peepers...
I'll keep you in suspense about them for just a minute.
I've been a really good girl lately and have basically stopped buying sock yarn. The only one I have purchased, besides the club yarn, is this...
How pretty is that?! When I saw it on The Loopy Ewe it screamed at me to buy it. It's from The Great Adirondack Yarn Company, Inc. The Colorway is called Tropicana and the yarn is 70% merino / 20% silk / 10% nylon. It is so soft and fabulous. I can't wait to knit it up. I say that with every yarn and then end up just enjoy looking at them for months. But really.. great yarn.
The next one that showed up was another winner from the Tempted sock club that Loops runs. Stacy just started dyeing yarn with silver in it and she was sweet enough to let the clubbers get their hands on it. The colorway is great with it and is a fun and nostalgic one for me. Here's Tiffani...
It was hard for me to capture the flecks of silver in it but they are there. I'm an 80s girl at heart so I am loving the colors!
I also received a gorgeous skein from the Zen Yarn Garden Harmony Semi-Solid Sock Yarn Club. When I pick out yarns to buy I never usually buy any sort of solids so Roxanne's club is so fabulous for me. I've loved every color and always look forward to seeing what she sends next. Her latest was Aubergine...
Yarn buying has been on my mind a lot lately and I decided that it can turn into a sickness. One that I suffer from when I go on a buying bender now and then. I'm really happy about slowing down on the yarn purchases from now on. Honestly, what's the point of having a ridiculous amount of yarn? I think most people have it just to say they have it. It's an ego thing. If you have so much yarn that it will take you years to knit it all (if you don't buy any more)... there are issues there*. I admit I have a bit too much yarn due to retail therapy. Thankfully I'm now trading in the PayPal black hole for working out. No more sitting on my ass spending money online and knitting the day away. I will have a bikini body by June and a nice chunk of change in the bank. I will give myself one weekend of yarn gluttony during The Loopy Ewe Spring Fling though.. and maybe a chocolate chip cookie now and then too. I'm a realist.
So about those peepers.. it's part of my latest sewing project. I love whimsy. I'm drawn to goofy things that make me smile. So when I wanted a fun perfect knitting bag I figured I needed to make it myself. Percy really makes my day...
I lined him in a fabulous lime green and used grommets instead of threading the cord in a casing to make him more durable since he holds a lot of stuff...
Every day is a little bit better when it involves my Percy penguin knitting bag.
I'm planning another bag. What animal will it be...
*I don't want emails or comments about how you don't have issues and that your massive amounts of yarn are totally normal. It's just my opinion! So if you were offended we can agree to disagree on yarn hoarding.
Update 2/28: Who am I kidding? People who hoard yarn don't have issues. They are happy. I'm a happy yarn hoarder.. and it's ok! The shopping is back on.
Oh.My.God.
That is the cutest freakin thing I have ever seen!
Posted by: flutter | February 22, 2008 at 12:32 PM
I love the bag! It turned out super cute. The yarn is great too especially the Zen.
Bikini body by June...I am totally up for that challenge!
Posted by: Cayli | February 22, 2008 at 04:03 PM
Oh my gosh thats the cutest bag evah! I sooooo love penguins! You could make a fortune making those...hey it could help buy more yarn!:) I would soooo buy one from ya! Awesome...another name could be Chilly Willy!
Posted by: Dawn | February 22, 2008 at 06:43 PM
I thought those were some new kind of pastie at first.
What are you trying to do, make me look bad? Yarn hoarding? Yes, I hoard yarn. Yes, I have issues. I'm a compulsive shopper and have been doing this for longer than a lot of people have been alive. It's called depression. Better yarn than another Corvette or diamond ring.
Exercising? Oh lord. And here I open a new yarn shop and you go on this kick of exercising and not buying yarn. If I still had a big pool which actually got warm, I'd still swim five miles a day. But I don't, and my body is slowly giving out, so exercise is out of the question. I exercise by picking up a cigarette (doctor-approved, I'm pleased to say), or picking up the remote control. What the hell do you need to exercise for? You're thin as a stick, woman!
You wanna make those bags and sell them through the shop?
Posted by: Pam | February 22, 2008 at 08:55 PM
Percy is Too Cool! He reminds me of the toys found in the Better Homes & Gardens and McCall's craft books from the late 60's and 70's.
Posted by: Jill | February 24, 2008 at 03:24 PM
Welcome to the land of stash knitting. We stopped buying for the sake of just wanting to have last Thanksgiving weekend. We all know that once in a great while you will buy a skein or two but it must talk to you or be so special you cant pass it up. Everyone does what they must but we are sitting on enough stash to keep us in projects for a few years. He/She who dies with the most yarn has happy knitter friends left behind.
Posted by: Twisted Knitster | February 24, 2008 at 04:41 PM
LOVE that bag... oh, I want one!! So jealous. Plus, my kiddos are so into Happy Feet it's not even funny. Great job. What an amazing idea--love the creativity.
And good for you with the yarn. I think it's one of those things that we all sort of go back and forth on, to some degree or another. :)
Posted by: Jill | February 24, 2008 at 05:03 PM
I love the bag! And the yarn from The Loopy Ewe? Awesome! I might need some.
Posted by: Jen | February 26, 2008 at 07:17 PM
That bag is all kinds of awesome!
I'm with you on the issue of yarn shopping. Sock yarn and Malabrigo are like crack for me and I have to make an effort to show restraint. Best of luck to you on your workouts.
Posted by: Michelle | March 10, 2008 at 07:49 AM