day 5: new yarn place

I think I have a new favorite LYS. Too bad it's not at all "L".

For Christmas, my dad got me a certificate to his local yarn shop. (No, he doesn't knit.) I really liked the place. It's called Wooly Monmouth because it's in Monmouth County, NJ & the store logo features a really cute mammoth knitting with its huge tusks. It's owned by another Dori (but she's "Dori" and I'm "Dorie"), which is actually a real somewhat exciting thing when hardly anyone has your name. You know how when you walk into a small needle shop you can tell pretty quickly if these are your people? It had a good vibe there. They were out of Last Minute Knitted Gifts in the shop, but I couldn't remember what the gauge was for the hourglass sweater, so she called a friend and asked her to look it up for me. Nice people!

So, I got to go on a bit of a spree! I bought the blue yarn to make the hourglass sweater, and I bought some koigu because I'm always looking at its pretty colors. I'm going to use it to make the chevron scarf, which reminds me of a patchwork quilt--you have many colors and you're not sure where one will meet another, but they all come together and look beautiful.