This year, I participated in the Chicago Yarn Crawl. I visited 5 knitting stores: I'd Rather Be Knitting and Knit Happens in Buffalo Grove, Mosaic in Des Plaines, Fuzzy Wuzzy in Arlington Heights, and Three Bags Full in Northbrook. I would have stopped in at Gene Ann's Yarns in Barrington, but I did not plan that portion of my trip well enough and arrived after she had closed. It was fun to see the different types of knitted models in the different shops and to look at all of the yarn. I bought yarn for three shawls in varying weights and for two pairs of socks or more lace shawl knitting. I also bought some more small stitch markers to use on lace projects and some new cable needles to replace the ones that have disappeared. Friday, I also went to Stitches Midwest and looked around the Marketplace. I some beautiful sweater kits and lots of yarn by independent dyers. I took my Afternoon Tea Shawl to the Zen Yarn Garden booth to show off what I had made out of their yarn.
I have also been doing needlepoint and have been working on Liz Morrow's Mad Miters. I decided that I did not want to have to lay threads in this project. To select the colors, I started with a skein of Caron Collection Watercolors in Bark and selected Silk and Ivory shades that would compliment the colors in the Watercolors. The instructions recommend using a metallic accent color but I am very happy with the plum Silk and Ivory.
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