Showing posts with label South Pasadena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Pasadena. Show all posts

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Twinkle Twinkle little yarn...

You can't tell from this swatch-let, but this is the most sumptuous yarn... Yesterday, I made a yarn stop at my favorite knitting store, Abuelita's in South Pasadena and got all fevered about finding a good project for the winter. Yeah, you heard that right: next winter. It took me 3 years to finish a beanie, after all.

We have a big trip to Europe this summer and I needed a project to keep me occupied on the plane -- somehow, I tire of magazines and books and movies on long plane trips, but I love the soothing therapy of knitting.

I'm not a good knitter. I balk at big projects. But I love
Twinkle soft chunky yarn. So I find myself seeking out easy patterns that require huge needles and can be done faster than the delicate beanies of the world. I knit a kick-ass kelly green capelet a last year with Twinkle soft chunky and I am a believer.

All hail the fig-colored Twinkle and the over-long cable-knit shawl that it will create. I am half-way to my Winter 2010/11 style...