Ouch! Falling off the yarn wagon (or Damn! That hurt!)

Well, I'm certainly glad that I didn't give up buying yarn for Lent, because I would have failed MISERABLY!!! I really was trying to be good, as I have enough yarn in my stash to open my own yarn store--really. I have most assuredly achieved SABLE (stable aquistion beyond life expectancy) as the Yarn Harlot put it. However, none of the recently acquired yarns (beyond my yarn clubs; and we all know SOCK YARN DOESN'T COUNT!) were sock yarns. Oh, don't get me wrong, I looked, ususally quite lovingly, at the newest yarns on my favorite websites; occasionally even going so far as to put a skein or two (or five) into my shopping cart, but then I would exercise my willpower and close the window without completing the purchase. But the other day, I snapped. WEBS had some close-out Araucania Nature wool in a lovely teal; and I'll be darned if a sweater's worth didn't just jump into my cart! Along with some soysilk/merino roving! And my fingers just entered my credit card number of their own accord (yep, there is definately something to that muscle memory thing--my fingers remember that better than they remember how to play the flute (which I have done for far more years than I care to think about.)


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Araucania Nature Wool

Then, a day or so later, I was looking at the Little Knits website and MORE yarn hopped into the cart (of course, all of this yarn did have my favorite four letter word attached to it--SALE!) At Little Knits, even more yarn jumped into my cart. This time it was Atacama Alpaca in the red/pink/fuschia colorway--and it was 2 bags of it (keep in mind--still on sale, BIG TIME). And that wasn't all, some Fleece Artist Kid Aran hopped in with it! And the same thing happened again; my fingers just entered the credit card number without me making them do it. (I'm really not sure that I could actually tell someone the number without a keypad for my fingers to type it on--it's the same with my debit card PIN number.)

The following day I just happened to look on DiscountYarnSale.com (someone had mentioned the Hill Country Yarn sock of the month club and I hadn't looked there lately--you would think that I would learn...) Now, I'm not sure that many people have checked out this website but most of their yarns are sold by the bag. Not so great if you are making a small item, but pretty good if you are making a sweater with long sleeves and a longer overall length. Well, I hadn't checked it out lately, as I was saying, and I discovered that they carried Malabrigo--all of the Malabrigo line, in all of the colors. I believe that they probably have to order them from the company, as they say that there is a 3-4 week ship date, but not too bad. So there some Malabrigo worsted AND laceweight jumped in the cart. (Laceweight is sold 5 to a bag; worsted is 10 per bag) I have come to the conclusion that I am just a junkie at heart, only not about drugs--I'm a pure-T fiber addict. Shall we start a 12 step program for it? Of course, I really don't mind the high that I get when I plunge my fingers into some lovely merino or bamboo or silk or... you get the picture. Oh, and the colors!!! You can keep your drab, dull browns and beiges--give me eye popping colors any day.

Along that time also my last Woolgirl sock club shipment came in. Now, this doesn't really count because it wasn't something that I ordered recently--and it is SOCK yarn! (and sock yarn doesn't count, remember?) It is beautiful and perfect for Valentine's Day.

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Oh well, so much for yarn diets (or, as Garfield the Cat would say, "Diet is Die with a T".) I'll try to do better. Now, if I could just figure out how to knit all of the time, I would be happy!