It occurred to me last night that if my sister (Dori) and I (being Karen) are going to maintain a blog, that we should be truly honest right up front. I speak for both of us by saying that we are true fiber addicts. Like, we should go to a hardcore rehab facility. I find myself, and I know my sister does too, checking what coupons are being featured at Michaels, JoAnn Fabrics, Hobby Lobby, & AC Moore every week. Not to mention what online coupon codes for knitpicks.com, yarn.com, lionbrand.com and any other fiber pusher we can find. This does not include our own LYS ('local yarn shop' in fiber slang). Constant visits to the LYS are extremely dangerous as there are fellow hardcore addicts that not only appreciate and understand your addiction but encourage and facilitate it to whole new unhealthy levels. I said two months ago that I would not spend anymore money on yarn for the remainder of the year. That would be like telling a shark to stop swimming and eating...I was just setting myself up for extreme failure. Within a week, I had purchased just under $100 of yarn from WEBS (yarn.com), and I mean just under, by seven pennies, but that still means it wasn't $100! I then turn into a criminal stalker. Once that tracking number notification is sent, I am checking it countless times every day to make sure it is coming and get more impatient with every passing moment as to why my yarn has not yet arrived. Don't they know I am withering away and dying slowly inside without my yarn? I mean the 300 pounds or so laying around me (without exaggeration, I have taken three rooms in my house) bring me absolutely no solace. Oh the inhumanity! And then when the package does arrive, I get all giddy and tingly like a lil kid Christmas morning. Tah-dah! Yarn! Ooo...the sweet caress of yarn! Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! Oh the thrilling high of fiber rolling through the fingers! I then text pictures of what I bought to my sister. We discuss potential projects that these balls of string with a pair of sticks or a hook could create. Then it occurs to me that there was a skein of yarn I had hemmed and hawed on last week so maybe I should look at it again because although the projects we looked through won't work for what I just bought, it will for that skein that is now whispering in my ear "Buy me too!". And the cycle begins again.
You know, it just dawned on me that I have not bought any yarn for almost two weeks...maybe that's why I have been shaking. And my stomach hurts. And migraines. And irritability. And coughing. And numbness in my hands and feet. And trouble swallowing. And lack of appetite. I must go now. I need a major fix.
Okay....putting on my shoes and coat because I have got to go fiber frolicking so here is my choice item today from the shoppe. Blue is my absolute favorite color and this ladder yarn is so vibrant!
Love it!
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