Yarn love.

I always stop and check the mailbox at the end of the driveway when I come home from my Friday Domestic Goddess duties. Usually, it's junk mail and/or bills. Today was an exception to that mailbox junk.

I got yarn.

Oooooh yeah! Ummm hmmm! This girl's got her happy dancin' shoes on. Couldn't stand waiting until I got 280 feet to the house to open the package. No siree. I ripped that bad boy open right there on the spot. Six lovely skeins of Prism BonBon ribbon yarn in Tumbleweed. This stuff is yummy, so soft and silky it's almost indecent. And yes, standing there at the mailbox I gathered all six skeins into my hands and stuck my face in them. Bliss, I tell ya'. Pure, unadulterated yarn bliss. You can't do that kind of thing in the store or the clerks get nervous.

I ordered this yarn from Yarn Paradise, plus eleven skeins of Prism Indulgence in Fog for my dream sweater!, back in September to satisfy my crankiness when the husband got his new car. I was against buying the car. Both yarns had to be special ordered and I've been patiently waiting for it to arrive. Sadly, I'm still waiting on the Indulgence.

Now, I'll confess I'm still not sure just what the heck I'm going to make with the BonBon. I'm thinking it might be something like this lovely ribbon tank top or this pattern for summer. Or at least something similar. I'm still very much a beginner when it comes to knitting. Whatever pattern I decide on will have to say Beginner Level somewhere on it or it will probably be more than I can handle. I want to enjoy knitting the yarn, not sitting in the corner banging my head against the wall in misery 'cause this yarn was, well, expensive and I'm not wanting to muck it up.

And now that it's finally here I'm definitely anxious to start knitting with it. Alas, I'm going to restrain myself until I finish the scarf & hat combo I've already started. Okay, I've started the scarf part. Correction, I've started it again for the eleventh time. It took me weeks to decide on the right stitch pattern for the yarn I'm using - Bernat Bamboo Chunky Yarn in Water. Amazingly soft yarn. Snuggle kind of yarn. Roll around in it naked kind of yarn. *sigh* But anyway, I finally decided on a knit 7 - purl 7 stitch for 14 rows, then purl 7 - knit 7 for 14 rows, repeat. It creates a sort of checkerboard pattern that I think is really nice, even with this chunky yarn.

For now, it's time to go do some Domestic Goddess housework duties, IE: vacuum, laundry, etc. Then I get to work in the studio until the husband gets home for the weekend.

On second thought, I might just have to go fondle my new yarn again before I do anything else .......

Namaste y'all ...