I went to the closet yesterday during naptime and pulled out the blue varigated. I started a shawl from Debbie Macomber's Friendship Shawls book. (Mental note - try using patterns from the umpteen other knitting books you have!!) I just wasn't "feelin' it", as the kids say.
I liked the yarn and I even liked the pattern. Although, maybe I won't end up using them together. Have you ever looked at something and said "I like that [insert gift here], but it just isn't her"? That's how I felt once I got about 3 inches done. It just wasn't Peggy. The pattern looked like Peggy in the picture, but with that yarn... it just didn't make the grade for me.
So... Gabriel was still asleep and Jerry was asleep on the couch. Good time to ask if I can go buy more yarn, right? Yep! Jerry half acknowledged that I was leaving, but probably didn't understand what I was doing... and off I went!
I spent almost 2 hours in Michaels! A. This hasn't happened since about my 8th month of pregnancy when I stopped being able to stand for long periods of time and now the Boy pulls things off the shelves/fusses/otherwise disrupts the process. B. Technically, I said I wasn't buying more yarn until all of the extra yarn is gone.
Special people get special yarn purchases. Peggy is a special person. And I want her to have a shawl that she will LOVE, not just love because I made it for her. You know how Moms, big Sisters and other people do that. They love it because you made it and not because they actually like it? Ya... I don't want that for Peggy. I want her to love the shawl. So Peggy gets new yarn. I bought inexpensive acrylic yarn for 2 reasons...
1. I am broke?
2. Peggy has always yelled at me when I spend money on their family and I therefore need to be able to justify the gift. Yes, I have to be able to prove to my beloved sister-in-law that I can afford to give her, Jeff or the kids a gift. She is always concerned for me. Another reason she deserves special treatment. :)
I picked a new pattern before I left that I thought looked like Peggy again. It required bulky weight yarn. They only had an olive-ish looking darker green in the bulky weight and it was $6.50 a skein? Ummm... no.
I have to say here how much I miss living in a large city with mutiple yarn buying opportunities. It takes over an hour to drive to a good yarn store from this base and Michaels' selection just doesn't cut the mustard with me. I think there might be a good yarn store in Kingston, but I don't have a border pass yet, so no trips to Canada for me! :(
Anywho... luckily Michaels carries the Debbie Macomber book I am working from, so I grabbed it and picked ANOTHER NEW PATTERN. I found that I could buy the yarn for said pattern for under $25 and it would include at least 1 of Peggy's favorite colors.
Oh ya... I had to text Peggy at some point from the store and ask what her 2nd favorite color is. Burgundy. Very pretty. I could have used both colors in this shawl, but I was afraid that it would look to dark. So I grabbed the Hunter green and a light tan. The shawl looked to me like the main color (hunter green) needed to be contrasted with a lighter color. I was afraid that the burgundy... while beautiful... would just make it look.... off. Know what I mean?
I came home and Jerry said "I thought you weren't buying more yarn until all of this was gone?" I said "This is for Peggy." He said "O.k." and hugged me. I love my husband. He always understands when something is important enough to me not to argue about it. ;)
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