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I Can Has Knittin' Books // Lorrie's Expedition to Imagiknit
My Schoolhouse Press mail order of crazy Scandinavian knitting books arrived intact. Frabjous day!
After the random laundromat encounter last night, I had been thinking that I might go to Imagiknit round about payday.
Until I realized they were actually easy to get to from work...
So I went.
Yes, they have Sea Silk--about half a dozen skeins, one each of several colors including Midnight, Capri, Nova Scotia, and Renaissance. They have manymany things, because they wedge as much yarn as they possibly can into their Towers o' Cubbies. I am, however, Firmly Assured that they will be getting in all the colors, and in quantity, as soon as possible. This is a by-hand operation, so that will be awhile...
Elsewhere in the store:
Their needle selection was quite extensive, but was compacted in such a way as to make negotiation difficult. Their notions selection was quite good--I found the Clover yarn-cutting pendant in pewter, which means no more gnawing through yarn just because I'm on an airplane. Huzzah!
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walkyrja--I achieved one skein of Soy Silk's Pure in Vineyard Green. This is a Not-Wool that should be tolerable for Fair-Isle style stranded knitting, by which I mean, "a sweater for walkyrja". It was even on sale--but it was the last skein, and one skein is not a sweater, unless it's a verrrrry small. As a Not-Wool scale sweater is part of my Cunning Plan, I am okay with this--for the full-size test, I'll have to buy some ridiculous amount in any case. Said test will also have to wait for me to find cream of the same vintage; I'll make some calls.
Even better was their book selection.
Directly pursuant to my research project, they had Knitting into the Mystery and Mindful Knitting. Both of these approach knitting as prayerful and meditative, although from fairly disparate places: the first is written by two good Christians who are Doing Their Best to Be Broadly Ecumenical--which, unfortunately, gives a certain New Age aroma to their words that I find off-putting.
Mindful Knitting approaches this, as one might suspect if one were jargon-clued, from a Buddhist perspective, including explicit instructions on how to incorporate knitting into meditation.
This is about all the mention they'll get in OT before I charge off on a couple paragraphs of my own inspired blather on the topic, of course.
But back to the store: they had all of the Knit-Dis's books save Knitting without Tears (a title that gives me a Crowley-flavored giggle every time I see it), and many back issues of her newsletter Wool Gathering, and no small number of the "Spun Out" patterns: patterns that had been in books and were then published separately. Of these, I was heartened to find copies of the pattern for the Baby Surprise Jacket, aka "that moonbat amoeba". Now I no longer have to feel guilty about lettingfaeryl crib my notes. I will give her this and, should she lose it, it was bought so I will not feel bad about letting her copy it again.
(It it were any other designer, I would probably be a bit more lax, but with EZ it butts up against respect for revered ancestors, something which I shouldn't not do.)
All this done, needles safely bought, I then ambled back down Eighteenth Street to Church, caught a MUNI J, stopped off at Market & Church in Deepest Castro to eat dinner and watch cute gay boys under the rainbow flags--and then another J to BART and home.
-- Lorrie
After the random laundromat encounter last night, I had been thinking that I might go to Imagiknit round about payday.
Until I realized they were actually easy to get to from work...
So I went.
Yes, they have Sea Silk--about half a dozen skeins, one each of several colors including Midnight, Capri, Nova Scotia, and Renaissance. They have manymany things, because they wedge as much yarn as they possibly can into their Towers o' Cubbies. I am, however, Firmly Assured that they will be getting in all the colors, and in quantity, as soon as possible. This is a by-hand operation, so that will be awhile...
Elsewhere in the store:
Their needle selection was quite extensive, but was compacted in such a way as to make negotiation difficult. Their notions selection was quite good--I found the Clover yarn-cutting pendant in pewter, which means no more gnawing through yarn just because I'm on an airplane. Huzzah!
BUT--special to
walkyrja--I achieved one skein of Soy Silk's Pure in Vineyard Green. This is a Not-Wool that should be tolerable for Fair-Isle style stranded knitting, by which I mean, "a sweater for walkyrja". It was even on sale--but it was the last skein, and one skein is not a sweater, unless it's a verrrrry small. As a Not-Wool scale sweater is part of my Cunning Plan, I am okay with this--for the full-size test, I'll have to buy some ridiculous amount in any case. Said test will also have to wait for me to find cream of the same vintage; I'll make some calls.Even better was their book selection.
Directly pursuant to my research project, they had Knitting into the Mystery and Mindful Knitting. Both of these approach knitting as prayerful and meditative, although from fairly disparate places: the first is written by two good Christians who are Doing Their Best to Be Broadly Ecumenical--which, unfortunately, gives a certain New Age aroma to their words that I find off-putting.
Mindful Knitting approaches this, as one might suspect if one were jargon-clued, from a Buddhist perspective, including explicit instructions on how to incorporate knitting into meditation.
This is about all the mention they'll get in OT before I charge off on a couple paragraphs of my own inspired blather on the topic, of course.
But back to the store: they had all of the Knit-Dis's books save Knitting without Tears (a title that gives me a Crowley-flavored giggle every time I see it), and many back issues of her newsletter Wool Gathering, and no small number of the "Spun Out" patterns: patterns that had been in books and were then published separately. Of these, I was heartened to find copies of the pattern for the Baby Surprise Jacket, aka "that moonbat amoeba". Now I no longer have to feel guilty about letting
faeryl crib my notes. I will give her this and, should she lose it, it was bought so I will not feel bad about letting her copy it again.(It it were any other designer, I would probably be a bit more lax, but with EZ it butts up against respect for revered ancestors, something which I shouldn't not do.)
All this done, needles safely bought, I then ambled back down Eighteenth Street to Church, caught a MUNI J, stopped off at Market & Church in Deepest Castro to eat dinner and watch cute gay boys under the rainbow flags--and then another J to BART and home.
-- Lorrie
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We have several good stores around--however, that particular yarn is made, in part, from seaweed, and therefore is just the thing with which to make items dealing with any number of water-related Persons, as I'm sure you can understand!
-- Lorrie
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There's a lot to be said for a Sea Silk supply that's just there, even if the supply is tiny.
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it's a thought, heh?
Sparrow
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See you tomorrow night!
-- Lorrie
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I will have to wait for another time...
*pouts*
Sparrow
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As to a reason...I needed a reason to go to a yarn store?
So just pick a day!
-- Lorrie