Hrafn Sweater: Bleargh!

Predictably, I have run out of the blue yarn I'm using for the body of my sweater shortly before I ran out of sweater.

Really, the perversity of the universe tending to a maximum as it does, I really was tempting fate:

• I found The Best Yarn for My Sweater Ever!


• Stash's computer said it had nine skeins in Midnight Blue, though we could only find eight.


• The pattern called for ten skeins of Some Other Yarn. I knew then I should have hunted down whatever yarn Elspeth Lavold had been on about and extrapolate to mine.


• ...especially after my my handy estimator thingy said "yeah, given that gauge and your bust? INSUFFICIENT YARN ERROR."


• Oh, and the manufacturer apparently only ships anything twice a year.


• Nope, no other local yarn store I called carries this stuff.


• Nor a lot of online stores. Who knew that 50% superwash/50% merino implied 0.1% unobtanium?

I did eventually find it...now, do I pay $5 for shipping by Priority Mail, which will turn up Wednesdayish and mean I can't steek at Stitch & Bitch on Wednesday, or $20 for Express Mail, which means a Tuesday arrival and mmmmmaybe I can still make it happen?

Well, they'll not be packing it until noon at the earliest in any case. I'm sure in the morning I'll realize that one day's net shipping difference, no matter how much it might make me climb the walls, will not really make the difference in whether or not I'll have it for Pcon.

...hey! Sleep! What a great idea!

-- Lorrie (*thud*)

Stalking the Elusive Sweater Yarn--Q'pla!

Thanks to a tip from zoe_me, I found the right yarn at Purlescence, in beautiful downtown Sunnyvale. While they're not ordinarily open on Sunday, they are today--for an anti-Super-Bowl party, where all yarn is 25% off. Oh, and in sufficient quantity that I needn't fret about a run on the stuff in the next couple hours.

IT'S ON SALE IN MY HOUR OF NEED REALLY OBNOXIOUSLY LOUD WANT! IT MUST BE A SIGN!

*!grin!*

dpaxson is willing to lend her wheels to the effort, which is nice as otherwise it's not likely I'll have the sweater by Pantheacon. One knows, however, that "done by Pantheacon" is sufficient inducement in her world, as it would be in mine, and so.

For during-con knitting, I shall have lovely, talented, very portable, non-bulky...socks. They may be the only non-bulky thing going to the con in my luggage, unlike, say, the several devotional shawls and other things for my Show and Tell Pagan Fiber Arts panel at P-Con.

-- Lorrie

PS: "Q'pla!" For the scanty handful on my flist who are insufficiently fannish (...!?), it's Klingon. For when one wants an enthusiastic ejaculatory interjection for "Success!". Also usable as a parting statement, like wishing someone good luck. I find it a satisfactorily heathen (and unashamedly modernist) sort of thing.