Did the round of the thrift stores and made a score at the Mennonite Thrift Shop. A bunch of old McCall's Needlework & Crafts (I collect these from the 50s-70s) and a little bag of odds and ends of sock yarn that immediately called out monster socks to me. There appears to be three different colorways here.
And finally, went into a wonderful little yarn shop: Knitting Time, where I found some lovlies. Been looking for the Great American afghan books for ages, they are very hard to find around here. So I picked up Great American Afghan and Great North American Afghan 2. Also got some cute Regia sock needles with little sock protectors, these are Us #0's which I needed a second set for the Latvian Socks the Folk Socks Kal is knitting. And finally mustn't leave without sock yarn, so here we have some Online sock yarn in a beautiful fall shade orange/lime/red.
And I did get some knitting done. Not as much as I had hoped, I was way too tired on the ride home to knit but did get the Chevron socks finished, and have another set of yellow dishcloths done. I have just enough yellow left for one more cloth I think.
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I'm on the gussets of the second Conway sock and should have a FO next time I post.
2 comments:
Knitting Time is a great little store. Next time your in Lethbridge check out the Needlecraft Cupboard too, it is just kitty corner from Blockbuster in the strip mall on 13th street. I love shopping at both stores, lots of variety and they don't carry alot of the same yarns too. Happy Knitting.
How is it that people find yarn at thrift shops? I have never been so lucky. :( I do like looking through the old craft books, though.
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