Welcome to my new home!

So what do you do on a Sunday evening when your handy dandy thermometer says this?


(and for anyone that can't read the picture, it says that the outdoor temp is a balmy 12 degrees)

If you're my husband, you do this...



If you are the cats, you do this...
(first Kita... who is yawning, not howling, second Camilla)





And if you're me, you do this...





And drink this...


Ignore the obnoxious rust stain on my counter by the base of the bottle. For the life of me, I have no idea when that appeared. Like the collection of bottle caps at the top of the picture? The Sam Adams Boston Lager ones are Seth's and the White Ale ones are mine. I used to be a Sammy Winter Ale fan, but for the past couple of years, White Ale is where it is at.


On Friday, I had a vacation day and had plans to sit home and knit, but Cory suddenly got the opportunity to also have the day off so on a whim we decided to venture to...



This place is like a knitting joygasm. Cory thought it was intensely funny to watch me walk in the front door and have my jaw instantly drop. Kate... we seriously need to make plans to meet up in Bath and wander around the store. Maybe you, me, Jason and Seth can also catch lunch somewhere?

Cory was making her first "real" yarn purchase, and has decided that for her first project she wants to make a bag. She found a great pattern for a simple bag, and after wandering back and forth between the Noro and the Bartlett yarn for about 1/2 hour, she settled on the Bartlett yarn on a nifty reddish shade. Bartlett yarn is spun in Harmony, Maine, which is right next to the town she grew up in. I think that sealed the deal for her. I can't wait to see how the bag turns out.

For me, I wandered back and forth forever trying to decide how to spend the $30 I had. I knew I wanted some Sockotta sock yarn to make some socks in the Red or Pink color for March's Project Spectrum, but couldn't keep my eyes off a skein that was actually more blue and green than it is red. Regardless, maybe I can squeeze it in anyway since it does have a little red in it.



In one of the connecting rooms I discovered the most amazing yarn ever. Now, I know all of you will groan when I say what it is since I am sure that all of you have already worked with it, but to be honest, I've never seen it readily available before.


I love Malabrigo. Love it. Not only is it lovely to look at, but it is just heaven to work with. Even my brother, who knows nothing about yarn, thinks it is awesome. I've already told Seth that as soon as I get my tax return money, I am going to buy more. It will completely go against my recent rule of only buying yarn for projects that I already had in mind to make, but screw it. More Malabrigo will be mine!

I brought it home, rolled the first skein into a ball, and immediately cast on for the Short Row scarf found on Magknits.



I love the way that the Malabrigo is verigated ever so slightly, but not enough to pool in places. I can't wait to finish this scarf.