Thursday, October 12, 2006

My Pretties

Okay, so we've established that I have a little Addams family in me. Case in point: This spring Tom asks what I'd like to do for our wedding anniversary. Normally we're really lowkey - we exchange cards and go to dinner at a favorite restaurant - but this year I was in a yarn induced euphoria when he asked, and thus blurted out, "Go to Black Sheep Knittery." Being a really nice guy, he said okay and off we went.

This small store has an arty vibe and a lovely yarn selection. Their corner o' Koigu is especially mouthwatering, and I quickly sidled up to it. There, my eye fell upon these goodies:






I gasped out some inane comment like "I didn't even know Koigu came in Halloween colors," Tom paid the bill and off we went. I carried the skeins around with us all day. Thrilled to death, over dinner I informed him I'd begun a Halloween yarn collection. (He was like "That's nice, dear. Please pass the green curry.")

Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when Mary brought these to my attention:



Hill Country Yarns Sweet Feet in Candy Corn and...




...Monster Mash. Available here. We placed an order, and our skeins arrived a few days ago. The Candy Corn is indeed sweet, and the Monster Mash...well, what's not to love about a hank of bright green, black and purple yarn?! After this, there was no stopping me in my quest for Halloween colorways. I jumped online, scouring etsy and a few handdyer's blogs. Summarily struck out with Scout for her Socktoberfest, but the gracious Georgia aka Yarn Pirate has a skein of her Spooky reserved for me in her next dyebatch.

And pssst, if you know of any other creepy Halloween yarns, lemme know, okay? Cackle, cackle.

3 comments:

mary said...

All of it delightfully spoooooooky! Watch my site for yarn porn coming soon.

mehitabel said...

Dagnabit, Madge, now I have to have me some candy corn... and maybe a little monster mash too... oh, heck throw in some o' them halloween pumpkins too. After all, I do have a couple of people in the family who either love orange and/or are obsessed with Halloween. My credit card is sooo going to hate me...

jillian said...

Super sock yarn, batman!

I'm always yarn shopping, er, looking, so I'll keep an eye out for yoU!