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.