The weather here in Toronto has been terrible lately – it’s been so cold out, I’ve been spending most of my time inside. Today, however, we had a bit of a heat wave, which meant that although I still had my coat done up and was still wearing mittens, I could get by without a hat!
To celebrate this “nearly shorts weather, really” weather, I decided to stop in at Zellers on my way home from work to pick up a ball of off-white Phentex worsted yarn and maybe some socks.
Success!
Well, ok, sorta… no need to adjust your screen, the yarn is blue. I think it’ll work anyway. I got it for joining 8″ squares together. The squares were made by my fellow guild members and the finished blanket will go to Warming Families. I took a bunch of squares home with me from the last meeting, along with several balls of off-white yarn, but I don’t believe I have enough of that yarn to join the blanket.
ANYway…
I had a bit of an accident while I was at Zellers. I spent so much time hemming and hawing over the Phentex and the lack of off-whiteness that I knocked into a shelf and some extra yarn fell into my cart. I was helpless to resist.
Let’s see… the yellow and pink on the right seems to be Bernat Soft Boucle; the variegated in the middle is Bernat Handicrafter cotton, and the blue stuff on the left might be Astra.
I was quite a hit on the subway with this giant bag of yarn, let me tell you!
(Don’t worry, there were lots of empty seats available; the yarn wouldn’t have gotten a seat otherwise!)
Here’s the bag again, this time sitting on the loveseat:
Why am I showing you this? Well, I want to give you an idea as to the scale of the bag… because the printing on the bag is actually a helpful guide to what you can reuse the bag for.
Personally, I’m going to go with #5:
(I’m assuming #6 there is for your average residential elephant owner…)
June 24th, 2011 
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