I blame the wool fumes
Apr 14th, 2007 by Ginger
A week or so ago Emma and I decided we would go the the Seattle Knitting Expo so we could buy more roving. Crown Mountian Farms was going to be there, and I love how the pencil roving I have from them is spinning up. Must buy more pencil roving. Then last night Emma e-mails me about a warehouse sale on Craigslist. A yarn warehouse sale who’s address Googles as the Cascade Yarns warehouse, just over the freeway from the Expo . . . bitch.
This morning I got up before the birds, as my husband, the morning person, pointed out. I picked up Annie, who’s arm I twisted last night to come with us (right!), and then we cruised over to Emma’s so we could pile into her car to make the pilgrimage to the Seattle Knitting Expo.
We made great time and were there about ten minutes early, and had to stand outside the doors peering in at all the yarn and roving, and drool wait.
The first place we dumped a load of cash purchased a bit of roving was at Reflection Farm Wool Products.   We all had a difficult time choosing which lovely roving(s) to take home with us. See how much Emma loves her roving.
We also left some money at Crown Mountian Farms and Williams Wools & Weaving (no website yet). We bought a bit of roving between the three of us.
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We staggering out of Expo with our credit cards smoking.  Since the warehouse sale didn’t start for half an hour we stopped for a bit of refreshment. Bolstered by hashbrowns and beverages, we made the trek to the Cascade Yarns warehouse . . . where we bought a bit of yarn . . .
The yarn was hard to resist, $20 for a 10 skein bag.  At those prices it’s lucky we walked out with as little as we did.
Ok, here is the final damage:
 
15.9oz of color #78 from Reflection Farms
 
8oz Superwash - Good Vibrations
8oz Pencil Roving - Promise of Spring
from Crown Mountian Farms
 
Gray Merino from Williams Wools & Weaving
(could be 2.5lbs, but I may have to deny it)
2 bags Revolution, green for shrug for Bug, pink/gray/black for felted bag for me; 1 bag of 128 Tweed, natural
When you break it down it doesn’t look that bad! Besides half of your purchases were dirt cheap yarn.
I have yet to take a photo of the individual purchases. I’m very afraid.
I should have gone, I should have gone. Shoot. Drat. I at least will get to see you spin it all up! Glad you had a great time!!
So. Jealous.
….a trunk full of wool….
(falls down from shock and envy)
Woweeee. That’s enough to send me into a coma right there. $20 for a 10-skein bag?! I shudder to think what damage I would have done (if it wasn’t for the fact that I live nowhere near Cascade’s warehouse. lol)
Looks like you hit the jackpot! All very pretty. Can’t wait to see what all you make with it.
I have the shakes just looking at it.
Went to the beach this weekend, stayed in a little tee-niney-weenie town (Ocean Park). Nearly blew a tire out when I spotted a yarn store at the tip of the peninsula. I didn’t get as much as you, but I bet I spent as much!
This makes my hit-and-run shopping at the Expo look really reasonable. It was only 2.5 pounds of roving total…
wow Im so jealous! why arnt aussie expos that good!