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Earlier today, I decided that I wanted to take a run out to Jo Ann's (craft store) because I needed some black yarn (Caron One Pounder) to finish an afghan that I started seemingly ages ago and now, I have an almost desperate urge to finish up. Well...... I thought that they were open until at least 9 pm but when I got there, it was a little past 7:30 pm and they were closed. Bleh... so I went to Michael's (another craft store...). They were closed too.

By now, I'm just about ready to tear my hair out so I decide to run by Walmart to see if they have any black yarn. Thankfully, they had 2 skeins of Red Heart black in the one pound skeins. I also saw that Caron put out more colors in their 'heather' line (a really deep plum purple that broke my heart) so I took all 4 skeins that they had there.

Which brings me to where I'm at now... I had started a sweater (long sleeved, one color) but, I 'tried it on' and it's waaaaaayyyy too big so I'm starting over. It's kind of breaking my heart but at least I can make it in the new purple yarn.

http://knitting-up-a-storm.blogspot.com/2007/04/5-in-paris.html

This is the pattern I'm using but it's just going to be one color and long sleeved. I had gotten tired of edging all the squares for the afghan (all the squares have on round of black so the joinings won't be noticable) and wanted to work on the sweater so I can... oh gee, wear it? It's a really pretty, basic pattern so hopefully, once I get started on this one, it won't be huge on me (the only reason why I know that it'll be too big is the neckline is super huge and I know that it wouldn't stay up around my shoulders...). I thought about trying to fix that but I had too many stitches cast on and I would have had to redo the whole thing anyway.

What I really wanted was more Paton's Shetland Chunky Tweed in the charcoal color for making a sweater (why I was going to Jo Ann's in the first place). It's bulky yarn but it's sooooo soft, wool blend but machine washable (something that I always look for when I'm buying yarn... not a fan of hand washing anything).

I have 3 skeins of the above mentioned yarn but I wanted to get more as a long sleeved sweater takes roughly 1000 yards of yarn to make a long sleeved sweater. The Simply Soft is about 250 yards and each skein of Shetland Chunky is 123 yards. It would take just over 8 skeins of the SC since the Simply Soft has twice the yardage... So, I'm making a long, wide scarf from the SC for now. I'd really love to make a sweater out of it but I guess that will have to wait a while.

I also made a pair of hand warmers, a pattern by the same chick that designed the sweater pattern that I'm making too. For a while, I've been looking for a pattern that included a thumb instead of just having a hole that your thumb sticks out of. Honestly, I got both done within 24 hours and finished them shortly after that. And the best part is that I had the exact yarn that she used. I'll probably make more out of different colors, just for the heck of it.