Have you bought any yarn or supplies today?

Dear users, dear authors,
okay, the Wool Empress is taking a break until 2018. So you can admit that you’ve bought some yarn—I won’t tell the Empress. :-)

I’ll be the first to confess :-) But that was yesterday, so it doesn’t really count. Two skeins of sock yarn have found their way into my home, and now I’m playing with them :-)

Today I treated myself to some sock yarn in Christmas colors. I’m going to crochet or knit little St. Nicholas bags out of it. I also bought fabric for a doll’s sleeping bag.

I confess that I bought something today. But it’s not wool—it’s a Tunisian crochet hook in a specific size. I really need to try it out.

Best regards, Marion

Well, actually… I’d sworn to myself I’d go on a “wool diet” until at least the start of the year. And then, completely unsuspecting, I went to the early Christmas market here in our village last Saturday—it’s called the “Saumarkt” here.

Since there’s never been anything special there, I only put a twenty in my pocket. After all, you never know…

I’m sure you can guess what happened. Right in the middle of it all—for the first time, by the way—there was a yarn booth!!! I thought I wasn’t seeing right!

Well, of course I couldn’t resist; it all looked sooo tempting. And once I had that first ball of yarn in my hand… it just didn’t want to leave me. I immediately knew what I wanted to make with it. And the color next to it… just as beautiful!

And since I didn’t have enough money with me, I rushed home and got some more cash. No distance was too far for me when it came to yarn. I’m sure you know how it is.

The result: these 5 balls absolutely had to come home with me. And they’re already looking forward to getting on the needles :-) :-) and to my grandchildren.


That was my early St. Nicholas Day gift to myself.

Ahem. Actually, I’m stocked up until the end of time, but I placed an order today with an irresistible online retailer. Because 1. I have a cold and need some comfort, 2. I need special yarn (cheap acrylic yarn, sigh) to make prototypes for commissioned designs, 3. I finally found wool for the color challenge where the mint green doesn’t look like a toilet freshener :-)

Oh dear, there’s no stopping me when it comes to buying yarn right now. Just yesterday—I was just going to take a look, of course—I was hooked all over again... I really needed some comfort—and I guess I’m just like other people when it comes to shoes—so I’m off to get some “medicine”—at my favorite yarn shop, of course ;-))

Yessss, I confess—I bought some yarn. Beautiful yarn for the January project. Now I just need that brilliant idea—or rather, there are simply too many, and I can’t make up my mind. But I’m looking forward to crocheting with this yarn. I’ve already tested it out and noticed that it’s a joy to work with.

I haven’t yet, but I’m seriously considering whether I should buy one—as a Christmas gift for my mother-in-law.
Unfortunately, I almost never get her color preferences right. Well, I could order four different ones and then keep the three that don’t quite match for myself.....

I sat down over the weekend and took stock of my yarn corner. The result: 120 skeins of Catania yarn, 60 skeins of Linie 50 yarn, and still plenty of half-used skeins. My embroidery thread corner doesn’t look any better either. As far as I’m concerned, I won’t be buying any more yarn until summer 2018—I’ll just be using up what I have.

I’ve only just started my new yarn cake and the shawl, so it’ll be a while before I need anything. But just to be on the safe side, I picked up some pretty sock yarn. It was spring yarn ... Man, you’re really infecting me with all this stash buying, help!

Not today, and I don’t plan to, but yesterday a package arrived with a few skeins of yarn!
Over the past two weeks, I’ve gone against my resolutions and bought more yarn to knit Christmas gifts. But now I really, really need to go on a yarn diet…

Just three skeins for the colour event.

Not today, but the day before yesterday, 8 skeins of cuddly yarn :) 
Today I was hoping my new Bobbel would arrive, but I guess it wasn’t meant to be... 

Yesterday, three more skeins found their way into my collection, ahem.

Dear ruthk

Will you show us your finished little bags? Sock yarn in Christmas colors sounds tempting, and so does the project!

A curious ChristinaE

I took advantage of happy hour at my favorite yarn shop earlier and ordered four 150 g yarn cakes.

Creatowl, me too. So much for my principles....