TAKING BACK [THE KNIT]

like knitted zombies! Impressive, to say the least.

I went to Michael's last night and bought $50 worth of yarn. Not a lot, considering how much I wanted but a lot considering I have no steady income! Anyway, I got some Lion Brand Wool Ease worsted in a dark grey color for Mariah. I hadn't know until yesterday that Michael's started carrying Patons Classic Merino (I think it's called? The 100% wool one!) So I can get yarn for felting without having to go to the LYS. Even though I am all about supporting mom and pop type stores over chains, I am really not a big fan of my LYS, and I'm not sure why. Too much novelty yarn, I think. Anyway, I bought an olive-ish green and a darker green and also a color that they call teal but I don't think that really does it justice. The colors are really beautiful and very bold. I almost bought the teal to make Mariah with, but I thought that might be too much. So I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the teal, probably something felting-related. Maybe another purse.

This morning, I brought my yarn and pattern with me, and I was going to knit before class for an hour or so. Why not, eh? I'll tell you why: because my printer didn't print row 1 of chart C for the stinking Mariah pattern. WTF? So I got online to check that out, and now I'm doing this. Ugh. Seriously, I've got the whole freakin' chart except row 1. I'm really not even sure how that happened, but it makes me mad.