Yarn Truth
Do you know what this is?
This is a pile of proof that the jerky guy at the post office, the one not-nice person we met our first week here, is a stinkin' liar.
He's the man who told me that no, they never deliver packages to the doorsteps. I would get a notice in my box and have to come to the main office to pick up the package.
Well, of course, I wanted to test the system, so I placed an order with The Loopy Ewe. What? It's a new address! I had to make sure that the yarn wouldn't get lost on the way to El Paso. It's probably never been to this house before.
I was delighted to arrive home one day last week and see a Priority Mail box propped up next to my front door. The sock yarn found me! Yay! In that pile you see starting from the left - Duets Skinny in Stormy Optimist (I love the name as much as the color), All Things Heather in Fig and Plum, Indie Dyer in Tex-Mex, and Malabrigo worsted in something Azul (it's amazingly blue).
Guess what? It was 110 today. Really hot. We went to the pool. My routine is to get nice and soaked in the rather cold pool, then sit down and knit while I warm up and dry off. The Soleil tank top is maybe half way done now and the Moving to El Paso socks are almost ready for the cuff ribbing.
This pile of yarn, however, was not the official first sock yarn to arrive at the new home. Weekend before last, on Saturday morning we let Daniel the GPS lead us to Las Cruces, NM. We were headed for a yarn shop named Unravel, but we found much more. When we arrived, we were surprised to see the parking lot was packed. We beat some senior citizens to a spot by a dumpster and went to see what was going on.
Every Saturday and Wednesday, the downtown mall of Las Cruces is host to a craft fair, farmer's market, and general party. There were many tables of beautiful handmade jewelry, so much to the point I couldn't choose anything because it was all too pretty. Carrots recently pulled from the earth, fresh made bread, hand made soaps, etc. Along the mall was also a huge used bookstore that I look forward to returning to and spending more time in.
Inside Unravel were comfy chairs for the family to relax in while I browsed. They had a nice selection of standard yarns and it would be worth the 45 minute drive if I really wanted to see the colors in person and feel the yarn. That's 2 LYSes within an hour of me! I bought this:
Lonesome Stone Mountain Feat sock yarn in the colorway Wild Flowers Gone Wild. It comes from Colorado and I couldn't resist a new, western yarn.
that malabrigo is SO blue! nice!
Posted by: Carly | June 17, 2008 at 04:40 AM
Yea!, your yarn found your new home! Hee - it's kind of like Christmas when you're a kid and you spend it at a relatives, and you're panicked thinking Santa might not be able to find you!
Posted by: lynda | June 17, 2008 at 05:41 AM
It's almost like the new house has been Christened with pretty yarn.
Posted by: Holly | June 17, 2008 at 08:26 PM
Hooray for yarn and some sense of normalcy! I'm glad you got your package and I am very jealous of your very cool market! I would love to browse books and handmade jewelry. So long as I have coffee in hand, that is.
Posted by: Marsha | June 19, 2008 at 07:38 PM
Stinkin' liar mailman...Cool yarn!
Ang
Posted by: angelarae | June 20, 2008 at 06:46 PM
Gorgeous colors!
Posted by: Marie | June 20, 2008 at 10:23 PM