I made my own yarn porn for today!
It's vaguely obnoxious to be all "I rule, I rule!!" but I'm seriously in love with this skein. It's up for sale in the shop, and it's probably my favourite in there right now. The shimmer, the colour, the squishability, and the fact that I got what I wanted out of it - that's three in a row now! A bulky two-ply (check!), a three-ply sock weight (check!) and a two-ply worsted weight (check!) - I'm becoming a goal-oriented spinner, rather than just a throw-it-on-the-wheel-and-take-what-I-get spinner.
Worsted, for some reason, usually evades me; I either end up on the DK side or the bulky side of it. In this case, I credit the fiber, a stunning merino/bamboo blend that came from Michelle at The Sweet Sheep. It was the final - I think? - installment from her fiber club, and I've been hoarding it for a while because I both loved it and was a little afraid of it (how does bamboo behave with merino? quite well, actually.)
Yep. Love it.
Okay, I won like a ton of stuff this week, and there are contests EVERYWHERE, and I keep entering them, even though I really shouldn't because I've already won two this week...so in order to balance out my debt to the Universe, I figured I should hold YET ANOTHER contest! (Winners of my last contest, your prizes will be along - as soon as the markers come in, I'll ship the goods!)
So I kinda made you work for the last one. This one I'll keep simple - just comment. Yep, any old random comment between now and Wednesday gets you an entry (I'll only enter each individual once, but hey, comment all you want. And if anyone on Ravelry wanted to call this shameless whoring for comments, I suppose they could - but it's really just an excuse for me to give stuff away and who would complain about that?)
I'll draw a winner Thursday morning. Prize? Do you even have to ask? Sock yarn. (Or, if you don't knit socks....I don't know, some other sort of yarn. There's no shortage 'round here.) Feel free to spread the contesty love on your blog, send people here, this ain't no secret.
Have a good weekend!
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