Goodie Boxes!!!!

Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this scenario?? Knit one pair, buy enough yarn for three more pair - Repeat?

Ok - my name is Blu and I'm becoming a Yarn-a-holic. But with such pretty colors, can it be such a sin???

The skeins above are the new

Fleece Artist colors - Georgia O'Keefe (love her watercolors!), and Willa Cather - a 20th Century novelist. Then, the other is the neatest stuff!! From UrbanGypZ - colorway is Koi, Vey!

I have included a close-up of this - and you can see the candy cane effect of the different ply that was designed to super-saturate with dye giving a nice twist accent to the yarn. Totally cool!

Manly Socks! Complete!!

Finally - the Manly Natural Alpaca Socks are complete!!! Yippee!! With only about three yards left over from each skein, I managed to complete these oh-so-soft, yummy chocolate brown socks from 300 yards (2 skeins) of yarn spun from Lily's fur.

Lily:

Finished these just in the nick of time, too! More, brightly colored yarn is on it's way to my mailbox!

Tiny Dilemma

Yes - it's the Manly Alpaca Sock . . . in all it's half-done glory!! Note to self . . . when making men's socks, typically it will take more than 300 yards of yarn. Aargh! So - I'm half-way through the foot and you can see the tiny ball of yarn that's left . . .

Of course, there is another skein, so this sock will be finished. But the second sock . . . no way! I will check (plead, beg, and otherwise humiliate myself) at the Ferguson Farmer's Market next Saturday morning in an attempt to get just one more skein of Lily's fluff (the alpaca in question), but when I got this, her owner said it was the last until the next shearing.

Maybe she was dishonest . . . but I don't think so :(

How often CAN you shear an alpaca . . . in October . . . just before the Midwest winter sets in???