Yarn Tasting Goodies

As I mentioned yesterday, we went to a Yarn Tasting last night which was totally awesome. It was at Hanks, of course, the coolest yarn shop in all of Gainesville (if not the southeast). There were about a dozen groovy knittas, and we were very honored to be among the chosen few. We each got a couple of mini-skeins of lovely silk yarn from Tilli Thomas, a pretty awesome-sounding company. I chose the white and red yarns in that picture above, but Emma was the big winner. She came away with Rock Star Mermaid, the multicolored ball in the middle of the picture. Very cool.

So the only minor, minor complaint that I have was that the red dye runs a bit. Look at my needles in that picture…see how red the points are, compared to the ends? It was all over my hands, too…I didn’t want to touch the white yarn, for fear of it getting stained. QQ more, eh?

We also bought a little more of the yarn. I bought a nice blue skein of the Pure and Simple (like the red) and Emma bought a skein of jade Plie (like the purple). I don’t know what I’m going to do with it yet, but I’ll figure out something. Any suggestions?