Trippin’

This past Thursday I drove up to Oklahoma to visit my parents.  Despite a hailstorm and a cracked windshield, it was a pretty nice trip.

Last time I visited my parents, I dragged them to a couple of different yarn shops for a mini LYS crawl.  This time my mom beat me to it.  She found a new one for us to visit.  This is especially nice since she doesn’t knit–although she does have the makings of a champion enabler.  She took me to the L & B Yarn Co. in Norman, OK.  This yarn store easily competes with my affections for The Woolie Ewe.  L & B is a very swank shop and the women who work there are very nice.  My dad was dragged along  to the store, and they set him up their classroom with a soda so he could read his book in comfort.  I walked out with–

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Those would be Crystal Palace Yarn’s Panda Cotton in Roses and Prism Yarn’s Lacewool in a very pretty Mojave.  The Panda Cotton will of course become socks one day, but I am still not sure what the Lacewool will be.  Maybe the Spirit of the Southwest shawl or the Children of Lir.

We also went back to the Gourmet Yarn Co. and I acquired even more laceweight.

Mom disapproved of my getting a navy yarn when there were more colorful yarns to be had, but this is the perfect color for the Scotch Thistle Stole that I picked up at the Dallas Fiber Festival.

You know what this blog has been missing?  Cat pictures!  Because I have no cats, you’ll have to settle for pictures of my parents’ cats.  Sunny decided to help me bag books.  And Sampson ignored me.

*Update*

This was on the coffee table when I got home.

Matt spent from midnight to 2 am getting the gigantic knot out of the sock yarn.  A husband who will spend two hours unknotting yarn is super special.