Itching to Knit

Last night at our regular Thursday night stitching group I had the sudden, overwhelming need to knit. I wanted to feel the rhythmic movements as my hands work back and forth working beautiful yarn into something special. The last thing I need to do is buy more yarn so I delayed my gratification until I got home. That is where I went to my stash and found this gorgeous ball of Anne sock yarn from Schaefer Yarns. I also have a pattern for a lace scarf designed for this yarn. I had struck pay dirt!

This is what I worked on today and it is my ideal knitting project: gorgeous yarn and an interesting but not difficult pattern that is perfectly suited to the yarn.

Our order of yarn for Undulating Waves shipped today and I asked them to include 6 hanks of Anne just in case somebody else might consider this their ideal knitting project! The pattern is free with the yarn purchase. Mark your calendars - June 5th is when the Schaefer is due to arrive.

I also have another Schaefer project in my queque, so when I finish this I will cast on for that. If you like that one we will get the yarn for that as well. Can you tell I am on a Schaefer bandwagon? Our retreatees discovered Schaefer at The Tinsmith's Wife in Comfort. Here are three things for you to love about Schaefer:

1. GORGEOUS handpainted yarn.

2. Free patterns with yarn purchase.

3. Large quantities so that many projects can be made with only 1 hank/ball. This makes them great items to make as gifts or to give to a knitter as a gift. No quantity guesses!

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