A New Year, A New Blog

I have decided to change blogs for a few reasons:

• There are many things I would like to have as part of my blog that I cannot do with Yahoo 360 but that I will be able to do with Blogger. I have not implemented these things yet, but I will at some point now that I can.


• I couldn't think of a single advantage that Yahoo 360 has over Blogger or other similar sites--not for my purposes, anyway.


• Since my blog has become largely knitting oriented, I decided I would go ahead and hint at that (see my title? For non-yarnies, 'worsted' is a play on worsted weight yarn.)


• It's the new year, and why not?!

I didn't have to work today, so I went to a yarn store I've never been to before in order to procure some plant fiber yarns for the next round of traveling scarves. The store, The Shabby Sheep, is located right in the middle of Dallas, and everyone in there was SO nice and helpful. I can't wait to go back, which is more than I can say for the other dallas LYS I've been to. They didn't have a huge selection, but the owner told me that they had just had a huge sale and that they were low on stock right now, so I'm optimistic about going back later on. I did manage to get four different plant fiber yarns: two in green and two in purple. They are all very, very pretty (and if you're REALLY curious, you can check out my Flickr or my Stash on Ravelry).

I also got some lace yarn! Finally! A lady in the store was knitting with some and showed it to me, so I decided to get some, too. It's actually the hank shown in the background of my title bar. Another lady showed me a picture of a pattern on Knitty that is made using this yarn, and it was very, very pretty. I can't remember the name of it, but I think I'll recognize the name and/or the picture when I see it. I also got some more Claudia Handpainted sock yarn in light blue, and I can't wait to make some socks with it. Pretty, no?

I have also started on a sweater using some burnt orange Debbie Bliss Cashmerino, and I'm about this much into it:

Remember when I told you that I showed one of my friends, Sara, how to knit and sent her on her way with needles and yarn? I helped her bind off on this on New Year's Day:

The scarf kept tricking her by putting more and more stitches on her needles until she had 10 more than she started with. Her stitches were really pretty, though--Awesome job for her first finished object! She has already purchsed some really pretty brown and pink variegated and her own needles for her next project :)

Did I mention our New Year's party? It was pretty fun, and I'm still eating the leftovers. I'll leave out the gory details and just give you this nice picture of Amber (and Jeff, Robby, and Brandon, L to R) instead. She REALLY had a fun New Year's Eve ;)