sweetgeorgia

My wallet is almost $300 lighter after this weekend. How could I resist the temptation of perfect merino wool? In Chocolate Brown, no less? We were at Yaohan and Aberdeen this Saturday and I picked up a pack of Filatura di Crosa Zara for myself (at the AlphaGift/Craft shop upstairs) — no pattern in mind yet but the yarn is DK weight so I’m sure I’ll find something I like! I also picked up a 10 skeins of Zara Plus (the aran weight version of Zara) for a couple of scarves for my brothers… Oh the Christmas knitting that I wasn’t going to get involved in! But happily, it knits up fast on my new bamboo needles…

Yes, that’s right! I discovered that Daiso now carries knitting needles! Lovely Japanese bamboo needles in regular and mini lengths for $2 a pair! Ok, their selection is quite limited and unfortunately there aren’t any DPNs but the needles that they do have a quite nice! You’ll have to bring some sort of a Japanese needle size conversion chart with you though since Japanese sizes are completely different from US sizes. The larger sized needles are in mm sizes.

And finally, across from AlphaCraft is the Iwase bookstore, full of Japanese books and magazines. I bought a knitting mag for me and one with patterns for the DH. He flipped through and said, “Hmm, yeah, I could wear that” and that was that. For me, my magazine is mostly cabled sweaters very much like Rowan’s Vintage Style and Yorkshire Fable. I might just find something to knit with the Jaeger Luxury Tweed that’s coming.

Also in cheap knit thrills, knitters in the Lower Mainland can also head over to Dress-Sew (Hastings and Homer Streets) for aluminum needles priced at $0.99 a pair! I almost bought myself a set of size 1 DPNs there…