The Yarn

It came from Purl Soho in New York City.  Whenever I take a trip, I am always open to picking up a little souvenir yarn, of course.  And my trip to New York City this summer provided ample opportunity as Manhatten has a veritable buffet of yarn shops.  This was a short trip, tho, and (quite frankly) I was lucky to make it to one yarn shop.  Sarah — who I consulted by phone — and I selected Purl Soho and it was a terrific choice.  Lots of lovely yarn all in a very smart urban shop.  I could have gone a bit wild, really — except that it was a smolderingly hot day in the middle of summer in the middle of the city and the humidity was killer and we had been walking all day….and (quite frankly) I could not work up much enthusiasm for wool and alpaca yarns (there was very little in way of summer yarns — silk, linen — tho there was probably some cotton…).  I was sweaty and hot and tired and my feet were done (and I was, quite frankly, distracted because we had tickects to see our son Geoff in a lead role in the off-Broadway show Queen of the Night for that evening and I was pretty darn excited aboout that!).

 BUT this was my New York City Yarn Shop Experience!  So, I rallied as best I could and petted and sniffed and ooooo-ed and hmmmm-ed my way methodically through the shop twice.  And since I found myself returning to some delicious Koigu, I decided to go with that. But for what?  The only knitted piece that seemed at all useful at that moment was a copious and absorbant handkerchief for mopping up my own sweat.  

Well, I reasoned, there was no need to conjure a project at the moment.  I would select yarn and figure out what it would become at a later time (when I had cooled down, put my feet up, and regained my senses).  And, what was even better, I would get "matching" yarn for Sarah and we would come up with something to knit together!  Most Excellent!  So, I snatched up 2 skeins of the intriguing variegated Koigu KPM that had been winking at me ever since I came into the shop — and selected a mildly tonal sandy Koigu and a shameless Koigu shaded raspberry-to-burgandy for myself.  And a variegated in blues for Sarah — with a light neutral companion and a bright blues-y companion similar to my own set of yarns.

Done!  Tune in next time for Part 2: The Pattern

And, by the way, Queen of the Night was incredible and Geoff was fabulous, and (quite frankly)  we had a terrific time!