I have been faithfully working on Cinxia. Then, horror of horrors, I ran out of yarn! Yes, I am 3-4″ from finishing her up and there is no more green cotton left!
Now remember this is the yarn I purchased on my great yarn adventure in Pennsylvania so I can’t just run over and pick some more up. I call several of my LYS, and they have never even heard of Mirasol cotton. I then e-mail the store that I purchased it from in PA, explain my predicament, and ask if they have 1 or 2 hanks left that I can purchase long distance. In 2 days they still had not responded and I figure my odds are low that they will still have any left anyway. I check on Ebay and find someone selling some of my green gold, it is from a different dyelot, but I am almost ready to risk it at this point. Finally yesterday morning I figure out what I should have done in the 1st place. I checked the Mirasol website and found the list of shops that carry their yarn here in MN.
The 1st store on the list was 3 Kittens Needle Arts. I call, they carry the cotton yarn, and the lady very nicely puts me on hold to see if they have it in green. They do! I don’t even ask what dyelot it is, I am so excited! I head off to South St Paul to check it out!
These 2 fine hanks of yarn came home with me and I will have Cinxia finished soon!! Can you even believe that they were the same dyelot as what I bought in April! I was beyond thrilled and it was totally worth the 1/2 hour drive! The store itself was very nice. They are getting ready to relocate soon, but not too far from where they are located now. The ladies were friendly and obviously helpful (people calling in with requests can be a hassle). I will definitely check out their new store because they had some really nice silk/merino wool blends that I would like to try.
In my last post I was all a twitter about my tomatoes. You would think by now I would be picking and eating some of my 14 gifts from nature. Uh, no. Nature (namely squirrels I have decided) has been taking her gifts back!! Of the 14 tomatoes that were on my plant 10 days ago I have 1 left on the vine and this one which my scavengers dropped.
As excited as I was on my yarn find above….I was about that far the other direction in my disappointment of losing my crop of vegetables! In the meantime my beefy tomatoes have started coming on, but the romas seems to be the only thing my backyard critters are interested in so far. I have sprayed them all with Invisible Fence, but that doesn’t seem to bother them. They have knocked over 2 of my pots…..I assume while they are trying to climb them to steal their dinner. If anyone has any ideas about discouraging them I would love to know!
The same dyelot?? How lucky is that! Excellent!!