Anna - Stickande trädgårdsstudent

I visited Amsterdams best yarnshop yesterday, Penelope Craft, and I ofcourse bought some yarn, alot of some yarn..

 

First off all I needed another skein of Skein Seasalt to finish my latest design project, then I needed two skein of admiral to knit two baby cardigans.

 

So that's what I needed - now we come to what I wanted.

I've been wanting to knit the Acrons cardigan like forever and I felt that now was the time.

So what I wanted was five skeins of Cascade worsted yarn to knit that cardigan.

 

Then I felt I wanted something more, but I didn't know just what.

I've been looking at the Holst yarn, admiring the colors but not liking the feeling of it. But when Malia showed me a pair of cuffs knitted with Holst, the yarn had a totally different feeling and was really super soft.

So I wanted two balls of Holst and I bought that too.

 

After 3,5 hours of chatting about yarn, patterns and litterature I left Penelope at closing time with this: