drippy

it's been a little wet this weekend in la, but i don't really mind. yesteday i went on a litle yarn run over to santa monica and visited yarns unlimited and wildfiber. stupid me didn't bring the directions to wildfiber so i had to drive around for awhile before i eventually found it. i must say that it is a very nice store. they had a large selection of rowan and ggh, noro, and manos. mmmm. prices were a bit inflated. a dollar or more above what i usually find. i had to stop myself from getting some ggh kid mohair and manos. and they had a lot of koigu, which was really nice to see. it's $1 more than where i usually get it but the selection of colors is so much better. and they had a whole 30% off room, but i didn't find anything to my liking in there. however, you can't leave a yarn store empty handed, so i bought some of those 12in plastic clovers circs (in anticipation of my cash iroha sweater) and some bamboo straights in 3 and 4.

i did better at yarns unlimited and got an old interweave knits and a back issue of rebecca. they always have good prices there, even if the presentation isn't the poshest. also picked up a skein of black cascade 220 for some rainbow thrummed mitts.



love me some old issues of rebecca and interweave.

*update* sunday: went out to pasadena with my friend vanessa in an attempt to find some damn matching ribbon for the baby bonnet. apparently cute ribbon with lavender in it does not exist. we actually tried to go to this one fabric store listed online as being in burbank first. but when we got to the address, it was an apartment. maybe the business was in their house or the garage but i totally didn't feel like knocking on someone's door and finding out. too creepy for me. so off we went to pasadena. there we had a delicious lunch at bar celona (ha). we had some fried almods and patas bravas tapas. i wish i had my camera to take a picture of it. i love food pictures. and i had a great burger with mahon cheese and paprika fries. i loved barcelona (the city) and hope to go back someday.

we stopped by skein while we were there, too. the shop is very cute but it was so stuffy in there. they had a nice selection of yarns but prices were a bit steep. the owners were super nice but i kept getting this strange feeling. she showed us shop samples of ponchos and odd wraps and when she rung up my purchase she wrote down when the knitting lessons were. i am sure that she meant well but i felt a bit insulted that she thought i should take knitting lessons to make ponchos out of novelty yarn. is that snotty of me? but they did have an excellent selection of back issues of patterns (old bouton d'or, vogue, rebecca, and dale) and i got yet another rebecca and ik spring 2003. my bad.

but let me show you what i picked up from the post office on sat.


now what could this be?


variegated goodness all for me!

look at the lovelies that my secret pal sent me. i have so been wanting the handy book of knitting patterns. and the knit picks sock yarn is sooooo nice! love the green and purple. i can't wait to make me some squishy socks out of them. thanks so much, sp, you rock!

so about the new job- this coming week will be my last week at my old job. i love my boss to death but it was just time to move on. i will be getting a pay raise and benefits and will have access to a huge music catalog. i will be assisting two people in the sych dept (aka licensing) at warner music. they seem really cool and ii am excited but a bit apprehensive about doing new work and meeting new people. i totally thought i blew the interview by being honest and maybe too mell0w (but i am mellow). i guess they liked me enough to offer me the job. will let you all know how it goes after next week. i can't believe the weekend is over already.