WIP Wednesday: Crawl in progress

I can't give you details on the knitting I'm doing for the holiday season, but I can give you lots of colorful details about what I've added to my stash so far because of this year's Crawl:

1. From Hill Country Weavers: Yarn Carnival Highwire 3-ply in Amaranthine
2. From Tinsmith's Wife: Malabrigo Worsted in Nostalgia
3. From Yarnivore: Frabjous Fibers Wonderland Yarns Cheshire Cat Fingering Multi-Pack of 10 1-oz skeins in Dark Rainbow
4. From The Yarn Barn: Lone Star Arts Armadillo in Ellie Avery
5. From her studio: Alisha Goes Around Panoply of Peacocks Fingering in Macedonia
6. From Lucky Ewe: Vice Paradigm in Serendipity
7. From Old Oaks Ranch: Henry's Attic Prime Alpaca in Bare and Black
8. From The Knitting Nest: Trekking XXL in 550 (aww, no name)
9. From Gauge: Little Green Finch Plumage Ltd in a nameless one-of-a-kind colorway I'm calling Cranberry Orange and Theodora's Pearls Theodora's Saphhire in Chartreuse Spritz

I have plans for a few of the skeins.  The Alisha Goes Around has been on my radar for a while now to create the Twist Pullover.  This is actually the colorway used in the sample that made the cover of Knit Wear, though it appears darker in the magazine.  I've nearly bought the yarn several times before, in yarn stores or at fiber festivals, but being in her studio, it seemed like I might as well take the plunge now.

The Wonderland Yarns were a revelation.  They are a new yarn which debuted at TNNA this summer, and I'm in love.  The colors were all so gorgeous, I couldn't decide on one for a full skein, so I splurged on the entire rainbow of smaller skeins.  I'm thinking that this is going to make a glorious technicolor Mini Mania.

The others, well, they were just too pretty to leave behind, and many of them were part of the selection of 25% off yarns that can be used to make the patterns that each store handed out.  That's how I ended up with two skeins of the Malabrigo.  Such a good price, I might as well see if I can make a medium-sized project like a shrug.  And I have so much black and white alpaca, I think that will supply several projects.  Some of the bare yarn might even get dyed.

So there are the results of my Crawl in progress, more to come this weekend!  And more WIP Wednesday posts are at Tami's Amis.

How I Crawled: day one

I just posted a slideshow to Examiner with pics of everything I took home from the Crawl from each store, including the free gifts.  Click the link to see the pics, but I'm going to break it down here as well, at least the stuff I bought.

So, on day one:

• Nan's Needleworks: I really love the hand-dyed Stotts Ranch yarns here, but I held myself back from starting off with anything too expensive, and instead got a skein of color-shifting fingering weight.  It's called Nordlys, reminds me of Knit Picks Chroma.
• The Tinsmith's Wife: This place is so dangerous, they have such beautiful stuff from a lot of independent dyers.  I ended up with an absolutely gorgeous skein of Miss Babs, I couldn't resist the colors mixing with the shades of gray.
• Yarnivore: Another fingering weight yarn to try, this time a Regia Hand Dye Effects in purple.
• Lucky Ewe: Alert! Alert! Alert! This is where all plans of budgeting reasonableness completely disappeared in the face of fiber. Vice Yarn is done by a woman in Houston, and she was there with a trunk show.  I couldn't resist these skeins: a sparkly rainbow, black with bright color patches, and two color ways dyed especially for the Crawl.  And then I also got some pink and yellow fiber for spinning.  Because I was already going crazy.
• Old Oaks Ranch: Brooks Farm had a trunk show here, so I got a skein of fingering weight that should make a really pretty shawl.
• The Knitting Nest: At the end of a long and yarn day, I ended up getting buttons here, including a set that I think will go great with a cardigan I've had planned for years now.  Actually, it's not just been planned, I knit about an inch of it a while ago and just never got any further.  But now I have the buttons, so I have to finish, right?

And, of course, we stopped at Chill Out in San Antonio for frozen yogurt.  Dulce De Leche with Pumpkin and Pomegranate Raspberry?  It was like the most decadent layered fall dessert.  In fact, I think I'll blame the froyo high for the yarn explosion at Lucky Ewe.  Yes, that's it.  All the froyo's fault.

Life after the Crawl

What was that I said about not going crazy and buying 'all the yarnz'?

To be fair, I was doing quite well for most of the first day.  I made it out of Tinsmith's Wife in Comfort with just a single, beautiful skein of Miss Babs.  But I was broken by the trunk show of Vice Yarns at Lucky Ewe in Gruene.  And then the clearance section of Hill Country Weavers on day two just had too many deals to pass up.

I'll have all the fiberific details later this week, breaking down each store's gift and what I bought there.  Plus, I just found out that I won one of the store drawings, so maybe there will be even more to share!