Yarn Porn Ahead...

A couple of weeks ago, the LYS had their infamous "bag sale". People come from all over the place to buy yarn. It's all steeply discounted but the catch is everything is in bags of 10 skeins- hence the name "bag sale". Basically the yarn is 50% off of retail.

They used to do the bag sales only twice a year but I guess they have so much yarn that they decided to have an extra sale. People are crazy at these things; last time I was 8.5 mos preggers so I didn't go- I was afraid someone would try to knock me over in their rush to get to the yarn. Also the LYS is near Leisure World , a huge retirement community so there are always little old ladies with their walkers and canes running into you. Though I heard tell of one of the aforementioned little old ladies who uses her walker as a ruse....she doesn't really need it and will dive into a bin of yarn if she sees something she likes. Scary stuff!

Anways, I braved the walkers and rabid yarn fiends and came up with some Austermann MicroLana in baby blue, and this stuff:

It's GGH Sombrero. A ribbony yarn with a slightly paper-like feel when you knit with it. I washed the swatch and it's much softer now. I think I might make a summery tank top out of it.