A Resolution I'll Never Keep!

We've been home for a week and a busy week it has been!  Unpacking from six weeks at the Coastal Condo, sorting through six weeks (three tubs) of mail, getting back to work at Ann's By Design, fearlessly knitting and trying to unpack from the flood.  My real world has definitely interfered with my "Love Story" this week.  One of the things that has been great has been daily texting with my new knitting buddies Jane and Viv on all things knitting.  They are both taking a class at Knit 'N Purl on the Spice Market scarf.  I've had that pattern and yarn for years but have never got around to pulling it out of the queue.  Maybe Viv and Jane are just the inspiration I need.

This does have me rather intrigued.  It has been so much fun.  The three of us share tips, encourage each other and just talk everything knitting.  Now I have a knitting buddy I text with in Washington (Linda), another in Atlanta (Kathy) and two in the Myrtle Beach area (Jane and Viv.)  Come April, Viv will be back in Ohio so that will be another place on the map.  Right now my Adrian knitting buddy Thea is in Fort Collins, so that is yet another place!  Is it any wonder I didn't get to Knitting: A Love Story this week!?!?!

When we came home to three tubs of mail, there were several yarn orders.  I can't say the number because it scares me.  I will show you the loveliness.

This was waiting for me from Kitterly and will make this. . . 

I think it will be over the top beautiful but then that is what I think of all of my purchases.  

I got these three from Earthfaire.  She is the best.  I actually ordered them while we were at the Coast Condo but she held them until February so they wouldn't either be sitting on our door step or in the post office.  Earthfaire has always had the best customer service.  This isn't the first time she's done something out of the ordinary for me.  When Dick had his heart surgery, I was looking for a specific knitting book to take to the hospital.  She ordered it just for me.  I love her!

This is what the bottom yarn will become.  Isn't it, well, FAN-TASTIC!

​I think when I work at Ann's By Design I should only be knitting on yarn from ABD.  I didn't have anything on the needles, had a pattern I wanted to try, so I bought this. . .

to make this. . . 

I'm using the two Encore colors and maybe some day I get around to using the other two yarns to make a second Twined Flowers.

​If you remember what I brought home from the Coastal Condo, you might understand my shock and awe when I realized just how much my stash had grown over the past eight weeks.  My immediate thought was, "I'm not going to buy any more yarn this year, or maybe for six month."  We both know that isn't going to happen.  That is one resolution I will never keep.