Dawn Brocco's Life and Design Blog

When hubby and I have things to do/things to get, it doesn't always go smoothly. Especially when it comes to shopping. But yesterday had no shopping in it, so it looked promising.

The bank business we had to tend to took all of 40 minutes - sign, sign, sign, sign, out!

The DMV line for learners' permits/non-driver ID's (that's me!) had only one teenager ahead of me. The gov't worker was actually nice, which helped me be less nervous, though I'm not sure where I was looking when she snapped the photo! I'll see in 2 weeks. And I'm glad I brought my marriage certificate, just to be on the safe side, as it turns out I needed it to prove my married name. That's me - prepared for anything!

And Staples was a breeze. But I don't count that as shopping - finding clothing and shoes is our bane.

I was contacted by a yarn spinner (large company, not handspinner!) - just one of those emails you get when your website comes up in lots of searches. But they're legitimate and have nice fibers and yarns, especially the yarn I love - Bluefaced Leicester.

And they dye to customer's order. Oooh!

I didn't stop buying and dyeing that beautiful cashmere yarn because I didn't like it any more - yeah right! - I'd have to have a hole in my head to think that! But it was pricey - too pricey for most people, understandably. OK enough a luxury expense for some small accessories, but forget a sweater's worth.

But the BFL is soft enough to wear next to the skin, has a wonderful sheen, like moonlight, and is oh so much less costly than cashmere.

So I'm giving in to getting his color card and yarn samples, so I can swatch for gauge. If it can get the same gauge that lovely cashmere got, WELL, it's gonna be hard to hold myself back.

One DOES need to order 10 lbs of each color, so IF I did decide to import this yummy stuff, I would begin with just natural and 1 or 2 colors in one weight of yarn, or just natural in 2-3 weights of yarn, and hopefully, work up to more colors and weights from there, if there's demand.

I thought about dyeing it myself, as I did the cashmere, but it makes for a more expensive yarn, and I really prefer a perfectly solid-dyed yarn, not the lightly-striated semi-solids that hand-dyeing produces.

So, I'm thinking about it. I probably shouldn't be thinking about it, butcha know how hard it is to resist a near perfect yarn!

Labels: BFL, non-driver ID