Wollmeise Is Mine!!!

I have not mentioned this yet, but I am a huge, dorky yarn stalker. But it finally paid off. I got two skeins of Wollmeise this morning! Now, if you don't know what, or who, Wollmeise is allow me to explain. The Wollmeise is a yarn dyer in Germany, she is just one person and she usually updates her site on Fridays, which is usually very early in the morning here. She makes beautiful yarn (either look around her website or look here, I suggest clicking on any of those pictures and going through the slide show). I heard about her while listening to the Knitters Uncensored podcast, and if you are like me, when you see the pictures of her yarn you will see why I was instantly obsessed with it. The yarn is wildly popular with the people who know about it, and when she does update her site, the yarn is usually gone in less than an hour. Just to prove my dorkiness, the last update was on August 8th, and I set the alarm on my phone for every hour, starting at one in the morning. When I woke up at 3, the yarn was gone, and the site was updated at 2:30. I am so beyond excited. I cannot wait to get the yarn and take pictures of it and pet it. (By the way, if you look at that Flickr group slideshow, keep in mind that each skein averages out to a little over $20, so when you see those huge piles of yarn, try to add up the amount of money people are spending on this yarn.)

Okay, I need to get these out of the way:

This is the treat bag for dog training class. the training is working, by the way, it is so cute to see her start to understand things. Especially stay, which has been really hard for her. But she is really good, she just sits there and stares so intensely at the hand the treats are in and wags her tail the entire time.




Also,

Sorry for the terrible picture, the camera battery was about to die and it did not want to focus. These socks are called Crazy Monkeys. The non-crazy Monkeys (at least you can see what they look like better there) are knit from the cuff down, but the Crazy Monkeys are toe-up. Other than that, they look the same.

That's it for now, except that I would like to say that sushi is really good (and that is in no way a dirty joke about Michael Phelps[see my last post], I promise).