Shopping in Fibre Space

Sometimes I just need a little retail therapy.

This time I found it at Fibre Space. I so love shopping there. They have so many things that I want. So many great colors, and yarns, and needles, and markers, and bags, and projects, and... well, you get the idea.

I think I overfilled my reusable tote. Not that it matters. I even managed to score this super-fun tote bag.

I picked up more notions. I can always use another needle gauge. I picked up another size 4 circular. This is my favorite needle for knitting shawls. I may need to knit more than one shawl at a time, so I need another needle. I may need another bag, too.

And yarn. This is Yummy 2-ply fingering from Miss Babs. I so love this yarn for shawls. These colors look overly dark in this photo. They really are rather striking in person. These are my selections for a Color Affection shawl. I've been thinking about knitting one up since Sheep & Wool last year. It's time to stop thinking and cast on.

Dancing Leaf Farm: Sock Hop

During the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival I did some shopping. I'm going to highlight each of the vendors in a post. Check out these small business people and their wonderful wares.

This was another colorway chosen specifically for the name on the band. This is Severus Snape from Dancing Leaf Farms. Sock Hop should make up into another yummy shawl. You should totally go check out the amazing colors that Dancing Leaf makes up. Great stuff. I've bought from them three years in a row now and I have never been disappointed with their yarns.

I love fun colorways.

Both of these hanks are the same colorway, they just have different intensities and I selected them because of this.

Cosmic Tempting Ewe

During the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival I did some shopping. I'm going to highlight each of the vendors in a post. Check out these small business people and their wonderful wares.

After my most wonderful Dotted Rays Shawl made with two skeins of Tempting Ewe I had to have more. I stopped by Cloverhill Yarn to buy some more of their beautifully dyed yarns.

This time my decision was almost made for me. Look at the colorway name. How could I leave that behind! That's right, a cosmic colorway named after my very own personal astrophysicist. How awesome is that?

I'm still trying to decide on a shawl pattern for this yarn, too. So much yarn, so little time.

Fiber Optic Yarns

During the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival I did some shopping. I'm going to highlight each of the vendors in a post. Check out these small business people and their wonderful wares.

First up is Fiber Optic Yarns by Kimber Baldwin Designs. I could not resist a Paintbox Gradient in Foot Notes Yarn. I love gradients, ombres and long-stripe yarns. I just can't get enough. This is one of the reasons I will be trying to dye some of my own.

I also picked up a coordinating skein of Foot Notes. I have no idea what I'm going to do with this. I think I see a shawl in this box. I just need to find the right pattern that will let the yarn shine.

Do you have a favorite small business? More importantly, do you have a favorite shawl pattern I should check out for this yarn?