kataish

How dealing yarn is like dealing crack.

Monday, April 12th, 2010 | blah blah blah, stash acquisition, yarn, yarn snobbery | 4 Comments

Hi, My name is Stacy and I have an addiction. It’s been getting progressively worse over the past few years, but I feel like I have fallen off the wagon hard this time.

My drug of choice? Wollmeise.

I haven’t quite achieved snob status just yet. I mean, come on, I haven’t even knit with the stuff yet! But I see it coming…oh yes, it’s coming…

I have to say I have enablers…those little devil’s on my shoulder pushing me in one direction or another. This one’s name is kataish.

First let me say, this girl is amazing. She can knit and draw and is generally an all-around craft goddess. She is also my biggest crack dealer.

Last week I decided to put the call out on Twitter asking where she scores her Wollmeise. Now, for those of you out there still into acrylic, or maybe those of you that don’t knit or cro (GASPS), Wollmeise is a highly coveted yarn. I know of two places that sell it, The Wollmeise website (in Germany) and The Loopy Ewe. I also know that the chances of scoring said yarn on those sites is pretty darn low. Unless you are one hell of a sniper up at insane o’clock, you probably won’t get any.

So, I put the call out and Kata responds. She says she will PM me on Ravelry. So I sign in and I wait….and wait….and wait. Surely it couldn’t take that long to shoot me a PM? Then it comes…what is now the longest personal message I have received on Ravelry to date. She goes into your standard methods of getting the stuff. Waiting for updates, sniping…ya know, the usual. Then I see this:

“Now, onto the ways you can REALISTICALLY score WM ;)”

She launches into how you can get it from other people. Swaps, trades, commission knitting…oh my! My head was spinning. Now, I know I have WAY TOO MANY projects right now. How the heck could I knit anything for trade? I barely have the time to do everything I am doing now (luckily I don’t sleep much and it helps that I know how to walk and knit at the same time).

So I told her what I was looking for and she hooked me up with a friend that worked out a deal for me. Nice right? See…it’s all about who you know.

Woohoo! Its much prettier that my crappy phone camera akkows it to be.

Woohoo! It's much prettier that my crappy phone camera allows it to be.

And just think, After I am done with whatever project I decide to use this for, I can use the scraps in my Insanity Blanket. Bonus!

Tags: kataish, Wollmeise

Happy Birthday to me!

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | blah blah blah, fiber, spinning, yarn | No Comments

What the hell kind of yarnie am I? I am leaving for Stitches bright and early in the morning and I am still not done packing. To be honest, I have been quite the fly by the seat of my pants kinda girl as of late. I think I am overcompensating for what I know is coming. An inevitable freakout followed by a spending spree of epic proportions. I mean, I did go on a yarn diet for months to save money for this event. I am going all out….but only once I get there. In the meantime….a couple of items thrown in a travel bag are gonna have to get me through the weekend.

And since I last spoke out here I have been busy. I turned 34 and spent an entire weekend celebrating. What does that have to do with yarnie goodness? Presents, of course!! I have friends that are into fiber too and some are real talented. I got an especially cool present from my friend Wendy at work…

Hand dyed fiber!!

She is an Etsy seller too! You can find her at filmstrlet.etsy.com.

I also decided to get the Phat Fiber Box this month because my friend Katahad participated. I didn’t get anything she contributed in my package, but it was full of all kinds of goodies! Yay, Happy Birthday to me!