Yarn goodies

My boyfriend berated me for buying more yarn earlier this week. He thinks I buy too much, I don't. Not a surprise really since I buy yarn at a higher rate than I can knit. But I think it'll make up for the times that I don't buy yarn, and maybe wont be able to buy yarn. And sock yarn isn't stash.

So, I had been to the dentist and since my teeth were good I decided that a little, tiny bit of a reward was appropriate (especially since I could basically see into the yarn shop from my dentist's office). I bought two skeins of Araucania Ranco Solid, one in brown and one in a rusty red/orange. Not my usual colours, but lovely nonetheless.

I'm considering knitting a Catkin from these (which is why I didn't go for the green or blue colours, they wouldn't have gone with any other colours available, and a blue and a different blue isn't what I'm looking for in Catkin) but I might wait until I can get some Madelinetosh Light as that's what the pattern calls for. I'm thinking a blue and grey, or green and cream.

For the Araucania I'm thinking socks. Long lovely socks for Anna.

And that purchase put me over the gift certificate limit of the loyalty program thing the shop has, so soon I'll also have an extra $50 to spend on lovely things.