It's here!! The first shipment for the StitchDC Stash Club is here! It arrived today, as I'd been hoping it would ever since I heard that Marie was printing out labels on Thursday and shipping on Friday. (According to the lady I spoke with at the Capitol Hill store, Stash Club-related chaos has kept Marie very busy since the announcement for the club initially went out.)
The package consists of two skeins of yarn and a pattern (with introduction to the Stash Club), stuffed into the clear shopping bag emblazoned with the gold StitchDC.
According to the intro, there are over 150 members in the Stash Club, and there will be "hand-dyed yarns from as close as Maryland and Virginia and as far as Australia. We are buying wool from an entire herd in Pennsylvania." Now how cool is that? :o)
Moving on... The pattern, called La Dolce Vita Glove #203 (design by Justine Moody, reprinted by permission of Tilli Tomas), is for a pair of ruffled fingerless gloves. I reserve judgment on the ruffly bits, but fingerless gloves seem to be all the rage these days.
The yarn, too, comes from Tilli Tomas: 1 skein of Mogul (100% Australian Merino wool with glass beads, 80 yds/ 100 g) and 1 skein of Aspen (100% Australian Merino wool, 130 yds/ 50 g), both in color Parchment, a dark beige-y shade. The color reminds me of cafe latte or perhaps of coffee diluted with plenty of cream. Or maybe of old, aged sheets of parchment, an image evoked by the very name of the color.
I'm not entirely excited by the color, but I am thrilled by the prospect of finally working with some Tilli Tomas yarn!
Now I just have to decide which project to lug to Charleston - the Stash Club fingerless gloves, the Woolwinders cabled bag, or the Alpaca Silk cowl neck scarf. Hmm... Decisions decisions!
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