I have been in yarn acquisition mode for a while now. I am part of a yarn club or two, and I have sweaters lined up in a queue waiting for the time to knit. I have every intention to knit what I have up, and I'm working my way through the stash. However, it is always true that it takes longer to knit a sock than it does to put the sock yarn in your online shopping cart (or in store basket) and ring it up.
Yarn is one of my vices, something that makes me feel better about a life that is sometimes 90% dog walking. I am exaggerating, but only just. Today Victor has had 4.8+ miles of walking (1 walk), and I have had an additional 2.4 going to the grocery store and back. It makes sitting down with the yarn even more of a joy and a temptation than normal.
All of this is to say that I am looking for a specific yarn. One of my planned sweaters is Cityscape from the latest Twist Collective. I haven't gotten a chance to work with this yarn, so I was planning on purchasing the actual yarn. However, I want the sweater to be dark. Not a problem, BMFA has shades - the Raven Clan - which I have wanted to try for a while. But I want the sweater to look like a skyline at dusk or sunset (sunrise). So, I have been on the hunt online mostly for a sport weight yarn that is the colors of sunrise/sunset. Orangy, purplish reds, and light yellow. I could probably do this buy using multiple skeins of yarn in all of the different colors, but I want this to feel natural and be as simple a knit as possible. A sunset sweater...
It is my knitterly dream of the moment.
