June6
Yes of course this road trip had to do with yarn. Not just any yarn, mind you, but my very favorite sock yarn Hazel Knits Artisan Sock. On Friday, I helped my sister in law move from Seattle, to her new apartment in Lynnwood. Her new apartment is on the third floor so needless to say I’ve been nursing some very sore muscles since then. What does that have to do with yarn you ask. Well the money I earned helping her move was burning a hole in my pocket and I just happened to notice that Wild Fibers in Mount Vernon was having their anniversary sale this weekend. I also just happened to see that Wendee, of Hazel Knits fame, was sending a big shipment of yarn their way, and debuting some brand new colors. Mt Vernon is about 1 1/2 hours from where we live so I asked The Webmaster if he was up for a road trip, and he agreed. So the stars aligned and we hopped in the minivan and started driving. We made the trip without pit stops and got to the store around 4:30.

The Hazel Knits yarn greeted me, front and center, as soon as I walked in the door. The Webmaster, JO, and JY went to get comfortable on the couch, and the boys managed to find some toys to play with. They could have ran out the back door yelling and screaming and I would have never noticed because I was engrossed in this…

And this…

I managed to capture a close up of Serenity, one of the new colors. Its the light blue in the middle of the photo.

Here is a shot of Cherry Fizz, which is another new color. Cherry Fizz is the pink one surrounded by it’s friends Daphne on the left and Fireberry on the right

I managed to bring home 5 lovelies bought with my blood, sweat, and tears. OK…take out the blood and tears and keep the sweat and add some sore muscles. First we have Chocoberry, which I wanted based on the preview photos from the Hazel Knits web site.

Then there a was a rogue gray that just jumped into my hot little hands.

Next up, Blueberry, which I had to have after seeing that it was a blue leaning towards purple with pinkish tones underneath.

Splish Splash just jumped right out at me from the bottom row as I was taking another walk around the display. (I couldn’t get this one to photograph properly so I to mess around with the color on picnic)

Last, but certainly not least and the most surprising of all was Coveralls. I saw this one on the HK website and was meeehhh about it, but in person it’s the most perfect blueish gray with so much depth of color.

After I got back into the land of the living (or maybe the yarn fumes were wearing off) I paid for my yarn, and got the heck out of there. Well I did use the little girls room, but I left The Webmaster to guard my lovelies. The Webmaster saw a used book store across the street as we were leaving. We decided to go check it out, and lo and behold JO and JY found a couple things they wanted. Ooohhhh JO saw sea creatures.

JY spotted some trains.

We brushed the dust of Mount Vernon off our heels, and just to make the trip “worthwhile” we stopped in Lynnwood to see Aunt Jer. She has a cool playground in her new apartment complex.

The Webmaster even got in on the fun.

What a fun day, and I know I went home with this kind of smile on my face. Yes I looked just as goofy too.
