So after arriving in Jackson, WY, where it was 2°C, Sarah decided she needed a hat to keep her head warm. We poked around in a few stores without luck, then we ran into this place: Knit on Pearl (It's on Pearl St.) What a clever little name...It took me til I think Kansas City (maybe?) to finish it, but her hat came out really beautiful, and the yarn was so nice to knit with, the hand was so so soft. Sarah picked out a beautiful yarn for her hat: Plymouth's Baby Alpaca Grande in a pretty soft rose color. It came with a free pattern for a cable hat with earflaps. Although I finished the hat, Sarah wanted braids coming down off the earflaps, but I was JUST short on the yarn (probably my own fault, I snipped a few strands a bit short.)
We ended up stopping at another little yarn shop in Columbia, Missouri: Hillcreek Yarn Shoppe. The ladies here were INCREDIBLY helpful. They didn't carry the same Baby Alpaca Grande color, but they called all the stores in the area for me, (Unfortunately nobody had that color) and then helped Sarah and I pick out a new hat project for the rest of the trip. Here's me knitting the hat in our hotel. It was a much bigger yarn: Brown Sheep Company's Burley Spun in Mountain Majesty: a variegated yarn in navy and sky blues, black, purple, and magenta.
The hat I made from this yarn also has 
earflaps and braids.
Here's me knitting it in our hotel, and the project up close:
1 comment:
less knitting, more politico!
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