Yarnification

Words cannot describe how much I love this pattern.

I finally forked over the $7 for it yesterday. We’ll see how long it takes me to gather up everything I need to make it. I’ve only been able to find the boning here so far, and they have a $10 minimum order, which means I need to order enough to make two. But I don’t think I’ll order it for a few more weeks yet.

Need to hit Hobby Lobby sometime when I’m in Columbus and figure out what I want to make it with. I don’t know if they carry Berocco (which the pattern calls for, and which looks pretty) but I’m sure they’ll have something I can use. I definitely want something really nice for this project, but the closest LYS I know of is in Pittsburgh. Or Cleveland, I guess, since that’s probably a little bit closer than Pittsburgh. I’ve never found much in Columbus other than the chain stores.

Anyway, since “really nice” probably also equals “pretty expensive” (even though I only need a few balls of yarn) that’ll probably be another few weeks so I don’t kill the budget buying everything at once. Then I start wondering just what sort of yarn I want to make it out of—because by the time I get all this shopping accomplished, spread out enough that we can still, you know, buy food and stuff like that, it’ll be summer and hell, no, I am not making something that I won’t be able to stand to wear until fall.

And I need an afghan hook. Or three, because I can never make gauge in standard crochet with the size hook a pattern calls for and I don’t see that being any different with the Tunisian crochet except that I need to buy different hooks.

Hmm.