Hi everybody! Technically, we got back on Sunday night, but between the job, housework and buying gifts for a baby shower (no, I didn't knit them anything and yes, this damns me to knitter hell), I didn't have enough time to go through my hundreds of pictures.

After a little thought I realized it would be blog suicide to post my entire memory card, so for now I will just post the yarn portion. After this snail portion:

Yum.

Meena and I dragged Monkey King to Habu Textiles and School Products for a little stashgasm and I picked up a few lovelies. I just have to say that both of these yarn stores were FREAKING AWESOME. School Products was manned by an extremely nice gentleman who knew all about the products and had the best Russian Used Car Salesman thing going on. "You like yarn, yes? We have much yarn here, all good quality. That's what we do, good yarns...good prices."

I gotta agree with him, this Yak Merino blend is good quality, yes? I bought enough for a sweater. Something with a hood and some cables.

After molesting all the yarn at School Products, we were off to Habu Textiles. Entering Habu was like walking into yarn church. As soon as I saw the fuzzy little yarn cakes, with their golden halos and the yarn monks Gregorian chanting in the background (what?), I had a small fiber spasm. Okay, so I totally stroked out and flailed all over the yarn. Whatever.

I gathered a king's ransom worth of rare, undreamed of  yarn, but then I came to my senses once I remembered that at some point in the future I am going to have to eat. Um, and I don't really need yarn made out of golden silkworm cocoons. Okay, that's a total lie, I do need silkworm cocoon yarn. Or I'll die.

I did come away with some stuff (note: must make a return trip to buy cocoon yarn). I swear, my debit card jumped into my hand and all of a sudden this yarn just...materialized. Out of nowhere. Into a shopping bag.

A little tweedy silk, no label but I think it's this stuff. Perfect for some haute colorwork handwarmers.

And a dash of this guy, some pineapple fiber "yarn." I have no idea what to do with it, maybe a small basket or a bracelet. I just had to have it.

Oh! And here is my progress on Thermal. I'm near the end of my second ball of Gloss. Still loving this pattern.

A picture is worth a thousand stitches.