My fellow knitters,

I resisted valiantly for 3 months and 3 weeks and my yarn diet is officially over. I decided to reward myself for my self-imposed yarn buying abstinence by buying yarn this Thanksgiving weekend. Can you believe I made it this long?

I had to go to the yarn shop anyway to buy supplies for someone’s Christmas gift, who shall remain nameless because she reads this blog, and so I can’t catalog the yarn or the project in Ravelry because she will see it! But suffice it to say that I think it’s going to be a very cool project, if I can pull it off, that is. hehe!

While I was at the shop, I had the chance to fondle some Colinette Jitterbug, which I hadn’t seen in person before. But it was the ShibuiKnits Sock that really drew me in. I bought two skeins in Peacock, which will make some lovely lace socks. And that’s all I bought, along with the yarn and needles for the gift project. I was worried I would gorge myself and spend hundreds of dollars (because that has happened before, albeit a long time ago), but I tempered myself and only bought what I really wanted.

I need to go do laundry now so I don’t have a photo to show off, but just wanted to post and say that the yarn diet was successful! Originally, I had set a goal of 1 month, and I made it nearly 4 months! I’m proud.