DC Day Tripping
At the moment I’m on a boltbus on my way back from visiting a friend down in DC no idea where I am right now but we just went through a tunnel. So of course we ended up in a yarn store. Stitch D.C. in fact. I actually went because I wanted to get size 2 bamboo circulars so I could attempt Anthemion again after seeing a completed one live in person from another friend who had completed it and thought some of the difficulty may have been my metal circs.
We were up until well past 3am chatting and catching up, so we didn’t have a high hopes on getting a lot of sight seeing done. She’s only been in town a week and neither one of us had a car. We did end up at the National Portrait Gallery where I was distracted by this painting.
My friend despite being a fellow knitter laughed at me. But socks! Or possibly gloves but really its DPNs!
So I have ended the yarn drought. I bought 2 skeins of 50% Wool 5o% silk, they are being put aside for the pantheon project, because they make me think of Poseidon and Hephaestus and I’ve been keeping an eye out for yarns that make me think of any of the things that make me think of the gods. I have plans to re-read my copy of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology to get some ideas for the rest of the twelves.
Also purchased were some buttons. I had wanted to take part in the Tilting Tardis Cowl knit along over at the Who Knits group on Ravelry but I didn’t have any buttons, I found these glass recycled ones and thought they would be perfect.
I also picked up some red buttons because despite not being one of the 12 Persephone was another member of the Greek Pantheon that I had ideas for.
