Buffalo Knitters Guild Auction 2009
I have finished the last of my projects for my Montessori Training. I will be observed teaching tomorrow. We will do a material making session this Saturday to make the phonogram wall chart and then I have class on the 5th and 6th and I will be done. It seems a little unreal to not have giant assignments to be finishing.
I missed several meetings of the Knitters Guild this yeardue to the pressure of school work but I did attend the auction. It is always a fun night.
I brign cash and carefully plan out what I am going to bid on and my top for bidding on each item of interest. This year I came home with more books than yarn but here is my haul this year.
From the little store that was set up I purchaed this used copy of Wendy Knits. I read Wendy's blog.
I also bought a size 8 circ needle and some copper colored mylar ribbon for either plying or cutting up and carding in to wool for spinning. I think it is going to look spectacular plyed with some of the chocolate brown llama I have from Glenn Jackson.
and I must have been in a cable kinda mood because I got these in the auction:
The Best of Knitters Magazine Arans and Celtics.
and
These 2 boosk were packaged together and I got them for less than $15.
Knitting the New Classics is by Kristin Nicolas. It contains patterns for 60 sweaters and mostly they have cables or colorwork. There are sweaters for men as well as women but none for children. The sweaters are all knit with Classic Elite yarns.
I won my bids on 2 lots that the catalog said were kitted up with yarn and patterns. Unfortuneately that patterns was only included with this one:
This is Sirdar pattern number 1659 Tufty. There were several lots in the auction with the pattern adn the yarn kitted up to make different sized sweaters. This one I won is for sizes 1-2 years.
The yarn Tufty does not state what the fiber is on the ball band but it appears to be a cotton with a synthetic fiber as an eyelash. The kit includes 6 balls of yarn.
I also won this:
This mixed lot of yarns includes a set of bag handles and the catalog said there was a pattern included, unfortunately there was not pattern, but never fear I am sure I will find things to do with the yarn. It includes Navy Brown Sheep Bulky Spun, 2 balls of Freedom Wool, a bulk from Twilley's of Stamford, 1 ball of a rust colored Lite Lopi form Reynolds, a multi colored metallic novelty yarn, Cleo from Muench yarn and a varigated blues novelty called Spruce from Trendsetters Yarn.
If you know of a bag pattern that might incorporate these yarns, please let me know. Thanks.
That's it for this year's auction. I have found I have become much pickier about what I bid on at the auction.
A couple of observations from the auctions. The bidding was slower and lower this year and there were fewer lots with natural fibers.