Purlescence Yarns opened today!

Here’s the storefront with the ribbon before the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

 Here is the sign on top of the building (which just showed up very recently). I live mere blocks from this store, so I walked there once last week with Siena and Lilla when the bookcases were shelveless and yarnless.

Then Kristi and I stopped by there on Wednesday for a few minutes before spinning and helped put price stickers on yarn (the sign still wasn’t there then). Cookie has some great pictures from that night. It’s been fun to see the progress.

You can also see delicious yarn pictures on the store’s blog. I’m sure they’ll post about the grand opening sometime soon (and I should be in a picture or 2).

Here’s a close-up of the ribbon before cutting.

Here’s the actual ribbon cutting.
 
And this is the very delicious Blue Moon Socks that Rock that is now mine. I had to have the strongest willpower ever to resist buying more yarn.

But patience will pay off as I got a free magnet and a coupon to come back next month for $10 off a $50 purchase!
 

The colorway is
Puck’s Mischief.
 

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I officially joined Soctoberfest!

I have 6 goals for Socktoberfest:

1) Finish Dad’s socks and mail them in time for his birthday. Progress: Done!
 

They’ve even been happily received!
 
Yarn: Knit Picks Parade
Color: Checkers
Pattern: 2×2 ribbed socks modified from Cat Bordhi’s Socks Soar on 2 Circs book
Needles: US 2
 
2) Finish Mom’s socks by the end of the month (her birthday is next month).
  
Progress: One sock done! Second sock has opposite spiral pattern (harder than you would think) and I just started the gusset.
Yarn: Knit Picks Sock Memories
Color: Gladiolus
Pattern: RPM from Knitty
Needles: US 2
 
It looks so different inside out that I had to take a picture.

3) Finish my second RPM sock in STR
Progress: Well, the first one’s done, right?

4) Spin enough sock yarn to knit a pair of socks (this is by far the hardest goal)
Progress: I bought a spinning wheel! And I’m practicing… (and I’ve bought fiber!)

5) Finish up my nephew’s baby booties and mail them off to him. Not quite socks, but pretty close.
Progress: I’m done knitting and felting and making one pom pom. I just need to re-make the eyelet holes, thread the ties through, make 3 more pom poms, and attach 4 pom poms to the ends of the ties.

6) Another coworker of mine is having a baby at the end of this month, so I’ll be knitting another pair of baby socks…
Progress: Haven’t even decided what yarn to use!

 
Lastly this month (nothing to do with Socktoberfest) I plan on sewing the zipper into my Rowan Plaid short-sleeved cardigan. The sweater has been blocked, so all I have to do is pin and sew. I’m really not into basting.
 
Here’s a (not so great) detail of the top front where the zipper is going to go — you can kind of see the lace and cable pattern.

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Mojo is 10 weeks old. The other day he snuggled up with Siena on the couch and she let him! This is quite remarkable considering how many times she has growled and snarled at him when he gets too close to her.
 This is about as close as they usually get. Note the rubber chicken in the background. I think those things are both Siena and Mojo’s favorite toys. There’s a hula hoop too. Randall was trying to get Siena to jump through the hoop last week…

(Added later: rubber chicken pictures!)
 

 Isn’t Mojo cute!?! At 10 weeks he weighed 11 pounds. At 9 1/2 weeks (4 days earlier) he weighed 9 pounds. I’m going to chart his growth progress. Randall suggested that each week I project what I think he will weigh the following week, at one year (ok, I added this one because it’s sooner to measure than the next one), and as an adult. Additionally I shall predict what kinds of dog I think Mojo is, and what colors I think he’ll be as an adult.

 Ok, so I think next week, at 11 weeks, he will weigh 14 pounds. At one year, he will weigh 75 pounds, and as an adult he will weigh 90-95 pounds. Previous to this week I thought he was a Yellow Lab/Rottweiler mix. The picture to the left was taken on Thursday.
 The picture to the left was taken today (Saturday).
It seems EVERY DAY he gets more black hair along his spine, so now I think he’s a Rottweiler/German Shepherd/Yellow Lab mix. I think he’ll keep the white on his chest and tips of 3 paws, keep the tan on his head, and have a darker back and tail with some tan but mostly black.

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