I confess. I went shopping for more yarn online and I put yarn in my cart, and I finished checking out.
Some people would offer mitigating circumstances – there was an ad on Ravelry, they were looking for yarn to finish a project in progress, somebody talked them into it, in short, it was an accident.
I have no defense. I had every opportunity to avoid this. Trouble started when I purchased my first skein of Hedgehog Fibres sock yarn in Amsterdam and had them wind it for me. Socks were started before I reached home, and I have loved them. The color is great multiple washes later, I can wear them on transoceanic trips and they don’t smell a bit when I get in. They are great and I wanted more.
So I started looking around. I started by identifying a shop in Berlin that supposedly had it. They did, but not in colors I liked. I totally could have, should have, stopped there.
Nope, I went online again. I checked the main website – all sold out. So I checked their retailer lists, looking at over at least half a dozen websites in the country until I found one with a wide variety of colors.
I set up an account so I could make a wish list and plan my targets contemplate the best choices.
Then I did something really shameful. I pulled in innocents. A family member recently subtly hinted* that they would like socks, so I sent them a link to the site and asked what color they liked best, to give a plausible reason to my purchase. But I know what I was really doing.
There was nothing accidental about this. No mitigating factors. Totally guilty.
Aren’t they pretty though?
Colors clockwise from upper left: Dragonfly, Pod, Pheasant, Vengeance, center is Raku
*subtle in my family goes something like this “Your husband’s socks look great. My birthday is coming up in the spring.”