sheep in the city

3•2•1 Sale!

So my favorite knit shop had their 2nd annual 3•2•1 sale this morning where from 6:30 am to 8:00 everything, absolutely everything in the shop is 30% off and then from 8:00 to 10:00am everything is 20% off, and then from then on the whole day, everything is 10% off! Then for the following week they are closed for inventory. You have never seen a knitting shop so filled with women.Here's a glimpse of the inside of the shop, and this doesn't even do it justice as far as how crowded it was, but here's the picture I got from inside. My mom and I got there about 6:20am and we stood in line, in the dark, on the sidewalk with about 60 people in the cold. I'm bummed that none of my pictures of the line came out, but believe me there were tons of people! Then they opened the doors and everyone flooded in. Holy cow...knitters are usually so sweet and kind, but get them around a 30% off sale and their inner-knitting beasts comes out. The needle area was swarmed with people, and so was the Brown Sheep wool wall. I kept thinking that the fire department better not show up because I'm sure that the shop had reached maximum capacity...have you ever seen a maximum occupancy sign in a knitting store? It was crazy!! I did manage to find a couple goodies for a little post Christmas, Merry Christmas to me present...ha! Here's what I got:

•Knitting on the Edge by Nicky Epstein
•Not Just Socks...an interesting looking book with "not just sock patterns" for sock yarn!
•2 skeins of Koigu...mmmm...Koigu, because I always need more of it!
•and a box of knitting note cards with kids patterns on them.
I was actually quite proud of the restraint I showed...sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the chaos and grab too much, but I kept it together!

After the sale, I hung out with my cousin Ruthie. We shopped, bought some yarn for her to make a poncho and went home to knit and watch "13 Going on 30". A great movie to knit by, especially if you grew up in the 80's like I did! Here's Ruthie, what a cutie!