Today was seriously an excellent mail-day…

Three packages worth of goodies!

The first package came from The Loopy Ewe.  I managed to get some Yarn Pirate merino/tencel sock yarn.  The color is called “Daisy” and I absolutely love it.  I also ordered a big stack of patterns in preparation for Summer of Socks ‘08.  I got a bunch of Wendy Knits patterns: Twisted Logic, Costa, Alana, and and St. Louis.  I also got the Flambeau by Terry Ross and Lace-agon by Monica Jines.  All those patterns should keep me busy for a while.

The second package contained three new yummy fibers from CJ Kopec Creations.  The red is called “Secrets” and is a blend of merino, colonial and bamboo.  The blue is 100% merino.  The natural chocolate brown is… alpaca.  (*SQUEE*)  I’m excited to spin these up.  I’ve never spun alpaca, nor have I spun anything blended with bamboo.  So this should be fun.  I think the merino will make for pretty sock yarn, and it will match denim jeans really well!

The last package was from Blue Moon Fiber Arts.  I got my very first skein of Socks that Rock yarn, which I’m so excited to knit up.  I got the STR Lightweight in the Pond Scum colorway.

I also ordered one of their sock monkey knitting kits.  It came in a cute package that puts me in mind of a time-capsule!  The two yarn colors in my kit are “Typhoon Tina” and “Harlotty”.  I’d love to start one of these right away, but I have far too many projects on the needles already.  If anyone else is kniting these at the moment, be sure to check out the knit-along going on over at the Yarn Harlot Fans group on Ravelry!

*AHEM*  Guess I have more than enough yarn, roving, and knitting projects in general to keep me busy for a long, long time.  It wasn’t that long ago that I was a beginning knitter and “stash” was a completely foreign concept to me.  Heh, that didn’t last for long…