Some Yarn Shopping, Knitting Plans, and Reading On

Hello Friends,

On Saturday I went shopping with my sister at Romni Wools in Toronto. There were so many gorgeous skeins of yarn to choose from. I ended up buying two skeins of yarn. They were the two that caught my eye right away and I recalled from my last visit there that if yarn speaks to me or I love the colors, to just carry it around with me because I am likely to go back and search for them later. Of course I ended up buying both after I carried them around for awhile.

Fleece Artist and Juniper Moon Farm yarn

The first yarn skein I will tell you about is by Fleece Artist in the colorway Blue Face Leichester. It is mostly beige in color with pops of purple and gray. I tend to be drawn to yarns like this at Romni. Last time I bought Manos Del Uruguay Allegria yarn in the colorway 'Happy' because I fell for the white yarn with spots of vibrant colors.

Fleece Artist Blue Face Leichester

The second skein I bought was by Juniper Moon Farm Cumulus Dappled in the colorway 'On the Rocks'. It is a super soft yarn and I had ideas of knitting a really soft and comfy cowl with it. I love the color of blue and that it is both blue and white and I am looking forward to seeing how it looks in a project.

Juniper Moon Farm Cumulus Dappled  'On the Rocks'

For the Juniper Moon Farm yarn I am thinking of making a cowl and for the Fleece Artist yarn I am thinking of making a hat. I will be looking up patterns which suit the yarn soon. I also recently purchased some yarn from Michaels to start knitting a gift for my mom. She asked me to knit her some fingerless mittens which I will share with you once I am finished them after Christmas. The fingerless mitts are such fun projects to knit up and I am glad to get another chance to make some as a gift. I will also be working on sewing the seams of the Wool and the Gang Farrah Billie Jean top I knitting the pieces for in the Summer.

In reading, I have finished reading Suprise Me by Sophie Kinsella. For some reason I couldn't really get too interested in reading this book. It did not grab me from the start and I thought that my interest in the book might change as time went on but it just didn't. I think it is a nice, light read and funny at times, but I was hoping for a bit more out of it and it delve more into fun little things about marriage and how they had fun together trying to make their marriage work but it was mostly just the protagonist wondering what her husband was up to and being suspicious which was kind of negative. I am really looking forward to reading Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis. I received it for my birthday in October and have been excited to start reading it!

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Visit to Romni Wools Yarn Store in Toronto

Hello Friends,

I hope you're doing well. Yesterday my sister and I went to Romni Wools yarn store in Toronto, Ontario. We walked down Queen Street  for quite awhile and stopping in some gift shops along the way and Crate and Barrel where they had an adorable dog photo shoot to promote their dog line. The dogs were all waiting in line patiently with their owners to get their photos taken on a chair in the corner beside a Christmas tree. Then we made our way to Romni Wools and were pleasantly surprised by how a wide selection and variety of yarn they have.

Looking through the yarn 

We had to wander around a few times through the whole store before I could decide on which yarn to buy. There is a front area and back area with a lot of rows of shelves and then there is an area in the basement with even more yarn.

There was a whole corner of sock yarn, but I did not end up buying any sock yarn this time around because I recently bought the alpaca sock yarn that I still need to use. I will definitely make my way back to Romni again to buy some.

Sock knitting heaven

So much beautiful yarn in one place 

 We finally left after spending probably close to an hour looking through all the beautiful yarn.

The outside sign

My sister really stocked up and bought a lot of yarn for various projects and I bought a couple of skeins. I bought some black chunky yarn by Galway and some speckled yarn in the colorway "happy" and brand Allegria Grande. The Galway yarn is for a Christmas gift and the speckled 'happy' yarn might become some mittens.

Allegria Grande "happy". The colors make me happy

Galway chunky black yarn

It was such a fun day going downtown with my sister and shopping together at Romni Wools and some other gift shops. I am so glad we both love to make with yarn, she crochets and I knit. It is so nice to share this passion with someone close to me and be able to get excited over yarn together. After we left Romni Wools, we ended up at TOMA Burger and we both tried their new vegan burger with some fries and a pint of beer. It was a successful day of yarn shopping and a nice finish to the day by having a delicious meal.

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