What happened was, this friend of mine wanted to get buttons for his coat. And, it was such a nice day out, we thought a fancy lunch (read: not takeout from the place downstairs) would be in order, too. That sounds reasonable, right?
So, I said, “How about we go to Loopy Yarns? They have buttons.”
That is where things got kind of messed up. Because the thing is, even though I already have this Oakland Shawl on the needles:
and, I’m planning a yarn-y/quilt-y event in March that should be keeping me pretty busy (really busy, actually) I couldn’t get it out of my head that it was really important to start Rams & Yowes. So, I bought the yarn. What’s worse, is I bought it in my own made-up colorway. This is going to be interesting:


