Happy Local Yarn Store Day!

I've been waiting until today, September 12th, LYS Day, to make this very special announcement.  I've finally made one of my biggest dreams come true, I am working at a yarn store!  It's only one day a week but between Xena and Etsy that's all I can handle.  I started working at Atelier Yarns on Divisadero (between Pine and California) in San Francisco 4 weeks ago and this should come as no surprise, I love it SO much!!!

I bought myself this amazing publication to celebrate.

I also finished knitting my final pair of Scrappy B socks from the #ScrappyHappyPals KAL this morning.  These are all of the socks I knit over the past month or so and I am so happy to see all of them together.

I thought it would be fun to take a few photos of them in the shop.

They looked especially comfy in the Madeline Tosh section since the MC is Tosh Sock yarn.

I was hoping to use all of the colorways my pals sent me from the KAL but I forgot how small my feet were so still I have one color leftover to use in the future.

I have so many different fingering weight yarn scraps, my only real problem was trying to choose which colors to use.

I am extremely pleased with the results.  I am sure that many people might consider these to be some of the ugliest socks they've ever seen but I have and always will shamelessly love ALL THE COLORS.

In other fiber news, I can't believe it but I won the Imagiknit 18 year anniversary IG giveaway (which included a free tote, stitch markers and measuring tape) yesterday!  They, along with Firebird Yarns in the Haight and Atelier (where I now work) are the trifecta of awesome LYS's in SF.  

So in spite of the terrible air and all of the other wack shit happening around the world, it's been a very good week.  I am extremely thankful and happy to be alive and I've even made some decent progress on my crazy granny blanket.

I'm trying to take progress photos after every 5 rounds.

Hopefully I'll have some more colorful updates soon!