Phildar Phrom Phrance
Sorry about the bad alliterations. I just can't help myself when it comes to showing off this box of goodies that arrived this week from Lyon:
Phil Eponge in Camelia, Wonderful Linen Yarn from Russia and Phil'Onde in Jeans and Ciel
How can I not be happy when I get a stash update like that? Yumyumyum! The Phil'Eponge is for me so that I can make this sweater. The Phil'Onde is for both me and my mom. I'm going to make this for my sweetie and mom is going to make the sweater on the right for herself. (Just in case you are concerned, the Phil'Onde Ciel is not quite so baby blue as it comes out in the picture, the color is much closer to the snapshot below). The beautiful natural yarn in the middle of the picture is a very special gift from a woman that I work with. She just travelled to Russia on vacation. It is a 100% pure and beautiful laceweight linen yarn. And it smells absolutely delicious. It's much softer than you might imagine. I'm not sure what it will become yet. I don't know if there is enough for a tank top if I use it doubled. But there might be enough for a lacy scarf. It's certainly going to be a lovely summer treat.
I thought some closeups were in order of the Phil'Eponge and the Phil'Onde.
Phil'Eponge and Phil'Onde Up Close
The Phil'Eponge is a *very* neat yarn. It reminds me a bit of a much finer, boucle version of Cascade Fixation. It's soft and very springy to the touch. The color in the picture is a bit more intense than in real life. After Audrey, this stuff will be next up!
I've already said a lot about Phil'Onde, so this shot is just to show off how sophisticated the Jeans and Ciel colorways are. It's going to be all I can do not to start playing with the stuff.
In relatively few hours I will be on a jet plane to San Francisco. Art Fibers is, of course, on my list, as is a long visit with a good friend who I haven't seen in ages. I won't be meeting up with any other bloggers just because I'm not sure a knitting festival would be all that fun for the sweet guy I am flying out to spend the weekend with. We're flying back home on Monday, so I don't have as much time there as I would like.
Happy Memorial Day Weekend Everyone!
Fab new yarn !
Have a great weekend.
x
Theresa - if you check your blog on vacation here's a note: Stop by ImagiKnits in the Mission/Castro area - wonderful shop and great neighborhood for walking around - great tea shop for iced tea and sandwiches and desserts catty-corner from shop called Samovar. So glad you posted the jeans colorway - I've been thinking and thinking about making a sweater in that color since you first posted about the Onde! Have a great weekend.
I was just about to mention Imagiknit. It's a beautiful store with great staff (though if you're trying to limit the fiberyness I'd make sure to hit Art Fibers ahead of Imagiknit because it's so unique). And I totally understand why you're not looking up all the Bay Area bloggers, but if I serendipitously run into you on the street in SF I'm going to stop you to introduce myself anyway!
I was just in SF a few weeks ago, and found Art Fiber by mistake - that place is FABU! I had to control myself to not buy one of everything, and how cool that they will print a pattern to the gauge you buy. Have fun there!
Woo hoo! Your local post office loves you, because you get my packages in record time. Oh, yeah!
P.S. Are you back from your weekend yet? Let us know how it went!
Gorgeous new yarn! Hope you had a great trip :)
Hope you had a fun trip! I've been very interested in the Phil'eponge myself, so I can't wait to hear all about your adventures with it!!