On Saturday I noticed that Michael's was having a 30% off sale on ALL their yarn ... and it ended *on* Saturday.  Ack!  I high-tailed it over there, not really sure what I was going to pick up.

I like ruminating for months over what I want to do.  Seriously.  Then, once I work it all out in my head, I'll follow through.  Well, I knew I wanted to make the Icelandic Turtleneck from Crochet Me, but I hadn't quite figured out what yarn I wanted to use.

I swear ... I spent about an hour standing in the yarn section of Michael's just touching yarn.  The same yarn.  Over and over.  I was having a trouble deciding. But my crafting budget is super TIGHT, so, if I was going to get the yarn for a whole sweater, I needed to get it on sale.  

Finally, I decided to get Paton's Grace in viola (it's cotton).  I started the sweater Saturday night and finished the turtle neck.  Sunday I got half the yoke done.  Last night I got all but two rows of the yoke done.  It's going pretty fast.

So far, so good.  I'm 80% sure I'll end up having to alter the pattern to fit me, and I think there is a 25% chance I'll botch the alterations, but I hope it all works out in the end.

Today it was in the 70s!  We took long walk today to enjoy the spring weather.  I got some great lion photos that I'll post later.  I'm 99% sure I passed a fellow crafter on Pine.  If it was *you* ... Hi! :)