More shopping

The other week my mother requested new thrummed slippers, because her's had worn through, and she'd already darned them once. They are knit in chunky yarn, and I started going through my stash in my head - I could hold together three strands of fingering weight, I could... and then I realised, I could buy the right yarn for the project.
So I did. The chuunky yarn on the left, and the fibre for the thrums to the right. So that was fine. While I was on the Knit picks website I saw the felici was on special. I've always wanted to try this self stripping yarn, and resisted, because I have so much sock yarn alread - and so many socks. But I was in a shopping mood, so three balls of that fell into my basket:

 For baby jumpers? sneaker liners? Who knows.

I also bought a skein of sparkle yarn, because I love sparkle yarn. a couplde of my friedns have knititng machines, so I might make a sock blank and dye it, or I might use it for heels in sneaker liners. Or I could make a baby jumper.

I mentioned the other day that I bought a set of Chiaogoo interchangables. The set doesn't have a 3mm needle, and I knew that would irritate me. The needles haven't come yet, but I was on Skein Sisters website, buying the 3mm tips, and some Spin cables 

And I saw they has White Gum sock wool on special, in a colour perfect for Leon. I know that, like the 400 mythical baby jumpers, Leon doesn't need 8 more pairs of socks right now, but it was on special. And it's not navy

So, that's the last of the yarn aquisition for the moment. The chunky Knit Picks is already on the needles, and I hope to have a pair of slippers to show you very soon.