Blanket supplies and miniskein madness

I imagine you are wondering "but where is all the yarn for this sock yarn blanket coming from". Let me take you on a trip down blanket memory lane. When I started knitting this someone on Ravelry organised a thing where they bought every colour of Bendigo Luxury and then sent each of us a sample of each colour. It was when Luxury was new - I've been working on it for that long! Early on I dyed some mini-skeins. And then I knit with a lot of four ply. I recently did a sock yarn swap on Ravelry - really fun, but the postage was ridiculous. Last week Jane from Richmond knitters organised a Regia swap and I got mine just the other night - look how pretty:

Then I was looking at the new part of the blanket, and I panicked because it looks a lot darker than the original, so I asked Kris and Katie if maybe they have some light coloured left overs. Now, I know my friends always come through for me, but Kris took it to the next level: She gave me a ziplock of left over small balls, which was exactly what I was hoping for:

And these, which are not mini skeins, they are full sized skeins of JL Salvia yarn. Leon insists they are mini skeins, they just look big because Kris and I are "so tiny", but he's wrong.

Katie's mini skeins are coming next week, in exchange for some ginger (I'll explain that next week). I'll might use some of the yarn for socks for my mother, and maybe some sneaker liners for me, and the left overs for the blanket. So I have a lot to be going on with, and I'm certainly not going to run out of yarn. I also (as usual) feel both lucky and well loved by my friends.

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