We all have our Holy Grail of yarn. For some, it's the elusive Wollmeise; for others, it's the expensive cashmere sweater's worth of stash that they find at a great discount. My particular dream yarn is the Yarntini Self Striping Pure Breeze. It was only distributed through a sock club, and therefor was almost impossible to find.

UNTIL NOW.

I found it. I was stalking Ravelry one morning, saw a post for scads and scads of sock yarns, and I managed to finagle this one for myself (along with some Wollmeise and another skein of Yarntini). The problem: now that I have it, I don't want to knit it. I just want to stash it and know that I've got it there for that elusive day when I DO decide that I want to knit it up. I've got a couple of skeins in my stash that I do the same thing to – I buy them, stash them, and then just savor the fact that I've got them.

I've started a shawl with some yarn that I won through a Swap Partner Contest. Somehow, I managed to win the Most Offensive Swap Gift prize; I'm considering making myself a badge and putting it on the sidebar of my blog, just to assert my bragging rights. I won a skein of Fearless Fibers Superwash Merino Wool Sock Yarn in Sublime, which is a very pretty brown with short, subtle shots of gold and forest green through it. It fits perfectly with the Woodland Shawl that I started with it. Which reminds me, I need to add that to my Works In Progress list. Gah.