I caught the bug.

I believe I've said this before, but I have always prided myself on being immune to the crazy-yarn-acquiring disease many knitters seem to fall prey to. Though a beautiful skien is always able to catch my attention, if I don't have a purpose in mind for it I won't generally buy yarn. Let's be serious, I just don't have enough cash or space to develop a yarn buying problem. My apartment doesn't even have closets!A while ago I gave in to the disease a tiny tiny bit when I purchased this beautiful skien of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock Multi for no reason. I justified the purchase by telling myself I'd knit my roommate some gloves out of it and, since the yardage is pretty great, maybe even something small for myself. That was over six months ago and the yarn is still sitting, unwound, in my yarn basket. I decided that it needed to be a lacy scarf for me (selfish, so shoot me), but kept putting off starting anything until I finished my other projects. I'm now thinking that I want to start the scarf anyway; if I don't start something now I'll never do anything with that yarn. And the more I stare at that skein the more I realize that I have the beginnings of yarnitis.

I fell in love with some MORE yarn I don't need today, but I also fell in love with a pattern that goes with it. So that means my conscience says it's okay to get some! The pattern is Springtime in Philadelphia by Kate Gagnon, and it's available for FREE! The yarn she used, Koigu Mori, has unbeleivable colors. I'm really not usually a fan of variegated color yarns (in fact, I mostly hate them) but I absolutely love the subtleness of these colors and the way the yarn looks in this lace pattern. I'm thinking I may use Koigu KPPM instead of the Mori, simply because the Mori is 25 bucks a skein and the KPPM is only $13.50. Any thoughts from other knitters?

Oh, and I'm getting my sewing machine today! Now I can try to fight off a fabric-buying disease, too.