Living in the foothills of the Rockies has its advantages, such as the beautiful views and ever-present wildlife, but every few days we have to traipse into town to run errands. We try to combine as many as possible, which always means that Ken needs to stop by one of the homer stores and shop. I enjoy hardware store about as much as he enjoys doing through a Cold Water Creek store. We are about to solve this huge divide of interests by visiting a shopping center in Highlands Ranch that has both a Home Depot and a Tattered Cover book store. Thank goodness for cell phones. He drops me off and I can wander around or sit down and knit, waiting for him to pick up some plumbing pipe for his solar panel invention, or some piece of lumber that he needs to shore up some joint. He calls me when he is done and I don't have to look at paint samples to pass the time.My idea of heaven is a yarn and book store combination with a really good brand of coffee. The Tattered Cover is about as close as to heaven on earth that there can be even if I need to bring my own yarn. First, I head to the magazine section to see the most current knitting magazines. I have a rule that I don't buy a magazine unless there are at least three projects in the magazine that I would definitely make. I don't buy a book unless there are at least five projects that I would make. Additionally, if my local library carried the book or magazine, I take it home first to see if I am still in love with the contents before investing in it.
It's a dumb rule.
I enjoyed reading this post. Knitting & Reading are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI love your rule!! I have the same one for beading and cross stitch magazines. I do sometimes break the rule, but that is another story! I must check out that Tattered Cover, I did not know one was so close to me.
ReplyDeleteNot a dumb rule! I have a similar 'quota' for buying books or magazines, I also now include cookbooks. I just picked up a knitting book and a cookbook, and have another knitting book on it's way to me. The cookbook and second knitting book were library reads that I thought worth owning. The first knitting book was one I flipped through at a yarn shop, sadly, they charge full list price for their books, and given I ws 'short' that day, and secondly, I thought I could get a better deal elsewhere. I did and at a savings of $9.
ReplyDeleteAnd on the topic of knitting *and* reading, as in simultaneously, I will have my Kindle read to me while I knit, the best of both worlds, with the knidle in text to speech mode, I can read hands free, leaving my hands to do the knitting.