LYS in Parma, Italy

A couple of weekends ago we took a little trip to Parma, ostensibly for my son's baseball tournament, but really, unbeknowst to my family, it was all a ploy to find a certain LYS that Connie had spotted.  Well, I don't know if this is the same store, but when I asked at our hotel for a "negozio dei filati," this is the one the concierge suggested, on Via Mazzini.  And it was a pretty good one, so in celebration of the find, I bought some Egyptian cotton yarn, a brand I'd never heard of--Ormaghi Filati Red Dune--in a grassy green, and some Filatura di Crosa Brillante, a cotton/viscose blend, in a light, subdued gold.  As you can see, I wasn't the only one to be drawn in by the shop window display.

Unfortunately those yarns went straight into the stash, because I just received this yarn in the mail--a lovely bamboo/merino wool blend.  The photo doesn't really do it justice; in real life it's less blue, more palest violet, with a subtle silvery sheen.  More like the color of the blossoms on the wisteria I spotted the other day.  How old is a wisteria vine, if the trunk is nearly a foot in diameter?!  And yes, this yarn is destined to become my next project for Interweave Knits, so I'd better get to work!