DPNs Please

How hard do you think it would be to find a set of size 2 DPNs in a town that boast 3 yarn stores?

Pretty damned hard, I'm learning.

Full disclosure: I want metal, I have metal, I work well with metal and metal doesn't give me nightmares of breaking in my purse leaving my work dangling amongst splinters.

The search: Knit store one--my knit store-- the one where they know me by name. I can have wood or bendy plastic with bolbus tips, ummm no, I'll pass. Knit store 2-- oh, so close to scoring-- they have INOX in all sizes (as opposed to #1 which had Inox up to size 0) can you guess, though which ONE size they were sold out of?

So I took my search on a more creative route. Walmart and Meijer's--- oh so close, but just not close enough, Ahhh but there's a Michaels, Michaels will have Boye and they've got to have those sizes that the Super Stores don't.

Can you believe that Michaels had 2 sizes of aluminum DPNs and 2 bamboo. That's right-- 4 sizes total, and that's all they had hooks for too. Someone should talk to them.

I'm not even going to try JoAnnes-- they don't carry sock yarns anymore. I was desperately looking the weekend I had to go see my dad off, I know.

So what am I to do-- well, I guess finish the stupid socks that I already have on the 2 sets that I currently own. Guess Lisa Souza's "Wild Things" will just have to wait. sigh.

And for those that are wondering about my absence-- well between catching the never ending cold and moving and misplacing my camera-- I just haven't had fodder for blogger.

Though I've made 2 sweaters and 2 pairs of socks with 2 more sweaters and 2 more pairs of socks on the needles-- it just isn't the same without imagery.