new fancy yarns

i bought new fancy yarn this week:

this is my first skein of yarn from the verdant gryphon - mithril in poyntner's andromeda:

yep, those are snowflakes on my yarn.  i also got a cute mini skein of bugga! in eastern amber wing.

gryphon doesn't have all her color ways up yet, altho i have a few "yarn is ready!" email alerts for when the colors i fancy are live.

i've never knit with mithril before.  i bought a few skeins of it from SG last year in iSkein but haven't had the pleasure to use it yet (read - i'm hoarding it).  this will make a gorgeous shawl someday.

i succumbed to more ads at the bottom of the ravelry pages.  these beauties are by Dark Yarns:

the skein on the left is kraken sock in circe invidious.  it's a luscious blue/brown color way that i could not resist.  the one on the right is lusca sock in ligeia (dark).  i love me my bruised pallet.

i have entered the dark side, indeed!