original colourway - image from Purl Bee

Now. My timing is so wrong. I should always trust myself, and buy things I love when I see them. You’d think I’d-a learned this one by now, wouldn’t you? I fell in love with this blanket and the original colours it was made up in, when it first showed up on the Purl Bee site. In 2008! I can’t believe it. It seems like only a year or so ago. Not three! Anyway. So now, I’m really keen, right, I’m ready to buy, ready to knit, and Purl Soho has only 3 out of the 7 colours available! Bummer!!!!

I immediately went to work, searching the internet, but you can imagine the kinds of things I found when I searched on “Alchemy” (the yarn brand) and “Temple” (the yarn itself) and “Lantern” (the first colour I was missing). Yeah. Anything but yarn! So I’m wondering if maybe you might know where else – on this entire planet – I can find another retailer who stocks this beautiful yarn. Please let me know if you have any ideas. I know I can always substitute colours, but they’re not the same. And once I have a colourway fixed firmly in my brain, I find it nigh impossible to shake it loose. So, do you know anywhere I should try? The specific colours I’m looking for are Lantern, Citrine, Topaz, and Platinum.