Yarn Con -- "I Have Something in Mind"

I cannot tell if it is better or worse to go to a yarn festival looking for something very specific. While my heart was open to much yarn (okay, fine, nearly all the yarn), I have been seeking a skein that will be right for a certain project.  It's one of those descriptions that sends dyers scanning their booths and ruefully producing a skein to comments of "a gray pink, no paler than that. No, more of a solid. No, that's too thick/thin/shiny/flat"  It's that perfect color in your head and you enter booth after booth, scanning hopefully and saying perhaps that will do, even though you know to buy that skein will not actually be right and you'll just be sad that it isn't the perfect skein. To the various vendors at whom I sighed deeply and said "No, not quite," please accept my gratitude for your patience.

I did, however, find the correct yarn.

Do you see what I mean? It's a grayish pink. It's slightly more saturated in real life than it seems to have photographed. Perhaps it will show better on your screen.  

I had honestly decided that the yarn just wasn't going to be there at YarnCon. It would be okay, I said. I would continue the search, I promised. It wasn't like this was for a baby who arrived, you know, recently and whose baby present hadn't been mailed yet.  Of course not.  

Then I reached the Lorna's Laces booth and there it was.  The only glitch was that it wasn't the planned weight, so I've had to make a slight tweak to the plans for pattern choice, but it will do.  And I carried it around like a puppy for the rest of my shopping, to the point a couple of vendors asked if I was trying to match it.  

The yarn is Mrs. Crosby Hat Box, which is 75% merino, 15% silk, 10% cashmere. You can imagine how soft and luscious.  I am presently resisting winding it up instantly. I may fail.