COLDSPRING
I got these two cones. Colours are pink, yellow, blue and white.
Then I got these two hanks to make into a jumper for me.
Finally I bought a few odd balls which appealed to me:
THE SKEP
I bought these two balls of Sirdar Blur with the intention of doing a scarf for a friend's grandmother. The needles I was playing with it with on the Saturday night were too small so will be redoing with proper size needles.
I then also got this skein of yarn with the intentions of another jumper for me :)
KNITTING & CROCHET GUILD
I got this cone of ?3ply
along with this blue skein of a similar weightage
and couldn't resist this of Fiddlesticks (seems to be a running theme here!)
I had to break the trend though with these three books. Unfortunately I upset one of the group with the Wild Knitting purchase as they had had their eye on it already. I only bought it because one of the woman from my local group had made the armadillo wrap which features in teh book so wanted to get it so I could show her the book. Unfortunately I found out at the group Tuesday night that she had borrowed the book from another lady of the group :(
And this ball of Tofutsies just happened to fall in my bag. I thought it quite heavy at £12 a ball but then when I read the ball band it is 100g ball rather than the 50g I was thinking. KCG Trading at the moment seem to be the only UK outlet I am aware of selling this yarn so depending how I take to it depends how well I'll be adding to their profits.
WINGHAM WOOL WORK
This was the only stop of the day for Sunday. I wasn't expecting to spend that much because they are predominantly a fibre merchant but they turned out to be the most expensive stop. I bought these Surina items, two different ended crochet hooks and some double pointeds.
I got this fibre to play with Mabel as I liked the look of the colourway:
Then I got four skeins of Sari silk. I grabbed these because it is the first time that I have seen it in plain colours rather than the kaleidoscope versions that are normally available.
Finally, I got this large skein of green yarn. I bought a couple last year on SN and have still yet to use them so I will definitely have more than enough this year. Unless of course I go off off green - hmmmm not too likely methinks!
2 comments:
Wild Knitting - one of my favourite knitting books, for the sheer fun of it!! (don't know if you've noticed, btw, that it contains one of Debbie Bliss's very earliest published designs - the glorious sweet bag mac).
Thanks for your recent e-mail, had meant to drop you a line, hopefully I've made up for it by actually getting around to doing an update on the blog.
Lovely to see your goodies from skip north, great to see that green fibre for Mabel! Of course seeing all this stuff does make preparing your 1st package a little bit harder...but don't worry I have a few ideas up my sleeve! (secret pal!)
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