Yarn Purge

After having bought another sackful of knitting cones in the self-same charity shop as several weeks ago here and having problems finding some spare space to place the sack I've decided to have a purge of stash. I've gone through all bar my laceweight yarns and pulled out either odd balls that I'm never going to utilise although there was a good reason for buying them when I did. What the reason is I've no idea now so they might as well go. The other are job lots of yarn that I also bought for a reason and now decided that I'll either never knit the project I had in mind or can't remember the project.

They are all listed on e-bay here

Now I've done all the yarn I'll be moving on to the books...

UPDATE: Secret Pal 1

My first SP11 parcel arrived this morning and looked something like this:



Inside were crammed a lovely lot of goodies:


This was wrapped with a hand crocheted flower:

and revealed yumminess. I did manage to restrain myself to open the rest of the parcel before sampling it ;-)

A lovely smelling lemon candle.

A postcard from SP from Estonia.

Wonderful green yarn goodiness:

There was also this lovely variagated yarn:

which my SP sent me a picture of for a shawl that she had made with being closely inspected by Mr Pooch!

Thanks again SP!

Birmingham

This is only one of two pictures I managed to take at the NEC as my camera batteries died. The lady on the right is from the Guild of Embroiderers and is being taught to knit by Brenda.

Here is 80% of my yarn purchases. The blue is alpaca, the emerald green linen, the brown camel and the green/white/brown variagated at the top is Nepalese wool of which I bought another skein that is currently on the needles being made into a bland moss stitch scarf for me.

Here are my crochet cotton purchases. I've seen the green in something finished and it looked tempting so glad to have been able to buy some. The ecru cotton on the right I will be using to make the gilot in the Vogue Classic Crochet collection book.

I bought these buttons and intend to use the two round ones (each round part is a different colour but this doesnt appear too well on the picture) on a secret project.
I then also picked up these buttons. The red ones are poinsettias and will be used on something for a christmas present. The bottom one are dogs related and I couldn't resist them.

I also picked up these two books. The Modular Knitting is for a friend of mine and the lace style was more for creative thought food than for the purposes of creating anything featured.

I got back into the office this morning to find that this book had been delivered on Friday. It was from my friend as a thank you present for the alpaca scarf that I made for her grandmother's 90th birthday.

Now time to go and hibernate and catch up on sleep.

Shows Update

No not that sort of show!

We've had the summer run of shows akin to the Village Fair that was on BBC1 recently. I entered my sheep shawl in three consecutive shows and got three seconds in a row. The prize money amounted to a total of £7.50 which all rather promptly disappeared into a pet shop and came out a food. Funnily that happened last year as well. Am I developing a pattern here?