My first main purchases were done at the Cherry Tree Hill stand and comprised of:
which is going to be used for a nameless (at this stage) person. I'm going to have to trawl through my lace patterns before I can make a start on it as I didn't have anything in particular in mind at the time.
I also got these two skeins of Orenburg lace as well as a "small" amount of wedding ring shawl laceweight yarn. I didn't want to get any more yet because (a) I've not started it and (b) I'll be using this as a tester to make sure its the right yarn for me.
I then stopped off at the Lantern Moon stand and rather than buying their needles I bought these two tape measures. I blame Laura for it as I'd seen her with them so I bought a black sheep and a queen bee tape measure. Its not that I am short of tape measures but rather their collectability.
Saturday saw Noonie and I having a day out and about in London. I'll not be recounting the tale of the bead shop here though !
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Here is a picture of us reflected in the window of Peter Jones up the King's Road in Chelsea. You can see the balls of yarn at the bottom of the model's feet. As I remember there were also strands of yarn going up to and round her hands as well.
As the last stop of the day (well not including dinner and the cinema) was at I-Knit. I'd had an exchange of emails last year with Gerard as to exactly where they were situated as I used to have a friend who lived on the opposite side of the square to where the shop is now situated. It turns out that the shop is not where I thought (on the site of the cafe) but rather it has replaced the food shop where my friend worked.
My purchases for the day were:
Two skeins of alpaca (that were thrust in my hand by Sue who had been there for the day) as well as the Gossamer Web shawl collection of three shawl patterns).
There was also this skein of Fyberspates which Jenn may string me up for as I didn't buy it from her but that's because she was being stubborn when I met her ;-)
Noonie bought these skeins and has given them to me for a lace shawl that she saw when flicking through Victorian Lace Today. Fortunately for her I already have the book otherwise I would have made her purchase it as well.
My final purchases of the show were these from Jamiesons.
You will see that I have already cast on for the Horseshoe Scarf. This is because in my infinite wisdom I had packed the unbloggable project in my bag and it was only when I took it out of my knitting bag on the train on the way down I found I had not packed any more balls of yarn other than the one I was already working from and running out of! Its only an eight row pattern and four of those are plain knit so I'll not be having any need to be frogging this one.
The circular I am using is a HiyaHiya one which I bought from Knit N Caboodle. I'm not sure thatI notice a lot of difference between that and the other circulars that I use but time will tell when I swap back.
I did acquire a couple of other things at AP but I can't mention those as they are intended for my SP.
