The lure of yarn

Mood board on the J C Rennie stand

Attending the Knitting and Stitching Show has increased my stock of knitting projects unlikely to be finished any time soon!

Added to the To Do List are:
Cabled mitts using Blue Sky Melange 100% alpaca purchased from Loop
Pattern for Father's New Socks by Susan Crawford to be knitted in Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift
Christmas stocking from a (soon to be available) pattern from MillaMia. The yarn was purchased at a show price discounted rate.

It's about four years since I last went to the K&S Show. What I missed this time were the booths of people taking part in lessons and workshops. They are now tucked away, out of sight, in another part of the building so the 'doing' part of the show has been taken over by the selling.

One aspect of selling which could be much improved is the sandwiches. "Impressively Premium" they were not!

Festival of Quilts

"To see quilts?" asked the puzzled taxi driver taking me to the station so that I could catch a train to the NEC Birmingham.


Neither my explanation of what I was off to see nor the photos I've returned with do it justice!


It was a tiring day ........


... of stroking gorgeous fabrics, peering at intricate stitch-work on beautiful quilts, dreaming of having the time to commit to sewing and gawping at Amy Butler's diamond rings.


Somehow, I trekked all the way to Birmingham yet ended up only buying fabric from two exhibitors whose shops I visit regularly anyway!


The Robert Kaufman icecream print "Confections"and the mushroom print "My Happy Garden" by Cloud 9 Fabrics were both from The Eternal Maker and the pink flowers from Fabric Galore . All are destined to become nightwear of some sort, providing that time dream comes true.

Come back and finish what you started

I've added to the sidebar a list of unfinished knitting and sewing projects which taunt me from their various hiding places around the house. I'm hoping the sight of the terrifying list will goad me in to finally starting and/or completing them!

So it was with some restraint that I visited Mrs Moon. I came away with just a copy of Bright Young Things by Millamia. Once I've tackled everything on that list, I'll be back to buy the yarn for this gorgeous dress (which will hopefully get completed before next winter!)

Almost wearable!

The skirt I am making in sewing class is this close to completion! It is the (very) basic A-line summer skirt from Amy Butler's Midwest Modern Barcelona Skirts range, made up in a Freespirit quilting fabric, Darla by Tanya Whelan. I feel like a sack of spuds in it but perhaps I might feel differently by next summer!?!