On the road again....

A hectic week since I last posted.

First a huge thank you to everyone who sent good wishes for the blog birthday.

Last week saw me with a heavy workload for the day job so it was a huge relief to escape to the "sanity" of Olympia where I enjoyed the company of some great friends and bloggers under the pretence of running the relax and knit stand!

here's a small taster...

Silkwood have a new yarn, its a mix of 70% of their home grown angora and 30% lambswool.

As I arrived at the show on Thursday morning Les taunted me with a skein that Tess had handpainted in purples.

One minute later it was in my bag and I'd blown my self-imposed yarn ban!!!

Here's a picture of one of the volunteers wearing a gorgeous scarf knitted out of Silkwood's yarn in a Ripple Stitch pattern.

Jan was gracious enough to bring along a copy of her new book Ripple Stitch Patterns for me ( and everyone else ) to drool over. Needless to say the order was placed that night - though why I delayed I don't know as I love and own most of the other knitting and crochet books she has written.

Look who dropped by for a short visit and spent most of the day with us! I hadn't seen Gaz since the last time we played "Eltham Raiders" (at least 3 years ago - disgraceful when we live about 5 miles away from each other). I'm not sure if it was the spinning that made the crowds stop and look or if it was the fact that there were 2 men on the display.

A quieter moment at Olympia showing RBT and her mini- class

A few hectic days back at work and I'm now throwing things into a bag to head off to the Sewing for Pleasure show at the NEC.

Posted by Yvonne at March 29, 2006 08:45 AM