A relaxing time

I did a bit of shopping whilst away..

The new Noro book from Voirrey

Vogue 25th is as good as it should be, lots of things to be tried and patterns to be followed.

I've not seen a piecework before, it doesn't have as many pages as other Interweave mags bu

t covers lots of crafts.

Knit N Style only seems to be available in Borders, it has basic patterns in it that look wearable...

And my main knitting of the weekend - a throw for Lou's sister.
The colours grew on me - I was asked for blue, cream, gold and yellow...

And by the end of the weekend I was getting very tired of it....

I was knitting other little things as well but I'm not going to share until they have been sent off...



And on the way home I stopped off at the best wool shop I've ever been to...

To be fair they actually have two shops as their stock doesn't fit in one....

These are a couple of shots of their 'normal yarn'

The other shop has Noro, Debbie Bliss, Rowan, Colinette and Hanne Falkenberg kits... I was too excited to take any pictures in there - overwhelmed by the amount of yarn....

They have the last stocks of Jaeger Extra fine merino ...

I had already decided that I was only going to buy some Jaeger Extra fine merino - and it was the only yarn I bought...

They did have some old Vogue mags, so the holiday ones for 2004 & 2005 had to be rescued from the counter...

And the nice shop keeper made me take one of these...

A shade card for the discounted yarn...

I was so good - I nearly brought home one of these but decided that I should finish Mermaid first....
Or should that be start and finish Mermaid first !!

I've also been trying to use up the Noro cone I bought at Skipnorth - back and fronts nearly finished - I'm hoping that a cardi for me will be finished by the weekend...