We went to a wool shop today. We decided to limit ourselves money-wise on the way but it didn't work! The shop is in Clapham in Yorkshire. I'll tell more about the shop itself another day. I wanted to get lots of things to us in a wall hanging and I decided on a spring colour theme.

This is what I got. There is some Louisa Harding, a skein of Araucania, a ball of Rosaria Pop Corn, some embroidery threads, buttons, ribbons and a piece of yellow mottled material. Together with yarns that I already own I'm hoping I will be able to make something that is worth putting on a wall!

I will keep the blog up-to-date with how it is going - good or bad.

It was a lovely day today and it is all country-side from where we live to Clapham. Clapham is a pretty village with a stream. It is near Ingleborough and Ingleside Caves. A nice part of the Yorkshire Dales.

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My brother sent the photos from Christmas. This is the little blanket that I gave to my great-neice. It's a standard granny square with an edging from "crochet on the edge". You can just about see a little bit of the edging at bottom left of the photo.








He sent a second picture to me of another great-neice. This is Tinkerbell the scientist making bath bombs!









She recorded the results of her experiments on her new lap-top!







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Argh!

Well, here it is. A photo of our living room. It IS embarrassing.

It is only stuff though. There is nothing rotting or anything like that. We help out a charity so lots of it is bags of knitted things for the charity. And me and my sister have a loooot of hobbies so there is always a lot of stuff about that never gets put away.

The family home has devolved on us and when people leave they NEVER take all their stuff. Especially the ones who die! So we have rooms upstairs full of stuff we never touch. We should probably get rid of some of that too.

I'm hoping that blogging this will help motivate me to tidy up finally. When we get straight we are re-doing the living room altogether. Laminate flooring, new settees, tables for lap-tops etc.

We also have more wool than the average wool shop. And we keep buying more. Yesterday I got some Sirdar Supersoft Aran to try making a scarf from the loop pattern in "crocheting on the edge".

I decided that one row of loops was not wide enough so I started to attach another layer. I'm not sure yet what I think of it.



The wool is lovely though. I dont use much yarn that is 100% plastic. This is 100% Acrylic, 258 yards per 100g ball and it is very soft to the touch.



Anyone who knows me will be shocked that my cats have so far not been mentioned. They are gorgeous and I love them to bits. They are Main Coon cats so they have longer fur than normal cats but not long like a persian. Here is a pic of them when they were babies.

Petra, Tony and Imogen from Left to Right.


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