Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Rottingdean revels...

This is the stash from Saturday....
Actually, no; the first pic is the stash from Friday night. This is what happens when you have a very generous friend who also dyes, and buys yarn from a place which has Ravelry badges... you're presented with a bag of gorgeous yarns, told to take what you want because each skein has... wait for it... A KNOT in it. Possibly TWO.
Wouldn't it be nice if major dyers worked on the same principle??

The badge says greensideknits, by the way; not an attempt to hide my identity, more an attempt to get the yarn colours more or less right... (By the way, Tesco in Hove were doing a 4-way electrical extension thing at £1.48 last weekend. I can now plug the daylight lamp in again!)

In order of acquisition:

Two Wibbo laceweights which didn't make it onto her stall (she really shouldn't have had me helping to lay out, bwahahahaha) - front to back, colourways Scottish Highland and Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal...

There were also stitch markers I couldn't bear to put out, but they didn't photograph well and they might be gifts anyway...

After that I was lured over to Nimu's stand...

The top yarn is a bamboo/wool combination; the bottom one is a pure aran-weight wool. The colours are stunning and the photo doesn't begin... oh, you know.

We were sitting opposite Limegreenjelly. While Wibbo is trying to stay strong and not get into the whole spinning thing, I'm already lost. This didn't come with a name - I'm calling it Agincourt - thinking of the Laurence Olivier "Henry V"...

Back in Wibboland, there may also have been some sock... This one's called Memory Keeper.

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