International Jetsetter

Well, not quite, but I am posting this entry from Vancounver airport.

Best Beloved and I have been on holiday to Vancouver/Victoria/Seattle, and are now waiting to come home.

We had to buy another bag - because he bought lots of clothes (being a bloaty boy, the range is much better on the US side of the Atlantic) and I bought lots of YARN!

It was heaven. I didn't get to half of the yarn shops I wanted, as most are outside of the main "downtown" areas, but I did get approx 2 carrier bags full. There are some fab colours in my new stash, and I've gone for mostly natural fibres (I have a long history of using acrylics, when really I shouldn't).

I will post piccies when I'm home, as I've got some sorting and labelling to do for Rav, but I have increased my stash quality considerably. That's it now until Ally Pally, that's what I keep telling myself.

I did some craft work while away - the tapestry crochet bag pattern is a go-er and so I sat in bars and on trains hooking away I received some comments of praise for my work, which was very gratifying.

Another 12 hours, and we should be on British soil. Can't wait.








NB - Edited later to add pictures of yarn

It's a good job not many read this....

.... Or I'll have been letting my readership down.

Over a month since my last post?

P*** poor, I know.

But I've been busy with work n stuff.

I've managed quite a few things on the knitting/crochet front too.

This is my first tapestry crochet bag - a birthday gift for a friend.

I was so pleased with it that I wrote to a knitting mag, and asked them if they wanted to commission me for another! I'll keep you posted on that one.

I decided to make another anyway, to take my stuff to knitting group in:

I've also finished a dog coat - using my Russian joined stash balls in a fake-isle stylee.

And have made blanket for my cousin's baby (due later this year).

I've completed another couple of cushions - sponge bob for my niece's car, and a corporate one to raise money at work.

I'm also working on my first Baby Surprise Jacket, and loving the pattern.

You can see why I haven't had time to write, really!