New knitter, where does everyone buy their wool.

[rantinghousewife]

Have just taken up knitting and crocheting properly, where is the best place to order wool from? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Actually dressmaking fabric suggestions would be handy too, if that's poss. Would be really grateful.

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I just started knitting & crocheting again recently (hadn't done any in years) & have bought some stuff off ebay. I bought a copy of Simply Knitting the other day 'cos I wanted the free work bag to keep my bits n bobs in & from the looks I got in WH Smith you's have thought it was a porny mag - all these smirks & shocked stares! DH got home & said fgs tell me you haven't bought a KNITTING magazine! He says I'm turning into a dowdy middle-aged wifie since I had all my hair cut off (funny how everything comes back to that - he should try combing out 3 feet of fecking hair every morning). Anyway I don't care 'cos I fancy a go at the felted vase

Pruni - I'd be interested

Actually the magazine did have a wee article about knitting the boobs that MWs & HVs use to demonstrate bf techniques & told you where you can download a pattern . I've got half of a pair already lol & am going to wait 'til I've done a few more before I send them in to the addy in the mag. Probably won't bother telling the guy at the PO counter what's in the parcel tho' - I can imagine the converstaion;

PO clerk - Anything of value in the parcel?

GW - No, just some boobs.

Yes please pruni and then I can try and flog you some of mine

I thought the knitted titties were fab Greebo
If it is any consolation I think Simply Knitting is the best UK knitting mag on the market (please don't ask how I know this)
Knit your dh a full-face balaclava with your lovely long hair if you still have it. That'll shut him up.

lol at the hairy balaclava Marina! I didn't keep the hair unfortunately - wish I had 'cos I found out later I could've sold it. Wonder how much I could've got for 2+ feet of wavy strawberry blonde hair? I did notice that it didn't get swept into a pile with all the other trimmings on the floor hmmm . . .

Greebo I got SK last month and thought it was really good - a good resource. Did anyone see this ? I think it looks amazing.

Pruni I may be interested in buying some of your stash too.

I have also bought from Kangaroo, I liked the site as you could get a really close up picture of the yarns.

Maybe we could have a stash reduction thread where we all buy each others' yarn and end up with the same amount as before?

NQC, at the risk of sounding quite mad I think you told me you got the 4 ply from Jackson's, which is a ye olde department store in Reading but is not a branch of John Lewis. That's Heelas, as Marina rightly says. You can post the picture of your yarn store, I can bear it. Even though I just came back from NY without having visited Purl Soho

i have just been to a shop called the yarn garden in portland, oregon and they have FOUR rooms of yarn & needles. 3 rooms just full of yarn packed in, a room with books and needles and a tea shop on the end. was HEAVEN!!! i spent an obscene amount of money and got such amazing wool i was practically hyperventilating.

now why can't we have shops like that in london?????

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I am deeply of those lucky knitters who have just come back from the US. Did you both have a super time?
I think a Stash Safe House Scheme, whereby we fool our dps that we are reducing the stashes by simply substituting them for a different collection of yarns to avalanche out of the spare wardrobe, has to be a goer. We can smuggle them in and out of each other's homes, and the poor fools will be thinking, "Well at least she finally got rid of that mountain of fuchsia mohair"...

And me and MP are going to open branches in Sarf London too pruni.
I had to leave John's Outsize Clothes and Knitting Supplies last week double-quick last week when ds spied the giant ladies' briefs flapping in the breeze and starting asking me anxiously what sort of shop is this mum?

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I could actually set up a knitting bender anywhere local inside one of John's large pairs of briefs. I think ds was honestly quite disconcerted. can we please go now mum?

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Agree wool shopping with child is bonkers. I either come away with nothing or stuff I don't like/want.

Online is OK, but you don't get to feel it!

so that's South London, Edinburgh and the Pearl of the Thanet Coast
PS Fio be very afraid, a family at school have a cute cottage in Whitstable they let out....

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Ceolas, feel is so important I agree.
I have ended up with some almost manically mercerised stuff I am not sure what to do with. It SHINES

And the colours are never quite right...

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