today, my friends, I am off to getknitted...

[Fillyjonk]

ds wants a pair of dragon mittens and i really don't have any suitable yarn, oh no...

and we are in bristol for the day anyway...

so, you know, its thelogical thing to do

will proabably be a flying visit with at least one grumpy kid but hey...

just wanted to share this, really

here is

i do love the amy butler stuff (though price is shocking) ditto seacell...

it was a real pick me up

i've been knitting with inherited/sale yarns in depressing colours for SO long

on the one hand i have learnt about stuff like dyeing.

on the other its feckin tedious and dull to be making do ALL the time. I want knitting to be a joy, tbh, not an excerise in thift,

am feeling i spent quite a lot but...this is about all i have spent since 2003 really

Well, it sounds like you put me to shame. I just seem to waste money on yarn and never get anything useful out the other end.

It sounds like you really deserved it, and good on you for having such a lovely day.

ta cloud

Blimey filly, how on earth did you manage that? . Lorna's Laces alone is about 7 quid a skein usually, and so's Noro. Did they have a massive sale on?

Yes I was wondering same...how on earth did you spend so little on such lovely stuff?

Did you shoplift it?

I'm with prunerli & tamum - how did you manage that? I got 3 balls of cotton dk from my local wool shop to crochet a sling for ds & it cost me a tenner! Looks like I'd have been cheaper jumping on a train

Actually Pruni, we could probably fly down them from Edinburgh and still save money. Excellent, an MN field trip. I don't know where you're based Greebos, but feel free to join us

Incidentally, another gifty type shop at the top of our road has closed down and been replaced by... not another gifty shop, amazingly, but a bead shop, hurrah. So I've got that and HK within about 100m of my hosue. So ner.

It had to happen, tamum, I am amazed how one 100m stretch can support what is it? 132 gift shops?

they had a big bargain bin

Ohhhh yes

it was fabulous

I did pretty much clean it out though, the rest was fluffy sirdar

tamum where are you

warrender park road or thereabouts?

newington?

Bargain bin???? Well done, that's fantastic and a good reason to go there rather than to their website...

No, neither of those locations have a fraction of the gifty shoppes we have. I am v. near \link{http://www.handknit.co.uk/\Handknit}, and I should state that we have a house and not a hosue I went to the beadshop today and it's ace.

Oh bum. Handknit

bruntsfield...bruntsfield...thats pretty close to warrender park road, opp links?

esp for warrender park road. oh happy memories that turned into 2 babies and a mortgage

i am glad you have a house not a hosue btw. always the best way, i feel.

Yes, a quick stroll across the links, and we actually used to live on WPR

DID you?

um

when? when? when?

(I never exactly lived there, dp did...top floor of one of the houses. oh feck i am all nostalgic now, i shall go to bed and dream of the meadows in summer and those weird car boot sales, and the bike shop, and now there is a feckin WOOL shop, oh ffs )

I still owe the library a book from first year (I did something Bad to get out of the fine.

maybe i need to return it...

Yes, I think you should return it asap and come and visit We were in a top floor flat too, from 1993 to 1998.

feck me

so was dp, he was doing a phd at edinburgh

i think exactly those years.

i am off to ask him if he has ever borrowed a pint of milk from someone of your name.

We might - might - be about to bid on a wreck of a flat v v near WPR
We're swithering
at yuor bargain bin joy, filly
Most bargain bins I see have a quid off a ball and that's yer lot

i do really really love edinburgh

one slight prob is that its a different legal system, both dp and I do have some legal qualifications which we need for our careers (though i am looking to change). oh and grandparents.

i think if it wasn't for those two facts we'd have been abck up there by now, tbh

Filly when we get moved, come and have a holiday
[serious]

oooh [also serious]

actually my parents have a 1 bed 1 kitchen mouse infested hovel off leith walk (albert street) (long story, let it be known that i worked my way through uni and am not a newtown ya). anyway, its on the market but am trying to work out if we might get up there, with a bunch of rentokill traps, before it goes...

oooh

ps i do, in all fairness, seem to attrach bargain bins. i had a great time at a shop in forest row where i got 14 balls of cork for £1 each, also a bunch of wrong season cashmerino and all seasons cotton. One thing, of course, is that if it is wool i am not bothered about colour cos i can dye it.

the cork met a sticky end when ds had a friend round. it was LOVELY, and even nicer after it was dyed. bloody kids. bascially they attempted to make a wrap round willow sculpture using "string" and then cut their way out.

i was a little narked. ds's friend's mum, also a knitter, was utterly, utterly mortified.

methinks i now have reason to visit auntie in wells!

what a lovely shop!

although can't complain as went to yarn garden in portland, oregon and it was WONDERFUL! i was hyperventilating. 4 rooms of yarn & needles!!! a whole wall of just sock yarn! i went a bit mad. will be knitting for years off what i bought. but pissed off that we don't have anything as good in london. is it THAT hard to stay in business? i HAVE to get my shop off the ground soon...