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

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Fillyjonk · 26/04/2007 07:04

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...

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Fillyjonk · 26/04/2007 20:23

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

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Cloudhopper · 26/04/2007 20:27

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.

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Fillyjonk · 26/04/2007 20:36

ta cloud

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Tamum · 26/04/2007 22:59

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?

Prunerli · 26/04/2007 23:01

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

Did you shoplift it?

GreebosWhiskers · 26/04/2007 23:13

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

Tamum · 26/04/2007 23:15

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

Tamum · 26/04/2007 23:17

Incidentally, another gifty type shop at the top of our road has closed down and been replaced by...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.

Prunerli · 27/04/2007 07:24

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

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Fillyjonk · 27/04/2007 20:08

they had a big bargain bin

Ohhhh yes

it was fabulous

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

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Fillyjonk · 27/04/2007 20:09

tamum where are you

warrender park road or thereabouts?

newington?

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Tamum · 27/04/2007 21:11

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.

Tamum · 27/04/2007 21:12

Oh bum. Handknit

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Fillyjonk · 27/04/2007 21:32

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

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Fillyjonk · 27/04/2007 21:32

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

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Tamum · 27/04/2007 21:33

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

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Fillyjonk · 27/04/2007 22:15

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...

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Tamum · 27/04/2007 22:22

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

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Fillyjonk · 28/04/2007 07:44

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.

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Prunerli · 28/04/2007 07:51

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

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Fillyjonk · 28/04/2007 07:55

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

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Prunerli · 28/04/2007 07:56

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

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Fillyjonk · 28/04/2007 08:08

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.

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kiskidee · 28/04/2007 08:13

methinks i now have reason to visit auntie in wells!

warthog · 06/05/2007 18:05

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...

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