We were on holiday last week, which meant that I spent a lot of time sitting in front of the fire in a cosy cottage with a view of Lindisfarne, watching Babylon 5 and knitting, as a result of which I have now finished Tim’s stripy socks:
and started on Triskellian‘s push-me-pull-you socks which I agreed to test knit:
They’re fun, although the double knitting requires quite a lot of concentration and changing colours has a slightly MC Escher effect on my brain. So far so good, though.
When not knitting I also visited some of the local yarn shops. Obviously, if you only visit one shop in Alnwick it should be Barter Books, but I also had time to pop into the Alnwick Wool Shop, where I bought a skein of Brigantia DK, because it was pretty and a local brand:
I have no idea what I’m going to make from it. A hat, maybe.
And then we went to Edinburgh, where I met up with A for a visit to K1, where we spent a lot of time petting and prodding and comparing colours (we were both very taken with Jamiesons of Shetland’s chunky yarn in a glorious tealy-blue). In the end I stuck to the relative safety of sock yarn and bought a skein of Old Maiden Aunt superwash merino sock yarn in a lovely leaf-green:
This is telling me it wants to be a scarf of some kind, probably either Ishbel or Lace Ribbon. Any thoughts on which?
And even though it wasn’t really particularly local, I simply couldn’t resist a skein of Fyberspates self-striping sock yarn in the most glorious pink and lime colourway:
That’s going to be socks, although I’m not sure what kind yet.
That Shetland Chunky is gorgeous! My choice for this would be lace ribbon (both those patterns are in my queue)
I think mine might be too – I have other yarns that would be better for Ishbel…
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