I was going to wear jeans today, but then I realised that it was actually quite warm and switched to linen trousers.
Shawl – Travelling Woman
Top – Monsoon
Trousers – Fat Face
Sandals – GreenShoes
I’m not entirely sure I like how I look in these trousers (or, indeed, any trousers), but they’re cool and comfortable and work well as weekend wear.
I was up and about much earlier than I normally am on a Saturday, as I was meeting G and driving over to the Fyberspates open day. As well as the opportunity to buy copies of the new Scrumptious Collection pattern book and see the sample garments there was a lot of yarn on sale: Jeni is moving to new premises and was looking to clear some old stock out.
It’s fairly well documented, I think, that where yarn is concerned I tend to think that willpower is something that happens to other people, and I’m currently in love with laceweight and building up my stash of that in the same way I was building up my stash of sock yarn a year or so ago. (Almost everything I’ve bought lately has been laceweight, often paired skeins which can become cardigans; I’ve hardly bought any sock yarn.) Unfortunately for my bank balance, there was a lot of laceweight yarn on the sale tables today, and as well as a copy of the book I came away with this little lot:
From left to right: Nef Lace in green, Scrumptious Lace in blue, Elegance Lace in burgundy, two skeins of merino/silk lace in dark gold, and two skeins of merino/tencel sock in pink, blue and lilac.
Possibly a moratorium on yarn buying until Knit Nation in July might be a good plan.
Those yarns really are scrumptious colours, can’t wait to see what they become
It’s cold and miserable up here, I’m wearing a long sleeved top and cardigan and thinking I might go back to wool tights tomorrow!
It’s quite warm here, and we still haven’t really had much rain to speak of in two months – makes me rather glad my garden is a mess and will shortly be being gravelled, I think it’s awful for people who are trying to grow things!
According to the farmer at the cattery, we had all the rain we should have had in April over the weekend at the beginning of May that I spent in York! It’s been pretty mixed since I got though, our backyard is like a jungle.
It is cold, but I’m not complaining! Last year it was 26 degrees for the marathon!
Sadie – those yarns are gorgeous. I’m currently knitting my Featherweight in Scrumptious Lace. The yardage is amazing!
They do have very good yardage. The gold merino/silk lace is 150g skeins and I seem to have about 3,500m – I could probably get a cardi out of one skein let alone the two!
I am *very* envious that you got Fyberspates yarn on sale. I love her yarns.
She does beautiful yarns, and although I really like the commercial Scrumptious range I think I prefer the hand-dyed ones – I love how subtle but still vibrant the ones I bought today are!
Very envious of your trip, would love to go to Fyberspates – have only seen them at Knit Nation etc!
I’ve not been before, which is silly really given how close it is to where I live – she’s my local indie dyer, really
Oh, I wish I’d realised that was today! I love Fyberspates stuff – last three FOs have been Scrumptious, and the WIP is Elegance laceweight.
Oh, sorry, I should have emailed to see if you fancied coming along
She’s doing another one on the Bank Holiday Monday next weekend, though, so you could go then!