What a week!
It's a bit difficult for me to believe that Friday has finally arrived, and I'm still more or less in one piece (barring my still-injured right hip, but the less said about that, the better). It started with a lovely Mother's Day, marred by bad news (more on that next week), then the build up to a shop update (always tiring), then a lovely trip to the Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia yesterday, and culminating in a fabulous morning doing a spinning demo at the Campaign for Wool's Wool House exhibit at Somerset House. I'm exhausted!
Since there has been so much this week, I'm going to spread out the events over several posts, otherwise this post will be waaaaay too long. Let's start with the easiest first:
The Spring Knitting and Stitching show at Olympia Kensington, running from 14th-17th March
.
I went to the Ally Pally K&S Show
in October, 2011, but I had an even better time this go around. Maybe it was because I had company, maybe it was because I managed to find some goodies to take home. In any event,
and I had a fabulous time.
We arrived promptly at 10:00, and headed inside. First up were the quilts. Many, many amazingly fantastic and glorious quilts. Here are a few of my favorites.
More pictures in
. After the quilts, we did a strategic walk through of the entire show. Which is to say, we wandered up and down the aisles dreamily for a couple of hours.
I first fell off the wagon at the
button booth. Alli actually wandered off for a while because I was so obsessed. I came home with plenty of buttons for at least 5 sweaters...
That's ten buttons each of five different styles.
I love the jumping sheep (hello baby sweaters!), and the others are all slated for various sweater designs.
Next falling-down point: a pile of bagged yarn at
. And Alli actually did fall down in it to reach a particularly fetching shade of red (sadly I was not quick enough on the draw to snap a photo).
Bags and bags and bags of wool. I ended up with three bags (oops). Two bags of Rowan Wool Silk DK in a lovely pale lilac.
And one bag of orange (!!!) Luxury Cotton DK - Alli insisted it was my color.
I keep telling myself that my fascination with orange is a recent thing, but
. It might be time for me to actually make myself a freakin' orange sweater just to get it out of my system.
Final purchase: an alpaca dress (!!!!) from Toft Alpacas. No picture taken at the time, but you can see me wearing it today at
and babbling on about my miniSpinner. More on that next post...