Road Trip!

.... or, Didn't We Have A Luvverly Day The Day We Went To I-Knit!

So, we went to see Yarn Harlot at I-Knit and we had a very good day. It began early mind, I left home about 6.30am, which in hindsight wasn't quite early enough; I was collecting Flajol, who lives, as DH puts it, on the way to nowhere (sorry Flajol...) and I overestimated Badger's ability as a space n' time machine so instead of leaving the car safely at Krafty's house we ended up meeting in Bamber Bridge and leaving Badger in a pub car-park with instructions not to get clamped and/or ticketed.

We drove, chattered, knitted and ate our way to Watford train station, and from there chattered and knitted our way across town to the Lawrence Hall not too far from the Houses of Parliament (awesome).

The I-Knit hall was a feast of yarn-y goodness - I missed Woolfest (darn the free trip to Portugal...) so this was the first time I've been anywhere like it; it was hard to know where to start and even harder getting near to any of the stalls... it was busy busy busy and everyone had their elbows sharpened, my word! The busyness didn't really surprise me but goodness me! those knitters aren't as friendly as you'd like to think you know, they really weren't taking prisoners when it came down to who grabbed the best yarn first.

That didn't stop me getting rid of my cash though, I'm pretty patient when I want to be. I invested in 4 beautiful skeins of yarn (which I will stash on Ravelry in due course) and something for my mum, who reads this, so I won't say won't but she's got a birthday coming up so it would have been rude not to buy her a ball of dusty half-price acrylic dk in post-box red wouldn't it?

And I got onto Yarn Harlots blog!

More next time, TheBoy is awake and I've gotta get a move on...
xx