I went for a wander today, down to the V&A, which is my favourite of the London museums and I’m very lucky to live close to it. I was mostly hunting for presents for a couple upcoming birthdays because the V&A store has so many lovely and unusual things in it. I managed to find [...]
Category Archives: Meg’s amazing lack of willpower
[Meg] Mmmm!
January 31, 2009 – 8:11 pm
First stash purchases of 2009! The first three are Shelridge Farm’s Soft Touch Ultra in Robin’s Egg (1), Apple (2) and Cornflower (1), purchased from the lovely Alice at Socktopus with a gift voucher I got for Hogswatch (yay!). The final one is Artesano’s Alpaca in Maroon (2), which I purchased at iKnits, partly as [...]
FO: Cabled Rangoli Hat
January 20, 2008 – 8:50 pm
I’m on a roll, hold the mayo! Cabled Rangoli Hat by Desi knitter in RCY Baby Alpaca DK, which was another accidental yarn purchase along with the Pure Cashmere. It took about a skein and a half and took about two days worth of knitting time. I had a few problems with the written instructions [...]
FO: Fetchings
January 16, 2008 – 10:05 pm
Look at that – I accidentally tripped and fell in the bargain bin at John Lewis on the weekend and came out with three skeins of Debbie Bliss’ Pure Cashmere in pale blue. I was determined that they wouldn’t be sucked into my stash because I am trying to knit the damn thing back into [...]
Mmm, yarn purchases
March 31, 2007 – 4:09 pm
I have been a tiny bit trigger happy in regards to yarn purchases recently. My co-blogger has been tutting at me a lot but it was all totally worth it when all my recent purchases arrived in one fell swoop and made a moderately awful week so much better. There’s just something special about getting [...]
Lost: Ability to not spend money, answers to the name ‘Argh’
February 26, 2007 – 1:41 pm
“I’m not buying any yarn”, I said. Repeatedly, in fact. I was merely going accompany my visitor to Loop and not buy any yarn. “I’m stashbusting”, I said. “I don’t need any more yarn”, I said. “I’m really not going to buy any more yarn”, I claimed. I am weak. We walked in and the [...]