Yesterday I visited StashYarns in Putney on Upper Richmond Road, SW15 with my knitting pal Charlotte. This was our first visit to stash yarns. The store opened on June 6th this year, I noticed a lot of positive blogchatter and tempting photos about this friendly little store and couldn't resist a visit. Charlotte and I had to be back in central London for 12.00 so we arrived at the shop as soon as the doors opened at 11.00 - our visit was short but very sweet :-) I bought a copy of Knit1, the art edition, and my very first skein of Lambs Pride in Blue Heirloom. It's yummy. The lady in the store was very helpful and I got to try on a beautiful on the bias shawl that had a ladder pattern produced by dropping stitches. Stash Yarns has a great selection of yarns, addi needles and lots of magazines and tempting books too. The range of lambs pride in stock is impressive, the colours are really vibrant and I am now on the look out for more worsted weight projects for a repeat visit.
During the week I nipped into John Lewis on Oxford Street to buy some Rowan cotton rope in Cyclamen, (shade 071) for another Saturday Market bag as seen in June edition Magknits. I started a blue one after my trip to Chester, pictured here in Rowan all seasons cotton (Jazz).
And... in Chester last weekend I bought a skein of Meilenweit Magico (colourway 2523) sock yarn by lanna grossa, 2.5mm addi bamboo dpns with teddy needle protectors, a pair of 10mm addi circular needles and a skein of Rowan all seasons cotton, both for my market bag project bag as pictured above this photo. I bought all these goodies from stash fine yarns. My nan always buys her yarn supplies from the Chester Market and I was not to be disappointed there either. Here I picked up the contrasting Scarlet 09 and olive 69, King Cole Merino Blend dk required for the BIG1. A bargain at two quid a skein, that's 40p cheaper than one of the online stores I spotted, but unfortuantley the main colour, Mink, wasn't in stock ;-(
In the market I also bought some Wendy Melody (172 green and 174 red) - I have plans for an evening shawl project using elogated stitch.
Needles locked and loaded... Now I need to get myself some of those fancy project progress bars to monitor my new projects...
2 comments:
Excellent haul. I can't wait to visit Stash later this year. Although I have taken 'The Post-Woolfest Pledge' so it will have to be a needles only purchase....
No more stash and run for me either - time to get down to the serious business of knitting.
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