Still plodding away on my 12 Things projects, avoiding the temptation to start any more just so I can say I did!
A definite move forward on the Hue Shift Afghan. Loving the colours in this quadrant. I was supposed to put this on the back burner but the temptation of being able to finish a square in an evening and still have time to put some serious work into the Floozy is too much.
Speaking of the Floozy it now has a significant chunk of sleeve. There's a couple of holes where I failed repeatedly at picking up stitches but I'm optimistically hoping they can be fixed.
And finally, as noted earlier in this blog, the second Xmas quilt is now a complete quilt top. I really need to start quilting these tops.
Just over a week ago my sister and I took advantage of a free Saturday coinciding with an indie yarn dyer's pop up in a local ish (just over an hour away so slightly more ish than local) yarn shop. I'd been wanting to visit the shop and had been admiring Pixie Yarn for a while so it was a fortuitous (thank goodness for autocorrect!) turn of events.
Alterknit Universe is located in the, what seemed to be with our minimal exploration, small village of Cleeve near Clevedon. The shop is small but perfectly stuffed with eye catching and wallet tempting items.
But we kept focused, mostly, on what we came for... Pixie Yarn.
A small selection of the yarn available; this was the vegan yarn, a blend of bamboo and linen.
After a lot of umming, ahhing and resisting I selected a speckled sock yarn and a sparkly sock yarn with coordinating mini.
There were plenty of others I could have chosen. My sister also selected some lovely yarns, including a vegan one for a gift and some that will hopefully become her first pair of socks (she's a good knitter who's tried various techniques but yet to do socks). We then got the fun of watching the yarn being wound into cakes, something I've never seen before. A fun expedition and if we'd brought some knitting we'd have happily spent longer there.
