A yarn expedition

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.