Going to hibernate for a while

Again I have had a far too busy week with visitors etc and I am feeling totally washed out so I have decided to take a few weeks off from blogging as I am in need of a break; also my Crohns is playing up big style. We are going away on Friday for a couple of weeks in the van which should at least relax me . As usual no idea were to, but 'up north ' some where !!

I just can't keep up with blogging and trying to post on forums etc and end up feeling guilty because I can't,so I am not going to go on line as much but spend more time chilling out(if possible !! ) & catching up with 'real' life .
I have so much knitting stuff I want to do as well and I haven't yet cast on for the Secret of the Stole and there are two clues to do so far and of course I will miss the next three !!

Winghams visit last week at the guild was great and yes I did buy more than I intended!! It's always the same ; get a room full of fibre freaks wowing at this and that and you can't resist; plus it's unbelievable how much stuff they bring with them . I bought stuff for my felting workshops, some BFL for DH to spin as he is ready for some more now that he has practically finished the Gotland .The rest was yummy merino /silk in various coloured 100gm hanks , destined to be Xmas gifts. A fair bit of silk in one form or another, some dyed some not . I met Anne Campbell at the all Wales gathering and we were nattering about silk spinning and she gave me some ideas I want to try out, so I bought a silk brick too.

On the knitting front I have made Claudia's Moebius and I love it . The only way I can describe the colours is ,like oil on water but none of these photos do it justice. Her service is amazing and I can't recommend her highly enough. I will be back for more of her yarns for sure.

So that it folks for now. I will try and pop in on blogs as & when I am able and I will think of you all and of course there is also Ravelry :)so I will post my FO as and when !!
Take care all and see you soon
Anne x

Life is so exciting at times

Thank you all for your lovely comment's & birthday wishes on my last post .
I had early visitors on my Birthday. I had just had my breakfast in my jammys, after a gentle start to the day and there on the doorstep was Kath and Emily at 9 am in the morning !!
Emily had her bunny ears on and a party dress and was shouting 'Happy Bifday Nain , I got flowers fo you' She was so excited and what a lovely surprise it was to see them both; the best pressie ever :)


So plans changed and we decided despite the weather that we would go and get some sausage and chips and go down to Black Rock sands and eat our lunch down there. It was great fun and even though it was blowing a gale Emily and I still made sandcastles ..... well I made sandcastles !!


and Emily flattened them

Sometimes the simplest of things are absolutely the best and that day was one of them. Thanks Kath :)
I had some lovely pressie's including flowers and a cake,two Elsebeth Lavold books which I wanted ( I love her cable work) some new jim jams and cosy socks,another lovely wooden shawl pin, pennies from DH ; some of which I spent in Llanidloes on Saturday and some will be spent on Thursday at our Wingham day with the guild.
I am also expecting a parcel from the lovely Claudia with yarn to make 'that' moebius with . I have wanted to make this one for a long time and Claudia very kindly sent me the pattern some time ago and I have wanted to make it with her yarn so I have been trying to choose which colours to do it in.
So after much to and fro wing of e-mails between us ,and of course she has opened a new shop too and has been very busy( do go and check it out as there are some fab yarns there) I have left it up to Claudia to choose for me . All I know is that it will be blues and greens and I am so excited as to what she has chosen for me. Do hope the postal strikes won't hold it up too long !!

We had the most fantastic day on Saturday with the all Wales Guild and I met up with loads of folks I knew and some I knew online but had never met. So there was a lot of talking, laughing , oohing and aahing going on all day .

Here are just some of the photos I took:

Meirionedd Guild's plastic yarn , mine is the bottle carrier on the left;actually its carrying an empty bottle of tonic water !!


My shawl on the left in one half on the Meirionedd Guilds display



The Lleyn had camel to work with and here it is . I made some of the triangles



Here is the display of work and my weaving is one of those on the top


There was so much to see and I have taken loads of photos and such a great atmosphere, as always when we crafty folk get together.



After lunch we went to a talk by a lady called Jenny Balfour-Paul , all about Indigo. It was a truly fascinating talk and slide show and I learnt a lot more about indigo from around the world.I am definitely going to do indigo dyeing in the very near future as I was given a kit of natural indigo by a kind guild member. If you are in the Brighton-Hove area there is an exhibition in the
Brighton Museum until January and then I gather it is moving to Washington DC. I would love to see this exhibition as, lovely though the slides were and the fantastic fabrics she brought I am sure it would be worth a visit to see all the other things collected together.
Of course there were trade stalls there as well and I was fascinated by all the wonderful buttons that 'The Threshing Barn' had so I bought a few of them; they were either porcelain or glass. No idea as yet what to use them for apart from the sheep ones which Emily will definitely have. I was ages there trying to decide which to have and still wish I had bought some others. I LOVE buttons.


Now I thought I had done well as I wasn't going to buy any more fleece but then my dear friend Rita dragged me off to see a couple of her friends and so I ended up buing a lovely coloured Corridale 1/4 fleece in the most lovely colour combination of greys and fawns, a 1/4 fleece Corridale shearling in brown with blonde tips from one friend ;both of these are very clean and soft with a fab crimp,so will hardly need any prep at all and can be spun as they are without carding.
She then introduced me to another of her friends and I fell in love with her alpaca fleece so had to have some of that in a lovely mink colour with blonde tips . I have already started spinning this as it is so soft and it was tempting me to get my hands on it asap.I want to make it soft and bouncy ,so I am not putting too much of a twist to it when I am spinning it and it will be fairly chunky too. I have spun alpaca before but it was no where near as good as this and I am truly enjoying this fleece. I have to say that when you do get a good fleece it makes spinning it a joy. I also met up with another friend of Rita's who has Wensleydale sheep,so I have put my name down for one of next years shearling fleece!! Must spin all of the lovely fleece I have now over winter :)
I am not buying tops to spin from Winghams but for felting instead as we have two felting workshops planned with both Guilds over the next few months.

Tony's sister is coming over tomorrow for a few days ,so another packed week ahead for us .

Oh and Kath has told me to tell you this. I needed another skein of the lovely Bowmont Braf from Glasu to make something for Emily and thankfully they were there and as we were chatting I was asked if I was Welsh speaking and had I knitted what I was wearing which I replied 'Yes' to both and then he asked me would I go to Ally Pally this Thursday ? S4C our Welsh TV channel would pay for me to go and be interviewed as they wanted a 'trendy !!! young !!! Welsh speaking knitter ' to interview . Well I laughed and thanked him but declined as he was only right in one thing ; I can speak Welsh, but I was very flattered to be asked LOL.

PS: In ALL my excitment HOW could I forget to show you the gift that Kath, not my Kath but this Kath sent me. It was so beautifully wrapped and with a lovely card too which was made by her . I love this pin and it matches my new shrug perfectly. Thank you so much Kath, you are such a sweetie and so talented; I will treasure this gift.