Today as usual, the stitch n bitch turned into a little yarn crawl. This time to The Wool Village, where I hadnt been before, but had been told many times how the little old lady in there was batshit crazy, and HATES people touching things, and that it was floor to ceiling YARN. Well they werent kidding. The place was OVERWHELMING. Just walls of yarn, in no particular order, and at first glance, not much of it was worth looking at.
However, dig for a moment, and you find some GEMS. Old discontinued yarns, colourways, as well as newer designer yarns for DIRT CHEAP. My heart almost stopped as I clutched The Last Bag Of Anchor Magicline In The Shop. My fave cotton, EVER.
I indulged and bought 2 skeins of some Jo Sharp silk georgette, that I found hiding behind a packet of dead muppet. Go figure.
This stuff is destined for soakers/longies – cleck 12ply (which has been discontinued) and some ‘Globe’ yarn that is a BEAUTIFUL colourway!
And these just fell into my hands. Terrible.
The lady was overall, very helpful, and warmed up to us once she realised we were real knitters and not just random idiots. She even brought out the Regia sock yarn to show us, at about half the normal price! I apologise for not getting a pic of the shop – i dont think anyone is game to. It’s something you have to see for yourself! The really funny part was the crazy lady taking a shine to poor N, who ended up being her personal Packet Of Yarn Fetcher from the toppling heights of the piles above!
So spent a crapload of money i wasnt expecting to, but came out with some really awesome goodies. And it’s only 6 sleeps to bendigo!
The red is a sumptuous Vatican Pie, and the blue is Salty Dog (yarrrrr!) which the lovely Shan VERY sneakily FORCED into my bag at Sunspun. Enabler alert! Going to Bendigo with her will be dangerous..
