The most beautiful yarn EVER!

I was in Clydebank weeks ago.  I don’t really know what I was looking for.  I went into the indoor shopping centre… not the huge one (that has almost everything in it), but the smaller, slightly dodgy-looking one.  I’ve seen people go in and come out of it all the time, I just never went in myself. Until then. 

It was then that I spotted it.  A really tiny yarn shop!  I mean tiny, too.  Outside it, on a shelf were these 50g balls on the most gorgeous yarn I have ever seen in my entire life!  And they were reduced from £5.20 each to £2.60 each!  Awesome!  I was about to pick up at least one ball when something happened (that I won’t go into) and I ended up leaving the shopping centre without the yarn and in a rotten mood, swearing I would never go in again.  But the yarn was amazing!  I had to have it!

So last week I swallowed my pride and went in, specifically to get this particular yarn, the 8mm pins I needed and then I would leave.  She still had the yarn! Awesome!  There were only about 4 balls of the yarn altogether, and they were in 3 colours.  I picked up the blue one… and then spotted a greeny-coloured one. They were both very pretty!  I couldn’t decide which one I wanted the most. In the end, I got both of them!  It looks like this (sort of…!)  I would take a photo of the ones I bought, but my camera isn’t working at the moment.

 

It’s made with nylon, wool and polyester (and has little bits of foil/tinsel through it).  Its thickness changes throughout between thin and REALLY chunky.  Once you’re used to that, it knits really nicely.  If you have to frog it (and I have, a few times!), you have to tease it out, or you’ll end up in a right ol’ tangle!  The yarn and tinsel sheds a little, but it doesn’t spoil it.

I’m addicted to it already!  I tried my usual yarn shop and they don’t have it/can’t get it.  I tried online (using various links published in my growing pile of knitting magazines) and found most of the links either blocked or faulty.  It looks as though I may just have to buy it and get it shipped from Italy (which is probably going to cost me a fortune), which sucks a bit but if it means I get my yarn fix… well, you know how it is!

Pretty yarn…

A few weeks ago, a friend and I were in Glasgow, checking out a local art and craft shop.  We didn’t find anything in particular.  After we’d had lunch and she’d had to get home, I thought I’d wander up to John Lewis to see what they had.  They sometimes have some form of yarn in their Bargain Bin that’s cheap enough to practice new stuff and stitches with and not worry about making too much mess.

That was when I found just 1 ball of this:

Gorgeous, huh?  Yep!  I had to have it!  But here’s the problem… I have no idea what to do with it!  It needs to be something cool… but what?!

Ideas very much welcome!