Following On.......................

The perfect project for me at the moment is then a blanket, I’ve now got 3 on the go, the Mystery Blanket ’10, a small one from a Sublime booklet 600 and now Fish from Debbie Abrahams book.

I have had such a lovely time sourcing the discontinued Rowan Glace yarns and speaking with some utterly delightful people all of whom helped hugely. Firstly Debbie herself who has promised to send 4 balls of Hyacinth, beads and sequins (when she’s down off of cloud 9 after her wedding on Saturday) to a gentleman in Ilkley Yorkshire who climbed ladders to see if he did have two balls of Tickle!! I began my search in Surry at The Yarn House, where, I bought one ball of the Hyacinth – in case Debbie is away a while. I next found Tickle at Create with Wool in Ilkley via their on-line shop but when I rang a kind young man discovered that they didn’t actually have it after all but they did have 6 balls of Pier another hard to find colour. I got a call the next morning from a lovely lady who wanted to check if I minded that one ball of Pier was from a different dye lot. At this stage I cared not a hoot. She then went on to talk with me for ages about our love of knitting, creativity in general and we discussed Debbie and her wedding.

I then was relieved to find 2 balls of Tickle (the exact requirements) on eBay and received them promptly 2 days later – thank God for PayPal. I sourced Buttercup on the website of British Yarn a ball of Ecru in my stash (left over from knitting Afternoon Tea) and finally bought the rest from Liberties.

Of course I then photocopied and laminated the pattern then found my wonderful 3mm blue Signature needles and started – the results speak for themselves.