Tuesday 4 March 2014

Grumpy and Umpty


The last couple of weeks I have been a bit tired and had a lot on at work, so today I am feeling a little bit cross for no real reason. I even ripped down the scarf I had knitted up over the weekend and it was almost done too. Grump, grump, grump!

Don't worry love, I am sure that the Sisters of Mercy will reform.
I managed to get in a quick trip to Knit and Stitch in the Colliergate in York on Friday where I bought a lovely pattern book for Louisa Harding Yarns called "Fade to Grey". Cue 80's soundtrack, and indeed the patterns do have a bit of a romantic, gothic feel. I was particularly taken by the lovely purple wrap on the front.
I also had time to pop round the corner to Ramshambles and bought a couple of balls of wool to knit up a couple of the neck warmers that I knitted for Sprog before Christmas. The pattern for these is so nice and it is free! My favourite kind of pattern. You can find it on the ""In the Loop" blog. The original pattern is in French but if you scroll down you can download it in English too. Several people at work have knitted these and get compliments every time they were them and people are always asking Sprog where she got her's from. It is knitted on 60cm/5mm circular needles and takes about 150m/100g of wool in an Aran weight so it is nice for using up odd balls and makes for a cheap knit.

I bought myself some Aire Valley Aran from West Yorkshire Spinners in a russet/blue grey variegated colourway shade 862"Autumn Mix". I also bought a ball of King Cole Riot Chunky in shade 650- a lovely mix of blues and grey that will suit Sprog down to the ground.

This is such lovely wool. Hope Sprogzilla likes it.

In case you are of a certain age and think that this post title seems vaguely familiar I will leave you with a short video from The Flumps, a fixture of my childhood lunchtime TV consumption when I came home from school for lunch. Because today I am also under a cloud.
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2 comments:

  1. Curtise12 March 2014 at 21:12

    Grump away, it's fine. So, do you live in York? I'm a stone's throw away in Sheffield.
    Should I remember the Flumps? Maybe not, I was probably too old... xxx

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  2. Mother of Reinvention15 March 2014 at 10:36

    Thanks for the comment. I am just outside of York in the countryside at the moment for work but commute home at the weekends. Ooh, Sheffield is not far away. It looks nice from your blog. I think that I might be older than you so you should remember The Flumps. They looked like balls of wool and had northern accents. They were on in the early-to mid 70's. I still watch them as I bought Sprogzilla DVDs of classic childrens' telly from that era. Jamie and the Magic Torch was my favourite though.

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