A knitting friend, fellow blogger and Ravelry buddy, Michele, pointed this out to me......
She saw this ad in Ravelry and clicked thru - try it!
Thanks so much Michele for sending me this....I'll put a link to it from my Hibiscus Cardi page on She Ewe Knits.
Happy Knitting!
If you are a member of the Rowan International Club.....I was a member years ago, let it lapse, just joined again......you'll know that you get a free gift from Rowan (Westminster Fibres) each year.
This year it's a lovely scarf pattern - actually two scarf patterns - one lace one cabled - and yarn.
On Ravelry the Rowan Knitters group have been swapping their yarn if they didn't like the shade they received....so I was anxious to see what I'd get.....beige would have been too blah, brown would have been so typical for me!, red would have been awful.......I got a lovely shade of Turquoise -- sorry, but I seem to have lost the photo....so instead....
Wht do you think of this photo? I've been playing around with Photoshop Elements....
Happy Knitting!
Hi there!
Big sale going on over at She Ewe Knits......old skein format Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift, new format balls of Spindrift - select shades on sale, some leftover Simply Shetland yarns, old patterns.
Yes, I'm clearing out.........She Ewe Knits will close as a yarn retailer. I've been debating this for the past year....and after 8 years of internet yarn retailing, I've decided it's time to move on. There are many reasons.....bottom line is I've decided it's time to move on to other things.
Like this....
Here she is cutting the armhole steek on a child's sweater.
You know what it's like when you are waiting for a big event.........we'd been in London 3 days and had enjoyed ourselves immensely......this was our 4th day.....the day before the big day.....and although I was having a great time.....in a way I wanted to hurry up and get Thursday over with.......Note to self: Live in the Moment LOL!!!
So, Thursday am we wandered over to the Royal Horticultural Halls and Conference Centre to do a reconnoiter of the logistics. Couldn't see anything unusual - big double doors to enter....it was only a 5 minute walk from our Hotel (that was why we picked our hotel) and would be easy to get to on Friday morning -- we (er I) wanted to be there early!!!!
Then we spent the day in the area of "The Embankment" by the Thames - Westminster Abbey, walked around the Pariament Buildings.
Got this great shot of "the eye" which shows you just how huge it is!
Then we did some more yarn shopping at....
On Wednesday, we decided to explore Covent Garden. A short tube ride and we were there. It seemed like we'd just started walking when from the corner of my eye I spotted a familiar logo.......honestly, I didn't know it was there........
A Radley store -- full of Radley bags of all shapes, sizes and colours! Of course, one had to come home with me.
Don't know what a Radley bag is? Well, here's a link to the Radley web page.
A little further on we saw a sign for the London Transport Museum......for a tour of the history of the London Transport system....from the days of horse drawn carriages - to today.
After the Transport Museum, I felt that a little yarn shop visiting was in order........
See the Radley shopping bag? While I was looking around I Knit London, DH was happy -- after having something to drink in the "I Knit" shop, he went back down the road to the Ian Allan shop just over the road and down a bit -- Ian Allan being the biggest specialist book publisher in the UK - so DH was happy checking out the railway books!
After a quick trip back to the hotel to freshen up, drop off my Radley, and put our feet up for an hour.......back to Covent Garden for dinner -- and to the theatre!
THE MOUSETRAP, by Agatha Christie
We'd seen this play in Toronto, where it ran for 25 years, closing in January 2004. Being Agatha Christie fans, we had to see "The Mousetrap" while in London, where this play has been running for 58 consecutive years! We saw the 23,663 show.
Don't ask me "who done it" - we were sworn to secrecy!
We had to walk over the Millenium Bridge........have you seen the latest Harry Potter where this bridge is destroyed in the opening??????
Alan, ever the engineer, had a good look at how it was constructed. Then we got our tickets for.....
The London Eye -- We met a lovely couple from California who asked me to take their photo - and they took ours in return.
I had to show of "The Knitter" Issue 9 which I'd picked up earlier that day in Victoria Station.
You can't believe how big this thing is -- each pod holds about 30 people and it moves so slowly -- those are the Parliament buildings at the top right of this photo.
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