Confession Time!

Don’t set up a yarn shop if you love yarn. Don’t set up a yarn shop if you love shopping.

I had a good excuse to visit the Knitting show at Ally Pally this year. After all, as a new and proud shop owner I had every excuse to attend & visit all the stands of the yarns that I stock.

Before I drove to London, I walked around the shop and decided that I had loads of stock to sell and didn’t need to buy at all.

 Still it would be fun just to look around.           

Of course, first of all I had to visit the Touchyarns stand and introduce myself to Marnie the talented creator of my favourite Touchyarns skeins. I had no problem finding their wonderful colourful stand as soon as Iarrived. As it was the last day of the show, Marnie asked if I would be interested in buying whatever was left over at the end of the show. Silly question! How could I resist all those beautiful skeins and hand dyed yarns!

The show was great fun. I was thrilled to meet Debbie Bliss and Nicky from Rooster Yarns. I also met Sue of Get Knitted along with Lucy Neatby, who was helping out on Sue’s stand.

 I was attracted to Swiss company Lang’s stand and when their head designer Tom showed me their wonderful patterns and yarn, I was very tempted to order.

Needless to say when Tom visited Spin A Yarn last week on his tour around the West country, I ordered lots of Langs beautiful stock. This arrived yesterday  and I now have a dilemma. Where do I put it? My shop is full!  

I think I will have to plunder a bamboo arch from home. Can't fit it into the car.

What will I do next. Watch this space!

You're wondering what Katie's blog is about. Katie is my daughter and newish knitter. She is already knitting a beautiful sweater in Noro Silk Garden but doesn't have much time because she is studying a master's in Zoo Conservation Biology at Plymouth.

What she really wants to be though is an Animal presenter. with this aim in  mind she is training these cute little pigs to do tricks and filming them.

She will be telling you all about them in her Blog.