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!