A sprinkling of snow on the fields and rocks behind our farm let us know that winter has finally arrived!

On a dark gloomy day, I was glad that it was the day I'd organised for Val Grainger, the Woolly Shepherd to come to the shop to demonstrate peglooming.

She is always so cheerful and full of fun. As you can see in the photos mounds of soft fleece were piled up on the table and it was time to be adventurous and make a wondeful textured bag.

As usual I was buying. I couldn't resist taking some skeins of the brilliantly coloured Banana yarn.

I'm getting quite a collection of unusual yarns now that the new Rowan spring yarns have arrived.

I've already started knitting up the Bamboo Tape and it is wonderfully soft. I've chosen Mitsu from the new Bamboo Tape book. Its the first time I've knitted a type of ribbon yarn and I'm really enjoying it.

The Bamboo Soft yarn is just like Silk but much cheaper.

I've also bought some Luxury cotton and Damask yarns.

The new Rowan Books have so many patterns in them that I want to knit! They only arrived yesterday and I've already sold a few copies.