I closed the shop the other week for the first time since I opened it on 4 July and had a wonderful week in Crete. It was brilliant to see the sun even if it was only for 1 week.

I, even managed to persuade my husband to take a trip out to the hills because I saw some interesting photos of ladies spinning and weaving. We found ourselves in the town of Annoya (probably Spelt wrong!) and wandered around looking for ladies spinning. Eventually I found 2 old ladies with beautifully woven rugs and tried  by sign language to ask whether they spun the yarn and what type of loom they used to weave the rugs with.

Eventually I showed them my knitting that I had in the car. (I'm still knitting Lima using Mirasol Sulka). They thought the yarn was very beautiful, then showed me the natural brown yarn ( I think goat) that they were using. I gave them a small amount of money and the old ladies got quite agitated and insisted that I go with them to see their loom which is featured in the photos and then kindly gave me another large skein of brown coloured goat! What I'm going to do with it I don't know! But as usual I have come back from holiday with new yarn!