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The Bluefaced Weekend at Mickle Trafford was fantastic. Lots of lovely knitters and lots and lots of scrummy yarn; even with just a few stalls I found myself bamboozled with choice yet again.  Bought waaay too much but boy was it fun. I bought 5 skeins just from Posh yarn Catherine - Colourway - Sent to Coventry - Heavy Laceweight - 100% Organic Merino Olivia Lace - Orphan - 100% Mulberry Silk Megan - Orphan - Sock Weight - 100% Superwash BFL 2 Skeins Gretchen 2ply - House On The Mountain - 55% superwash BFL, 45% silk. Provisionally I'm thinking of making an Oregon Coast Cardigan Now the rest of the yarn! Babylonglegs Radiance Sock - 100% Pure Wool - to make a Marin And two lots from easyknits ; I could have bought lots from here. The colours are just so bright and saturated! Right up my street. Finally settled on just these two. Deeply Wicked - Electric Dreams - 75% Superwash Merino, 25% Nylon  Deeply Wicked - Midnight Forrage (sic) - 100% Superwash Merino Restocked my...

Another fantastic year at Woolfest; despite the exceedingly rainy conditions it was still a wonderful day. It was bigger this year with lots of new stalls. I found it quite overwhelming with the vast array of choice and ideas. My haul was quite large this year. I headed straight for Kate Davies stall and bought the kit for the Sheep Carousel Tea Cosy and also intended to buy the BMC  kit but were already sold out within an hour of opening! I tried to start the Tea Cosy on the way home in the car to quickly realise the one size needle I didn't have was a 3.00mm 16 inch circular; which is extremely frustrating when you've just left a big wool show. I also got Ysolda Teague's Saturday Treat pattern book and some Scrumptious laceweight yarn in Treacle Toffee to make Barley Sugar from the Fyberspates stall.     I bought a dyeing kit from D & T and a bundle of unknown yarn on offer from bluefaced.com A pretty batt and a faux cashmere roving from feltstudiouk I bought...