From Wool to Waterhouse

I'm still in recovery mode today after a great weekend of extreme pleasures. LOL!  iKnit London was good, very good and a few little yarny purchases were made.  Sophie is very happy that I am going to knit her a bead Alpaca necklace.  I've already started on this earlier today and have strict instructions to finish it before returning to the Shetland Granny blanket.  The yarn is the softest British Alpaca ever and a lovely natural Biscuit and the beads are stuffed with the fleece fibre.  Sophie also got some Alpaca in Oatmeal for some cabled wrist warmers.  I might just have to visit this farm soon to see the lovely Toft Alpacas, although I think there are some up at Mundesley which you can walk through the fields.  I must look into this.

I bought some beautiful Unicorn and Angel yarn and a pattern from The Natural Dye Studio to make some crocheted lace weight scarves at some point.  Amanda gave me some helpful advice on joining the flowers on her Morgana scarf pattern.  I also managed to crochet a few more flowers on the train.

Then on to buy some Wensleydale DK :: a skein of dark chocolate for a pair of wrist warmers to match my winter jacket. I also picked up some buttons (photo top of this post) and woven ribbon from another stall.

 

The Circle and Victoria lines were closed and this somewhat disrupted our travel plans and so we bussed or taxied about London.  We met Jamie in Picadilly at Eros's statue and in a mad moment ditched the idea of lunch at our usual Italian restaurant and went to the Rainforest Cafe. Even though we sat near the gorillas and had a leopard nearby and wait for it: experienced at terrifying thunderstorm - it was great!!

Sophie loved the bar stools and decided to have her arm painted ::

 

After all of this excitement I went off for more thrills, to the RA for the Waterhouse exhibition and they went shopping along Regent Street stopping at Abercrombie and Fitch and then on to Sophie's Mecca :: Top Shop.  I planned to meet up with them in Liberty but that was not to be.  For the first time ever, I did not pre-book my tickets for an art exhibition and had to queue for 2 and a half hours.  It was worth it though to see, especially again, "The Lady of Shalott" in all it's splendour.  Somehow, my ornately framed print in our bedroom will never look the same.  Although for me, Millais' "Ophelia", "Autumn Leaves", Sophie Gray" and Holman Hunt's "The Light of the World" are still my favourites ever.

The weekend was rounded off with a small box of Macaroons from Ladurée, Picadilly.  Heavenly. Now what could be better than that?

Comments

[mrspao]

Sounds like a wonderful weekend.

[Liz]

Sounds like you had a wonderful weekend with a very delicious ending.

[Gemma]

I love all of your pictures - what a wonderful weekend! I can't wait to see the gorgeous new yarn knitted up :) Lots of fun to be had there x

[Petit Filoux]

A few purchases hey? You seem to have got quite a lot there! I love the alpaca yarn, it looks so soft and beautiful! I'm planning on buying some from a farm in Norfolk when we go there on holiday in a few weeks time. What are you planning on doing with the buttons, they're really cute

[Louise]

Well, what can I say! You seem to have crammed a whole week's worth of 'busy-ness' into one day! The buttons are lovely and the yarn and everything! I feel quite envious... Enjoy your crocheting!

[sheila]

Lovely post Zoe. I popped into I knit on Friday and was very tempted by the Toft Alpaca stall. I didn't have long there as I needed to meet daughters 3 and 4 for wedding stuff! Please do let me have your postal address so I can send you your giveaway goodies.

Have a great week.

Sheila