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Other Goodies From London
March 17, 2005
I have already showed off the yarn I bought for Gemma when I went to London last weekend, but didn't get round to posting about the other things. I also bought yarn for Elspeth:
Neither John Lewis or Liberty had the colour I wanted in stock, but the lady in John Lewis phoned up other branches until she found one that did have my colour, and then they posted it to me for FREE! Well the yarn wasn't free of course, but the postage was - very kind I thought. I bought the same colour as they used in the magazine - Powder Puff, which the lady described as "knicker pink"! Here's my 4 balls:
It's a lovely old fashioned pink, not a colour I'd usually go for, but I really like it and hope I look nice in it!
I wasn't planning on buying any fabric (I have SO MUCH fabric right now - I'll have to go over it in another post to make myself look bad and motivate me!), but I had a quick peek in John Lewis, and they had some lovely chocolate brown linen with a flower print. It looks like the sort of thing you'd see as a skirt in Monsoon for like £60 or something, so I bought a metre (£10) to make myself a skirt. Here it is:
I'm 2/3 along on Roxie's second sleeve, so will finish it and start seaming tonight! I see finished Roxie photos early next week - hooray!
Posted by jen at March 17, 2005 11:46 AM
Comments
I saw thta fabric last time i was in JL and loved it. The colour for Elspeth is great as well, I'm not sure what colour I'm going to use yet. It looks like it matches the pink in the cord fabric really well, or is that just my monitor?
Posted by: kerrie at March 18, 2005 02:45 PM