Last year I spent 2 months travelling around the UK, and while I didn’t have to buy an extra suitcase, I did buy a fair bit of yarn. After I returned home I didn’t buy any for nearly four months. Not one ball. Strangely, this yarn diet wasn’t intentional. I tried to buy yarn a couple of times, but something always prevented me. I was outbid on E-bay, a trip to Bendigo was cancelled, that sort of thing.

Then in January I bought some rather uninspiring machine cones from the op shop and the diet ended. The dam didn’t exactly break, however. I ordered the wool for the Liquorish Allsorts jumper, and some teal Zhivago that was on super special at Spotlight. Then there was the Zara on Wednesday. And today I dropped into Wondoflex…

Sock wool. Like I need more sock wool. But this is beautiful (heard that before, haven’t we?). It’s a lush black with red flecks – hard to see in this pic. And I decided to do the next pair with the two circular method, so I bought a pair of 2mm circs.

I didn’t visit Wondo for sock wool, however. I wanted to have a look at the Ashford Knitter’s Loom (see link in previous post). I’d emailed Ashford to ask if anyone sold them in Melbourne, and was directed to Wondo. However, it turns out that Wondo will order them in for you, but they don’t have any in the shop.

Of course, I’m not going to spend $240 on something I haven’t even had a look at, so I didn’t order one. The nice lady who served me suggested I contact the Handweavers and Spinners Guild to see if any members have one I can look at.

And the trip definitely wasn’t wasted, as Seniors Art is next door to Wondo, and my main reason for the shopping trip was that I was searching for a french-style easel. They had a highly recommended brand of easel on sale at $100 off, so I got myself a bargain!