I finally made it the KLYS (kinda local yarn store) today, The Wool Shop in Surrey Hills. What did I buy? Well, I finally bought a contrast colour for the collar of the Jo Sharp Ribbed Wrap Jacket.

Just as a reminder, it looks like this:

And these were the colours I had to choose from. I liked the suggestions in the comments of either white, blue or raspberry. But in person I found the white was a bit disappointing because, being white on white, the lovely silk fleck characteristic was lost. The raspberry was nice, but a bit ‘lolly’ next to the grey. Putting the blue next to the grey made it obvious they grey tended to the warm side, and the blue just looked wrong with it.

But, to my surprise, there was another, slightly lighter grey on the shelves. Not a different lot number, but a new colour.

The difference was subtle (and hard to photograph) but enough to work.

I also picked up the Cleckheaton Bamboo pattern book. I have ten balls of white, and want to make the little white jacket third from the end of those shown on the link page.

But the weather has been so cool here lately that I’ll probably save it until next spring.