A Fine Day Out

Today we ventured into The Big City to visit the Knitting Loft, a yarn shop and Country Clothesline, a fabric shop.

MaryK and our driver, Poppy were our trusty companions. My, what an amazing assortment of quality yarns they have! 

Ernest and Veronica (our newest little buddy) posed for the photo shoot.

All I came away with was a ball of bear-coloured DKweight yarn. What ever will I knit with it???

After lunch we headed to Country Clothesline off O'Connor in East York. It's not a big shop but it has lots of Liberty of London, Tilda, Wm Morris, etc. fabrics.

There also lots and lots of fat quarters - tastefully arranged by colour palette.

I bought a 'scrap bag' which had 1.5 yards of random widths of fabrics.

Inside were 11 WOF strips ranging between 3.5" and 5.5" wide. They'd be great for EPP, backing stitched projects, small checkerboard projects, etc.

I picked up some snips on sale and a pack of Tilda fabric-covered buttons. 

They'd be cute decorating little sewn items: biscornus, pincushions, pillows, etc.

I thought they'd work well with anything from this charm pack I also purchased.

After a lovely day of shopping and camaraderie Poppy skillfully drove us back home.

It truly was a fine day out.