I went to a yarn show

 We were up early on Saturday to pack up the caravan, It had rained quite heavily on Friday afternoon and Mark wasn't looking forward to taking a wet awning down the next day, but luckily It was bright and sunny with a breeze, so by the time we had packed up our stuff the awning had dried out.

I left him to it at that point as I had decided to go to this years Sodbury Yarn Over in.  I haven't been to a yarn festival for a few years and this one is held in various buildings along the high street in a beautiful picturesque market town with the wonderful name of Chipping Sodbury.  

The event is quite small in comparison to some and as it was spread over different buildings it never felt too crowded.  I arrived just around lunchtime which was perfect in hindsight as a lot of people had either been and gone or had stopped for lunch.  In the Town Hall there were places you could have a sit down and somewhere to buy tea/coffee but all along the high street are various coffee shops, pubs and places to grab something to eat, so fighting to get a seat wasn't a problem, and of course It also meant that the towns shops and eateries benefitted from the extra visitors too.

I made a list and I think I did ok.

The shawl set was from Under the Olive Tree and wasn't on my list but when I saw the sample knitted up I fell in love with texture pattern and how the colours worked together.  I won't start it straight away, I think perhaps over the Summer as it's not a big project.  There is a yarn shop in the town, The Wool Cellar, which is owned by one of the organisers of the festival, and It's where I purchased the Stylecraft Re-create yarn.  I've been wanting to make another Salty Air Tee, I love the one I made last year and I've worn It lot.  I would have preferred cotton yarn but couldn't find anything I liked, the Re-create yarn isn't too woolly but I've gone out of my comfort zone with the green, it's not a colour I wear a lot, but I do like it ,so we'll see.

  I can recommend the festival If you don't have to travel too far.  It took me an hour to drive there and an hour and a half to get home).  If I had travelled more than that I don't really think It would have been worth it for the number of vendors that were there, but that's just my opinion, having said that, I really enjoyed my day, the town Is lovely, everything was within easy walking distance and there were some nice shops to mooch round too.

When I got home Mark had unpacked all our things and put everything away and had made a start on some of the washing, (see there was a method to my madness, as my mum used to say. ha ha)

Yesterday was spent getting up to date with the rest of the washing and getting the garden tidied and the grass cut, the weather was good again so we were able to get everything done.

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