The perfect knitterly weekend

I've been putting off this post because I'm scared that my words won't do the event justice.  But last weekend (17-18 May 2014) as my ultimate knitterly dream weekend.

It started with breakfast on Saturday.  D and I rolled out of bed (a little late) to run a few errands before heading to our favourite local cafe for breakfast.  En route, I found the perfect scarf - I'm obsessed with this colour at the moment.  I'm not sure what it's called - magenta? pinkey-purple? I'm not sure but I'm obsessed... so I've been looking for a scarf or cardigan in this colour for weeks and finally I found something within my price range.  This chevron beauty (pictured with the other colours I'm obsessed with at the moment) only set me back $20!

Then we went to breakfast (which was DELICIOUS), and then we sat at the cafe for ages doing this:

After a few hours of hanging out at home, I left D at home to study and I hopped into the car to Canberra where my incredible friends not only let me stay the night, but they took me out for a belated birthday dinner:

Then there was the knitting:

But the real festivities started the next morning when, bright eyed and bushy tailed, we went to the Old Bus Depot Markets' Celebration of Wool Day!  The Old Bus Depot Markets are an old favourite of mine.  They open every Sunday in Kingston and sell a great combination of food, plants, handmade goods and other knick nacks. Once a year around May, the have a special Celebration of Wool Day which sees yarn vendors from around the region to come and sell their wares.  It's basically the closest thing to a sheep and wool festival that we get in this area and this year, it did not disappoint!

In fact, I had so much fun, I didn't end up with that many photos - but here is a collage of a few that I took (very last minute as we were on our way home):

And of course, we could not resist buying some lovlies to bring home (unfortunately that's our combined haul - so only the Paris bag, the navy and pinkey purple sock yarn and fibre came home to Sydney with me):

Those bags are made by the amazing and talented Michelle of Buttontree Lane and you can might be able to get one here.  The navy, pinkey purple (yeap, it's that colour again) yarn, the red yarn and those cute stitch markers (sitting on top of the hedgehog bag) were from Little Plum Yarns (who had a table full of incredibe colours - I had to physically restrain myself from buying more)... You can get some here. The pink yarn right off in the distance is Quince and Co which is exclusively sold in Australia at one of my favourite yarn stores - Suzy Hausfrau.  I did also get a little spinning fibre but I'm not sure who the vendor was... and I'm also not sure what type of fibre it was - it was just labelled as "wool".

And because we managed to find some spinning fibre, we decided that I should have a whirl on my friend's spinning wheel!  My very first spinning experience (unfortunately that's not a picture of me spinning - that's my amazing friend setting up her wheel for me to try):

To be honest, I wasn't totally enamoured my spinning... I think I'll stick with knitting for now, but I'm glad I tried it and I might try it again in the future, maybe when I have a little more bandwidth and a little less knitting mojo.

Speak of knitting mojo, it was running HIGH after the market so we popped on a movie (Midnight in Paris) and got knitting:

Of course there was a long and boring drive home, but the entire time, I was kept company by some of my favourite podcasts: Down Cellar Studios, The Knitmore Girls, Prairie Girls Knit and Spin and The Knit Girllls (who I sometimes just listen to instead of "watch"). 

As knitterly weekends go, it was pretty much perfect...

Oh, and that blue knitting you keep seeing in pictures, that's D's Brownstone... it's going well *touch wood* :)

XOXO
Bee