Unravel 2011

Today I went to Unravel, a knitting festival in Farnham.  I wanted to find some yarn to make my first cardigan, I wanted it to be just right and I find it hard to get the right colour on the internet (I also like squishing skeins).  I've decided that my first adult sized peice of clothing will be a February Lady Sweater.  It's a free pattern from Ravelry, thousands of people have made it so I have high hopes of being able to make it without many mistakes.

So I spent a very pleasant hour or so browsing all the stalls in the Farnham Maltings and squished many skeins.  I narrowed my search down to Fyberspates, so many lovely colours and I've already made a scarf for my Mum at Christmas using their sport-weight navy yarn, so I knew it was lovely to work with.  Jenny on the stall noticed me umming and ahhing over two colours, blue teal and water, she came over to help me.  I decided on blue teal as it was the brighter of the two and before I had time to change my mind I'd bought 5 skeins.

It really is lovely, squishable yarn and I can't wait to get started.  This photo makes it look very blue, but it really is more turquoise.

You may spot a sneaky purple skein on the left, that was chosen for a special project which I'll tell you all about later.