Looking forward and back - Perth Festival of Yarn 2018

I'm really looking forward to  Perth Festival of Yarn.

This year's event will be held at The Dewars Centre in Glover Street in Perth on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th September 2018 from 10am to 5 pm each day.

 As if spending the day in the company of like-minded friends surrounded by yarn, yarn and more glorious yarn wasn't exciting enough - it's my first official outing as a blogger!  I wrote this post after last year's outing to  Perth Festival of Yarn.  Eva , the organiser and all round festival champion, kindly asked me back again this year so I can blether about it some more.

So I thought I'd start my personal festival build up with a little look back at my 2017 purchases - and what has become of them.

Let's begin with the turquoise skein...

I began knitting a replacement shawl for my sister with the turquoise skein from Kingfishersblue, a haberdashery and yarn store in Leith which was vending at Perth.  She loves turquoise!

(The tale of woe about the first shawl I knitted her, also turquoise, is detailed here.  I'm clearly NOT over this yet.)

I knitted another On The Edge Shawl for her by The Knitting Goddess.   One skein projects make great holiday knitting so I took it on holiday to Lisbon last October and presented the finished shawl in person to my sis when she came to visit me in November.  This is a lovely shawl pattern and you can see I'm wearing mine here too (and in my profile picture) as I love it so much!

My biggest purchase of the day, the beautiful 400g skein of Blue Moon Indigo Eclipse, dyed expertly by Lindsay Roberts aka The Border Tart, became my first finished object of  2018.  During January, I knitted the flecked sky blue double knitting wool into my second Peppered Top as I really like this pattern by Katya Frankel. 

I'm quite unable to behave seriously whilst taking a selfie!

My wee fabric pot from Wool-n-Wood was crafted in Malawi and sold in Scotland by community nurse, Lesley, to support artisan workers in that part of Africa.  It started off as a place to keep knitting notions but has found its true calling in the living room as home to our TV remotes!

I do use my pretty shawl pin from Couthie Designs to secure this shawl but have to admit I've yet to make my Dorset button decoration from the kit I bought from Tanya, TJ Frog.  Perhaps writing this blog post is just the nudge I need to get started!

Though I haven't made anything yet with this beautiful rainbow of mini-skeins from My Mama Knits, I have found a pattern I like for this wrap.  I need a self colour to go with my minis and am sure I'll find something suitable at this year's Perth Festival of Yarn as there are so many lovely yarn vendors attending.

So that's a round-up of all of my purchases from Perth Festival of Yarn in 2017.

Now I need to focus on what I wish to buy this year - and that'll be the subject of my next blog post!