Anyway, the other day I had to go down to the town centre for a few bits and pieces and dropped into one of the charity shops for a look around. I was about to wander back out again when I spotted some mixed bags of wool, and when I investigated them I found not the usual charity shop acrylic or (horrors!) eyelash yarn but this:
H&O Shetland Fleece by Templetons of Ayr.
And this:
'Falcon Llama 4-ply' which turns out to be neither falcon (ho ho) nor llama, but a rather nice 60% alpaca 40% wool. It's not a brand I've heard of or remember, and from Googling I can only find references to vintage knitting patterns, so I suspect this has been languishing in somebody's stash for years, as has the Templetons of Ayr wool - from a Google search on them I discovered that their mill in Mill St in Ayr was demolished in the 1980s.
I don't know what I'll do with them yet but they're absolutely lovely - just my kind of colours. Maybe another scarf from the 'Llama' - you can never have too many scarves can you?
5 comments:
Wow! Gold indeed!! Those colours would make nice hats too :D
Think perhaps you need to add 'hail' to the Smalls lists of redeeming-featureless parts of creation thats so far this end include midges and ticks!
Jealous I am!
Yowza! I NEVER find decent yarn at the charity shops here. Lucky you!
I like the sound of rain - particularly when I'm in bed at night. Even hail, if it is very small, and sparse, can sound fun - as long as I'm safe indoors. The plink of hail on a car roof is very unsettling - makes me think of dings and dents.
Oh dear, I never commented back to you all - head full of fluff at the moment. Annie, I hadn't thought of hats. Scarletti midges were added to my list on Friday!
That was my best charity shop loot ever. I went back a few days later to see if there was anything else/anything I'd missed and there was no wool at all, the knitting locusts had descended, so I'm thinking I was doubly lucky to spot the wool at just the right time!
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