A day in Darlington

Every couple of months Mr FF travels down to Darlington for business meetings and I go with him. I'm not too keen on the early start but I do get some travel knitting done. He usually drops me off in the town just before 10 and I head straight for a coffee. His colleagues are amazed that I can occupy myself for a whole day but I love walking round the streets in and out of shops and if I get bored with that there are museums and a library to discover.

Wednesday is usually meetings day which is unfortunate as that's the day A Fine Yarn is closed but this last time we went down on Thursday. So I headed into the covered market, had a nice long chat with Christine, the owner, and came away with another ball of Trekking that I might use to knit a baby jumper

and this gorgeous cashmere from The Knitting Goddess who is based on the Isle of Wight, the colour is Dog Rose and its beautiful. Christine did offer to wind it for me and post it on, its going to take me hours because the yarn is incredibly fine but I didn't want to let it out of my hands. I came away with a pattern for a shawl and am assured that one skein will be enough.

I had a look in the Oxfam shop and they were selling baby clothes 3 for £1. I bought three rather horrible and worn out knitted cardigans because each had gorgeous buttons, look I got all these aren't they lovely.

So with the wool from Italy that's the stash replenished and I really need to do some knitting.