As a follow on from my last post, I also got to indulge in some of my favourite forms of retail therapy on Thursday. Before we went to the Quilt Museum I had a quick browse in a couple of second hand bookshops and found these

The Quilt Museum has got a lovely shop and I bought a kit to make some 'Kaths Kubes' for the children with this lovely vintage style fabric.

In the evening I got to really indulge. As Dave was on holiday I was able to make it over to Baa Ram Ewe for their New Season Preview. The special guest this time was Susan Crawford and she talked us through the gorgeous designs in her new book 'A Stitch in Time 2' along with allowing us to try on her samples.

Of course I couldn't leave without shopping! Rosie had made a special request for me to knit her some green socks, so that yarn was top of the shopping list, I got some Alpaca Sock yarn in Moss from UK Alpaca. There was also some Merino Blend DK from King Cole to knit a top for Christopher and the indulgence of a skein of hand dyed Bluefaced Leicester Silk Lace for myself along with an Amy Butler skirt pattern.

We had a lovely day out yesterday. Rosie took her daddy to the Railway museum and as she was quite adamant that Mummy and Christopher were not to come we took the opportunity to visit the Quilt Museum.

There is no photography inside the Museum so I shall just leave you with some pictures from the gorgeous garden that was restored by the York Conservation Trust.

As always, apologies for the length of time between posts. It's the school holidays so my online time is even more limited than it is normally and so I'm way behind with my blog reading as well, so I hope you'll understand if I'm not commenting as much as I would like at the moment.

You may remember that back last September I did a 500th post giveaway offering to stitch a gift for the winner. That was Missy and a few weeks ago I heard that she had finally received her prize so I can now share it with you all.

I decided to stitch the 'Le temps qui passe' sewing pocket from A mon ami Pierre, it's stitched on 32 count Summer Khaki Linen with Gloriana silk in India Ink.

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