{"id":79,"date":"2005-10-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/the-obligatory-ally-pally-post\/"},"modified":"2005-10-25T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T17:00:00","slug":"the-obligatory-ally-pally-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/the-obligatory-ally-pally-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The obligatory Ally Pally post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Better late than never I suppose!
My parents came down to stay for the week, so that Mummy could come along to Ally Pally<\/a> too. They live in North Yorkshire, and I am deeply jealous that she is going to the show in Harrogate as well, but unfortunately I am busy that weekend. Anyway, we went on the Thursday which was very crowded for most of the day but did thin out a bit about an hour from the end.<\/p>\n

I thought the knitting selection was much better this year than it has been previously, there were a lot of stands, and a lot of variety. I was really quite restrained \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Our first stop was Get Knitted<\/a> where I bought yet more sock yarn \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> From left to right, this is: two skeins of Cherry Tree Hill, two skeins of Lucy Neatby Celestial Merino, and a skein of Fyberspates. I have been eyeing the Fyberspates and the Celestial Merino on the Get Knitted web site for some time now and they are even more beautiful in person.<\/p>\n

I also got a skein of Lorna’s Laces Lion and Lamb from Get Knitted. The colour way is Irving Park, and I am going to make one of the Curly Whirly scarves from the free pattern Get Knitted are doing if you buy a skein of LL Lion and Lamb, or Shepherd Worsted.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was really nice to be able to feel all the Lorna’s Laces yarns, I have only played with the Shepherd Sock before and wasn’t sure what the others would be like. They are all incredibly soft, and I can see will be dangerous to my credit card in future. <\/p>\n

I also found the following little gems at Kaalund<\/a>. They had the most beautiful range of colours, I think these are going to become a pair of scarves.<\/p>\n

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And last but not least, I got some of the 2ply from House of Hemp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> The room House of Hemp was in was incredibly hot and the lights weren’t particularly good for seeing the colours of the yarns which was a bit of a shame but the temperature was fine in the main hall.<\/p>\n

All in all a fantastic day was had, we met up with some family friends for lunch which was lovely, and I bumped into quite a few fellow bloggers, including Mary<\/a> and Dawn<\/a>, and Mary and Janine from the Surrey knitting group, and Rosie who I took a workshop with a couple of months ago. I’m off to stroke the yarn again … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Better late than never I suppose!My parents came down to stay for the week, so that Mummy could come along to Ally Pally too. They live in North Yorkshire, and I am deeply jealous that she is going to the show in Harrogate as well, but unfortunately I am busy that weekend. Anyway, we went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}