fourth edition

We went to the 3D/2D Craft Fair today. Having recently visited survived the Crafts For Scotland/Hobbycrafts, I was wary of visiting today’s fair but came away quite impressed. Not only does this craft fair have superior quality control, they are also far more diverse whilst remaining local. Unlike Hobbycrafts you don’t have navigate around bowls filled with glitters or squeeze through packs of people fighting over grossly overpriced novelty yarn. I greatly appreciate that.

Anyway, excuse my crap photos.

I like owls a great deal - both because of their association with Athena (the Greek goddess of wisdom and knowledge) and the far more contemporary piece of pop culture that is “Twin Peaks”. The owls are not what they seem, you know. So I spotted this pin and loved it on sight.

Sadly I didn’t get the vendor’s details. He had some ace ceramic flying ducks with rather wonderfully quirky expressions.

My loot also bears testament to my continuing button obsession: these are handmade by Pat Longmuir of ‘Paraphernalia’ who does commissions too.

I recently bought some über-lovely Berocco Ultra Alpaca in the “Moonshadow” shade. I once said that I wasn’t overly concerned with yarn I couldn’t buy in this country because I’d always be able to find suitable substitutions. I was clearly wrong because I’m now deeply in love with the Ultra Alpaca and the only substitution I can find is twice the price for yard yardage - and in limited colourways too. Le sigh. Anyway. Pat’s buttons might just be earmarked for that yarn..

PS. I’m doing NaBloPoMo in case you’re wondering. That means the ’self-indulgent knitting plus random linkage’ to ‘brainy stuff, you know’ ratio is going to be horribly skewed. Just warning you.