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Jan. 10th, 2006 04:23 pmI love my work!
This morning, my coworker JG said, "Remind me I have something for you when you have a minute." When I had a minute, it was into the afternoon and I had just finished my lunch. And JG, bless her, bless her, bless her, produced a bag of nineteen 50-gram skeins of Falkland Islands Wool in the classic cream aran colour. I nearly fainted.
She'd bought the stuff years ago at a Knitting and Stitching show at the Ally Pally (the same one![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aunty_marion took me to in October of 2004 but was kind enough not to take me back to this year), said she hadn't knitted in ages, and figured the wool was just waiting for the proper sort of knitter to appreciate it. She even lent two books of patterns from the company that produced the wool, in case there were any vagueries of tension.
Whoa. :)
I don't know if the stuff is even sold anymore; a Google search yielded several hits to places that produce wool in the Falklands, one of which was even called Falkland Islands Wool, but I didn't see any photos of labels, so I can't be sure. It's from The Falkland Islands Agency in Somerset. Anyway, it's 100% wool, aran/worsted weight, and it looks round and lofty and delicious. And it's coming home with me! Me, me, me! Now I just have to work out who might need a jumper of such delicious wool. The cream colour is quite traditional for an aran, but this wool could definitely be dyed; it looks to be naturally finished (I haven't touched it yet; it's behind its little plastic curtain)
This morning, my coworker JG said, "Remind me I have something for you when you have a minute." When I had a minute, it was into the afternoon and I had just finished my lunch. And JG, bless her, bless her, bless her, produced a bag of nineteen 50-gram skeins of Falkland Islands Wool in the classic cream aran colour. I nearly fainted.
She'd bought the stuff years ago at a Knitting and Stitching show at the Ally Pally (the same one
aunty_marion took me to in October of 2004 but was kind enough not to take me back to this year), said she hadn't knitted in ages, and figured the wool was just waiting for the proper sort of knitter to appreciate it. She even lent two books of patterns from the company that produced the wool, in case there were any vagueries of tension.Whoa. :)
I don't know if the stuff is even sold anymore; a Google search yielded several hits to places that produce wool in the Falklands, one of which was even called Falkland Islands Wool, but I didn't see any photos of labels, so I can't be sure. It's from The Falkland Islands Agency in Somerset. Anyway, it's 100% wool, aran/worsted weight, and it looks round and lofty and delicious. And it's coming home with me! Me, me, me! Now I just have to work out who might need a jumper of such delicious wool. The cream colour is quite traditional for an aran, but this wool could definitely be dyed; it looks to be naturally finished (I haven't touched it yet; it's behind its little plastic curtain)
