My Yarn Day! :)

Hi Everyone!

I hope you all enjoyed the weekend!  Mr. Twins is on holiday this week and he said it would be okay to go up to  Abakhan in Stoke-On-Trent to have a look at the Wool/Yarn. I still tend to call it Wool sorry....
Anyway,  we left about 9.30am and it took us about 1 1/2 hours to get there. I took advantage of the travelling time and took my first Flower Blanket with me, can't waste valuable time!!  I'm sure we all do it.... A sneak preview!!.....

When we arrived at Stoke-On-Trent  the ticket machine was out of order so we put a note in the Car window.  (Just thought I'd tell you that 'vital piece' of information ha.ha.!).

Anyway, Mr. Twins would not move without setting his sat nav to find the shop! I ask you what are they like? He stood there for a good 5 minutes setting the thing up. We were only 'walking' there! I kept saying theres no need for that.....It's only round the corner. So I got my way we walked without the  'sat nav'  and lo and behold we just had to walk up to Marks and Spencers turn left, turn right and the store was on the Corner.  What did I say? I told you so..... We really had a giggle about it, and he won't mind me telling you!! I can't blame him really because we had never been to Stoke-On-Trent before and he does like to know where he is going.

Anyway, we found the shop, walked in and I thought oh my goodness Mr. Twins has bought me all this way and the shop is awlful.  There was dress material, curtain material just thrown about anywhere. It was rather like when shops have sales and all the goods are just thrown about, you know what I mean! I do like order, do you? I do like everything to be in its proper place.  As you first went in there was a material department, buttons, bows etc.,  Then we walked into the Craft Department slightly more organised. Mr. Twins found the Wool Department. Well I was amazed at the stock they had in there.  I was just overcome with all those lovely 'woolly' feelings you get!

First of I looked at the bargain stands.  A lot of the wool I think was probably discontinued but most of it was buy one, get one free! Priced at £6.99 a bag of 12. Of course there were other ones which were not, and they were £7.99 for a bag of 12.

I bought these balls.....I've taken a photo to show you.  Now as I have said to Pilar, Elizabeth Cat and many others I haven't really seen much of this stuff in the local Hobby Craft so to me it was 'gold'. It really does make such a lot of difference to Squares I think (even though you know I love ALL Squares I have to say).

I took lots of time to look around they had a really good selection of Wool there, but I didn't buy anymore. Well when I say 'I', I have to say I didn't buy it......Can you guess who bought it for me?  My Dear Hubby Mr. Twins said he wanted to treat me!! It was such a big bag  of Wool too! Wanna see? It's our 27th Wedding Anniversary on Friday and it was a pressie from him to me.

We got back in to the Car and everything was okay, no parking ticket or anything so we set back on our way. We travelled on to Bakewell where the tarts come from and found a lovely little Tea Shop called 'Lavender Tea Rooms'

 where we had this.........

Beautiful piece of Bakewell Tart and a nice cup of English Tea in a nice China cup and Saucer! The Waitress was dressed up and so was the Waiter and they had Antiques displayed on the walls which you could actually buy. You know the sort of things Old Mirrors, China plates, display items.......

After the refreshments and looking round the shops we walked on down past the river......

back to the car.  I have to say it was a lovely day out together.  We don't go out too much these days on our own there is always something going on back at home.  Would I go again to Abakhan? I would for the Wool definitely.  I thought a really good variety of Wool and very reasonably priced.  Of course you can visit their web site because you can order on-line.

I did some Crocheting on the way back too until I fell asleep in the car, but when I got back there was a surpise in my porch! Now if you want to know what it was, a clue is 'something to do with SIBOL!'.  So if you want to know you'll have to pop over to my 'spin-off' blog  SIBOL and take a look for yourselves!

I had to wear my jumper today because I was freezing!

Bye for now,