After baring my soul and confessing to overspending on knitting lovelies, fate decided to tempt me…..with free tickets to Unravel!

Unravel is an independent Festival of Knitting, held in Farnham, Surrey. Here’s a link to find out more –>>Unravel Festival

So where did I get free tickets? First, I checked out the free online event registration software and I won a competition run by Purl Alpaca – creators of the lovely Icon dress and Esme  on Twitter. I was so thrilled – I had never won a competition like that before 😀

Farnham is quite a long drive away – about  one and a half hours, but boy, was it worth it!

The show is in a craft centre which is a  beautiful converted Oast house and buildings, decorated with cute, yarn giving beasts…

Inside was room after room of fabulousness. It was very crowded (I went Saturday morning) and there were a lot of stairs. I probably wouldn’t recommend this show for anyone with walking difficulties, But the was so much to see. Everywhere I looked there were stand from independent producers with sumptuous, high quality products. Evey time I though I’d seen everything, there was another room to explore.

It wasn’t all knitting either, I was fascinated by the spinning stands too.**No Susan! You cannot take up another hobby!**

I did try and take photos but  the crowds and my wobby phone camera didn’t do the day justice…

First I had to go say, “Hello and Thank you” to Kari-Helene and Tracey on the Purl Alpaca stand.

They were especially pleased to see that I had worn my completed Honesty to show off for them – They had to take a snap!

So did I weaken and buy even more yarn?

I’m ashamed to say I did 😳

I felt it would be rude not to buy something from Purl Alpaca (great excuse huh!) so I treated myself to their Hero Boot Cuff kit.

Then I fell victim to the Stitch in Time stand. You might remember I knit a sample for both of the volumes of the Stitch in Time books  -I blogged about it here ->> Top Secret – Declassified

This was the garment…

From Top Secret

And here –>> A Stitch in Time volume 2

With this garment.

From Top Secret 2

So – I had the books – what wowed me? I saw my favorite garment made up on a dummy and available as a kit…

This is the Book picture – The Lady’s evening jumper…

I’ve show you that because my piccy of the stand doesn’t do it justice…

So I succumbed and bought the kit to make it in this lovely Juno Alice Lace  …

It’s going to be a real challenge – I’ve not really knit in yarn that fine before (unless you count Kid Silk Haze!) but at least I know that lace patter (Frosted Flowers) it’s the same as my Halcyon!