I spent the day yesterday running around with Kelly and fondling yarn. Kelly had never been to London-Wul and Heidi is having a sale this weekend so we drove up (Kelly drove, I apparently just babbled for the entire day. Kelly probably knows more about me and my family than she ever wanted to.) to see if there were any goodies to be found. I made my little wishlist before we left with a few special projects in mind.
We left a little early, so I navigated us downtown to Reid’s magazine shop. Kelly had never been to this magical emporium either (actually, come to think of it, she’d never been to any of the places we went yesterday) and I think she was quite pleased witht the selection. I have loved Reid’s since my Dad first took me there in the early 80’s. They’ve always had the best magazine selection in the city, and certainly much better than any magazine shop around here. I forced myself to stop after I had 5 mags in my hand but I did pick up a yummy chocolate bar (they’ve also always had a great selection of candy bars, and were the first and only place downtown to carry Zero bars for years. Yum.). I got the new FiberArts, a Marie Claire idées (the Christmas one was surprisingly still on the stand so I grabbed it) Sandra and Jewelry Arts mag. I also found the latest Polymer Café for Mom.
When we got to London-Wul there were several people wandering around the shop already. I looked around for a while, chatted with Heidi, helped Kelly find some black roving and picked up a skein or two I liked. I ended up putting them back, though when I discovered the shelves of odd-lots. Lots of beautiful stuff to choose from. I found a gorgeous fluffy mohair in powder blue and some wool/silk 3-ply hand-dyed in sweet pastels. And, cof couse I got some of Heidi’s hand-dyed roving in a very spring-time colourway. I also got to meet Kelly’s friend and fellow knit-blogger, Jennifer, in town for a mini-vacation.
We headed off to Jean’s Restaurant for lunch. This place has been there for as long as I can remember, and that’s a while ago since I lived in Moncton through all of my teen years. I’ts not very big, has several booths and lunch-counter in the middle and is one of those working-man’s diners that every city has and cherishes. I think it was probably the best place to take Kelly who is a big fan of the Big Stop. We had hot turkey sandwiches and I couldn’t finish half of mine (I never can, they come on those big platters. I should really learn to ask for just half the food).
After we waddled out of the restaurant, I once again displayed my superb navigational skills by managing to get us to Cricket Cove. I did, however, not point out the parking lot until we were passing it… oops. Yeah, those navigational skills? Not so much. This was the second time I had managed to lead us beyond our intended destination. Anyhooo… We ran into Jennifer again coming out of the shop. She showed us some bamboo yarn she had gotten in a lovely pink colour, Sirdar Snuggly Baby Bamboo. This looked like exactly what I needed for one of the items on my list, to make a pair of booties for a brand-new wee cousin in Florida. Inside, I looked around and found lots of the bamboo yarn… but Jennifer had apparently bought every ball of pink! Oh, well, Cherie had said everybody had given her yellow and green stuff, so the green would do. Then Kelly, who is much taller than both me and the clerk at the shop, found one last ball of pink tucked in behind the others up on a top shelf. Yay, Kelly! You’re my hero! I managed to check another item of mylist with some Marisol Sulka, and left very happy with both the pink and green babybamboo.
After a quick trip to the Corn Crib (whole foods store) for some gluten free oatmeal for my aunties and dark chocolate for my mother, we headed back out and I proceeded to talk us back home (I mentioned the babbling, right?).
I made it home with all my swag and took off my shoes and relaxed. You know it’s a good day when you need a nap afterwards.
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