Shade 4 Lot 20

Posted August 3rd, 2006 by jhuny

Filatura di Crosa, Cambridge. Do you have any? Shade 4 Lot 20.

No. She took my number down and promised to get her manager to look in the store room and call me back by Friday. Bugger. If i'd have known that this crochetting business was going to be so much of a hassle I may not have taken it up. In Sydney, JPB took the wool label to the Tapestry shop on York Street to no avail. At the very least down here at the Tasmanian Woollen Co they have it albeit in a different colour. Finally I might be able to get my green scarf finished.

She joked about the "manly pursuit of crochetting" and, considering I already belong to an exclusive group of enlightened males, those kind of comment even meant in a negative way rolls off me like water off a duck's back. But then she goes on to tell me that knitting was started by men anyway, sailors stuck below deck needing warm clothing and something to pass the time. Seems reasonable, really - men are always at the forefront. Knitting and crochetting is basically glorified knot-tying and it is the most red-blooded of men that are good at that, especially the sailing types that like to make knots in their ropes.

So everyone stop knocking me when I get excited about wool stores. Its so appropriate that I'm staying in an old converted woolstore.

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