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From our recent trip to Shillong, here are some flowers. If you can identify them, please do!
Well, with a cover like that, I couldn't just leave it at the book sale and walk away, could I? I hope it's a good read.
And then:
There's a writer I know and love.
I also found a copy of KnitLit (too), but I put it back…heartwarming stories of people knitting don't sound very attractive right now…gasp!
I bought this book today:
And I find there's a blog attached! What fun.
Also bought (being uninformed about Western classical music):
And on one of my favourite writers:
So now I'm set for that interrupted air trip to the northeast. Still haven't decided what to do with the hooks and needles. Probably check them in.
The other day, my vegetable vendor was selling bunnies! Real, will-grow-up-to-be-rabbits bunnies. I immediately drooled all over them and proceeded to pet each of them. There were two gray ones, one black and one cowering white one which never showed its face. One of the gray ones was up on the fruit shelf making merry among the grapes. The black one was giving me black looks and I hesitated to touch it at first because it scared me. Supposing it bit me? Do bunnies bite people?
I've never touched anything so soft in my life! I wish I could get them home with me. But bunnies seem less hmmm interesting than cats somehow. Do they have personalities? I also read somewhere they don't like being held, which will defeat the primary purpose in getting them, which is to cuddle. Also, do they make any sort of noise at all?
But that softness! sigh………
Desiknitter wanted to know about yarn stores in India. So here is a list that we at the Crochet_India group have gathered so far (and some of these stores include thread-only stores as well):
Bangalore
Bombay Embroidery Stores,14, Raja Market, Avenue Road,
Bangalore – 560 002 22237311
Bombay
Pradhan Stores
Bora Bazaar (Near VT)
Chennai
Raja Thread Store
Chennai
R S fancy Stores
Adyar opp Telephone Exchange
Chennai
Adyar Thread Emporium
Hyderabad
B S Kamaladevi & Sons
4-3-747 Sultan Bazar Hyderabad
24754468
New Delhi
New Kalpana Tracers
Shop No. 120 (Opp Vegetable market),
Sarojini Nagar Market
2410 1702/2467 8396
New Delhi
Sushila (wool depot?)
Munirka Mkt
Pune
New Galaxy
Wonderland, Pune – Camp
Visakhapatnam
Rathi Stores
Poorna Market,
In lane opp Aarif Opticians
Visakhapatnam
Sivam Garments
Next to HSL colony gate, Malkapuram
No, laughing is not allowed. We take what we get.
And Desi, Vardhman does make fun fur and feathery types of yarns and I didn't know this either until J from Lucknow sent me some. There are colours, also, apparently. I have to confess *shamefacedly* that I've never knowingly used Indian wool, either. But it is available in northern cities in various qualities. Yarn snobbery, yarn stores, stash…a bit unreal, what?
This was the bag that Viji gifted me for my stash. Nice! Handmade by a lady in Pune.
A new tenant from Indonesia over there on the right side —-> Go and check it out!
It's Mr. B's birthday coming up, so off you go and wish him, please!
Following the lead of Sara, I've sold space on my blog and my first tenant is Full Metal Photographer who has some interesting photos. Go pay him a visit!
I've become bored with reading all the mails about Michaels closing and also about Mainstays being discontinued and about the 8oz skeins now becoming 7 oz skeins.
We don't get any of those here, so it's all academic anyway. And it increases the feeling of Alice Through the Looking Glass that I get most of the time from reading about all those brands and shops.
Oh well, now I've become one of those irritable slapper-downers. Sigh.
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