Has anyone else tried the new Louisa Harding yarns? I was tempted by a skein of the kimono angora and the sari ribbon when I was in JL last week. After some confusion with the ball band instructions for needle sizes (I can't remember the last time I had to go to the design consultant for advice on yarn, usually I just buy it and get on with it) I wound the sari silk ribbon into a ball and started knitting.

I can't remember what shades I got but they are both pinkish tones. At first when I picked up the kimono angora and looked at the price I was pleasantly surprised to notice that it was under GBP4. Then I realised this was for 25g which I didn't think was quite so reasonable. Still, I bought a ball to play with and the texture is so so soft it almost made me forget the price. I have no idea what I'm going to do with 1 ball of each, I'm thinking maybe some kind of skinny drop stitch scarf?

Ally Pally prep is going well. Pretty much the only thing I have to do now is wind and label the last 10 kilos of silk yarn. I expect that will take me a good few hours but I plan to get it all done by the weekend. I want to be able to spend Mon / Tues / Wed next week sitting down in front of the TV relaxing instead of putting together kits, labelling yarn and printing out patterns. Yeah right, I'm not sure I even know how to sit in front of the TV and relax unless I have some knitting needles in my hands.

Thanks for all the walking to school comments, they have just started a walking bus but Wayne and I both decided that at only just 5 she is a little too young to go on it. I like the idea of sharing the walking with other people, I must get better at suggesting things like that to the other mums and lose this last bit of playground shyness that still hangs over me every day.

Random knitting fact. Do you know how to break the glass in a double glazed window if you need to get out in a hurry for some reason? I was on a HSSE training course with work last week and we learned (not through any practical experiment though!) that throwing a heavy object at the glass will not break double glazing, instead you need to hit the bottom left hand corner of the window very hard with something sharp and pointed. Like a knitting needle I called out without thinking. Yes, like a knitting needle the instructor agreed before all the other guys in the room looked at me strangely and we moved on to the next subject. Whoops, do you think I just gave too much of myself away to the people I work with? Hee hee hee.