My Birthday is Almost Over

Okay so my birthday was actually way back in April but I am still enjoying one of my presents.  When asked what I wanted for my birthday I really had no idea.  Then I decided that maybe some vouchers for our new LYS Holland Road Yarn Company would be good because as mentioned yesterday I have been more or less on a yarn diet while on maternity leave.  You cannot imagine how excited I was to find out that I had a rather large stash of vouchers to spend and now that I have almost run out of credit I thought I would show off what I have purchased.  

My first purchase was a couple of days after my birthday and I came home with the fabulous book of Sock yarn One-Skein Wonders and we all know I have plenty of skeins of sock yarn that I need inspiration for, plus the gorgeous Chloe cardigan pattern by Alana Dakos of Never Not Knitting to make for Miss M.

Next up was some Cascade Superwash in a gorgeous aqua color that I needed for a test knit I was doing for Miss M.  And while I was there Tash managed to twist my arm to take home a skein of devine Fyberspates Scrumptious Lace in the Cherry colourway.

The Cascade became this...

And the Scrumptious Lace will either become one of these patterns for me :-)

Scrumptious Lace in Cherry

Laar by Gudrun Johnston

Wray by Lily Kate France

My next purchase was more Fyberspates Scrumptious this time in Sport weight in Sky colourway.  I adore this yarn, it is a merino/silk blend and so soft with a lovely sheen to it.  I also grabbed some stitch markers in case you were wondering what else was in the picture.

The Sky Scrumptious I think will one day turn into one of these.

Pioneer by kBomb

Finally I have splurged a bit since Tash started stocking buttons by Buttons By Benji, I love them so much.

And I used some of them on this bolero for Miss M.

Now who could think of a more awesome birthday present than that?