Animals

I was feeling a bit off my knitting a couple of weeks ago and I've been having a serious urge to crochet for a while now. I borrowed some Japanese crochet books from Lucy and thought I'd use up some odds and ends. Here's the first of my creations. Graeme has cristened him Fiver.

I've since made a lion, a bear with a frog hat on and am half way through an elephant. Unfortunately I somehow lost my sewing needles this weekend and the poor elephant is in pieces on the living room table. I can't order any more and I won't have time to go anywhere that sells them during the week. Oh for a truly local yarn store.

I was listening to Cast On yesterday morning and Brenda was discussing how difficult it is to get dress making supplies in this country. This struck a chord with me, following the demise of Fenwick's craft section during the last few weeks. I've been thinking about how it happened. I don't think it's because there's no demand for that sort of thing. If there weren't places like Hobbycraft would go out of business. I think it's the perceptions of people higher up the company that it's not worth bothing with. They've been running the section into the ground for a while. No wonder the customers stopped coming so much. What makes me feel doubly sad about it this week is that because there's no post I can't get internet supplies at the moment either.