York is a wonderful walkable city and I popped into their relatively new Seasalt store as we don't have one in Liverpool. I love their clothing - it's comfortable, well made and designed with interesting prints. But today it was their bags I was on the hunt for and I have now bought my perfect summer bag. It's so large and roomy - a sweater project can easily fit, along with all the other essentials that need to travel with me, and I love the bright orangey-coral colour. This will be the perfect carry-on bag for flights and also a good wool festival bag - I can squish an awful lot of yarn into it.
As a bonus, I picked up one of their new canvas shopping bags too - one can never have enough project bags! It's so pretty and was only £4. The print is meant to evoke the nautical, but all I see are Crazy Zauberballs!
This might be because I spent several hours on the train and also at the meet-up, knitting away on my helical striped cowl. I finished somewhere between Manchester and Liverpool and grafted the ends together this morning.
It does have a spring look and feel to it, although it was far too warm to wear it today.
Despite my intentions to knit to the end of both Zauberballs, I quit with possibly 15- 20% of each ball still remaining. The cowl was certainly long enough and I think I was starting to see stripes in my sleep! I'm pleased with the outcome and it'll be a cozy and cheery cowl to pull out on really grey and cold winter days.
Ohh so many pretty things in this post! It's hilarious how much that printed bag looks like Zauberballs! And I love how your cowl turned out. I'm filing away that there's a Seasalt in York - very exciting! I went to one the last time I was in the UK and loved it, so it's good to know where the (somewhat!) proximate ones will be once I make it to Lancaster!
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