A Bluestocking Knits

My mom is here for a visit — in knitting news, she brought my new Jaeger booklet and the three skeins of Jo Sharp kid mohair that I ordered a few weeks ago!

The other day while the girls were in school, we went yarn-shop-hunting, and found this one —

The main Tailor & Alteration shop at 1/F Shing Wah Mansion,451-457 Hennessy Road, in Causeway Bay.  Very hole-in-the-wall, I thought for sure that we’d blundered into some service hallway, but the little man at the desk took one look at us and pointed to the ceiling — or so I thought — after repeating this a number of times, I finally saw that he was pointing at a sign, one which matched the business card in my hand. 

The shop was much larger than it seemed, full of nooks and crannies, a good-ish selection of yarns, but mostly sewing fabrics and accessories.  (Good to know, as Julia’s got a hole in her purple dress….)

Grandma was delighted to finish the poncho I started for Julia, in Lion Brand Homespun.  Couldn’t get her to stand still long enough, but she was obviously having a good time!

And here is my progress on "Forbes Forest," after about a skein and a half —

The Jaeger merino is very pleasant to work with, softer than it had seemed at first.  Am tempted to stock up on it….