It was too late to write more last night, but really a drill makes a pretty good yarn winder. Ours does anyway - it can go much slower than either of the mixers, but the biggest plus is that it can go backwards so a mistake feeding the yarn onto the ball is easily fixed. I think we will try it at least once more and see if it saves time without all the mixer disasters slowing the process down.

I went yarn shopping yesterday, as you may have guessed from the hank that got wound last night (which is destined to be a bag for Isabelle btw). While I was there I also bought 6 balls of Jo Sharp DK to make a second French Market Bag. That’s right I am buying yarn for the second bag before even starting the first, but I just had to buy it yesterday, honest. one of the other students at knitting class on Wednesday had a sample of felted Jo Sharp DK and I instantly decided it would be easier to get the yarn for the second bag locally, preferably while it was on sale at my LYS. Which meant dragging Isabelle to the yarn store yesterday…. In the end I wasn’t happy with what I chose so I went back again today, this time with TWO toddlers. I gave them a bag of tiny teddies each the second we walked in the door and came away with this:

This I am happy with. Am I ashamed to have bribed them with chocolate biscuits? Not at all.