‘Dear Ali, It’s All Your Fault!’

Wednesday 6^th March 2013

I love emails that go: Dear Ali, it’s all your fault! I am now addicted to knitting with beads and with Kidsilk Haze…please help me.’ I received such an email this morning and it has very much brightened my day. Of course, I apologised but in fact as we well know, I am not in the least bit sorry, in fact I am horribly gleeful at the thought of spreading a little more glitter-love.  I openly admit to being a pusher. What I have yet to tell my new addict is that the cure has yet to be found and research has been abandoned. I am aware that not all knitters succumb to the glitter-gene virus.  One of my dearest friends refers to Kidsilk Haze as ‘the yarn of the devil’.  But that’s good, it wouldn’t do if we were all alike would it?  For my part, I am currently in a sort of DK with a bit of Aran phase – which is an unusual state of affairs for me, my usual MO being in the lace and super-fine ghettos. And I was beginning to think I had exhausted all possible converts in the South West of England, for surely there cannot be many knitters whom I have not now infected enthused?  But then, lo! in comes this morning’s email, laying the ‘blame’ for a new outbreak firmly at my door.  I am happy to report that my newest victim student is coming to Spin-a-Yarn on 28 March to knit a new beaded lace scarf design with me.  I do not think there are any places left but it’s worth contacting the shop to see, if you fancy it?