I was able to get some silk/stainless steel yarn from Amanda which came from her Japanese adventure. After this I headed to Beautiful Silks in Fitzroy. Wow, silk yarn on tap – I ‘needed’ many of these.

Bringing home these yarns and seeing Amanda’s Japanese supply has excited me about the new projects I have planned. The yarns, as you can see, await. Yarn is so full of expectant and potential energy. The only thing stopping a textile being manifested is imagination and the time or labour of the weaver being added to it. Already the yarn has much labour invested in it to get it to a yarn stage – including the silk worm input. It is a wonderful path that weavers get to follow.

However the awaiting yarn is a bit like a blank canvas for a painter. It taunts you and suggests that I may not have what it takes to retain and enrich its already beautiful state.

Other places I visited were:

Zetta Florence, Artisan Books, Kimono House, Buttonmania, St Kilda Markets.

Other places I wanted to visit – for next time.

Ziguzagu, Shirt and Skirt Market, Craft Victoria, Maria George. Bendigo Woollen Mill.