Tangled Yarns

Well, it was a wet weekend in Brisbane. While it was tempting to rug up in front of the fireplace with a drink, I ventured out. On Friday night I attended the opening of The World Press Photo exhibition at the Powerhouse, New Farm.

Myself with Dan Smareglia who does their media bookings.

Drinks and nibblies always go over well with the crowds at these openings. The exhibition features some well known images and some very confronting ones from photo journalists over the years.

www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/view/world-press-photo

The exhibition is on  for a couple more weeks.

On Saturday morning my cousin and I headed into Tangled Yarns on Chester St, Newstead. My cousin is an avid crafter and far more skilled than me with knitting and crochet etc. I'd seen this store a couple of weeks earlier and driven past and wanted to get back and check it out.

The store is owned by Kelly Kingston and stocked with beautiful yarns of all types- woollens, cotton and more. Kelly has many gorgeous knitted jumpers, cardigans etc on display. These are hers and swap around often depending upon what she wants to wear. She is a very skillful knitter. There are also lots of children's knits, which were things she'd made for her daughters who have since grown out of them.

There's lot of cute knitted items all around the store.

Every day there are social knitting groups in the lounge area- hence the morning tea provisions. As we browsed a group of ladies were settling into the lounges and Kelly said some days it really is a tricky job to get her social groups to leave as they'd be happy to stay all day.

As well as yarns Kelly stocks a beautiful selection of buttons, which she happily admits stems from her own button fetish.

If you're a crafter and your fingers are starting to twitch this winter Tangled Yarns is definitely worth a visit. My cousin could not leave empty handed and bought some wool for knitted socks, but she's like most of us and has put it into her craft box to wait till she's got through a few other projects yet.

www.tangledyarns.com.au