With two small children online shopping for yarn and fabric is fast becoming a way of life for me!  Miss Clare is very patient though; we spent an hour in Spotlight yesterday without complaint – maybe because she’s been going to fabric shops since birth!  Miss Stella is being trained the same way.  Although I am never able to get everything that I wanted when I go there, and my closest store is such a mess!  Overcrowded with stock, really hard yakka with a pram.  I have a real love/hate relationship with the place.  Anyway, when I got home, these were waiting for me:

Scarf yarn from Bendigo Woollen Mills.  Yay!  I haven’t been crocheting for well over a week and miss it!  And there was also this box:

Fabric and a pattern from Sew Mama Sew.  I have very quickly become addicted to buying craft fabrics from the US – it’s just SO much cheaper!  I’ll show you the fabrics in a later post (children currently needing my attention) but here’s a start:

Even tied with bows, just like presents!