Going to the yarn shop

Now the time has finally come to join the crochet squares together. I am doing this with double crochets with yarn in colour ecru, which is the same I used for the waterlily square patterns.


Since I ran out of yarn in the middle of this I had to go to the yarn shop. Not bad news actually, I always enjoy going to the yarn shop, it is in a very nice shopping centre that looks like it was a house before, a very big house actually, and they made it into a shopping centre, below a few pictures.

This is the view of the shopping centre from outside

This is the entrance door

This is when you just walk in

They have lovely paintings inside

That is a restaurant that is inside

These are some of the painings from closer

Another view of the wall with the paintings

This is a place in Dublin, you can say that because it is raining ;-)

This is another place in Dublin

And another painting of a rainy evening in Dublin

More of Dublin

Some paintings of irish men

And this is another view of the restaurant

Now, for all those that think that Mexico is the land of the lazy, I want you to know that this is a totally unfounded accusation... Well not totally unfounded, it is founded on images like the following one:

But this is not true. I think us Mexicans are actually one of the most hard working people in the world:

• We have an average of only 10 days holidays a year, the Europeans have 20 at least, but some have much more than that, for example in France they have around 30, while in Mexico some people has only 2 days holidays a year.
• In Mexico many people works from Monday to Saturday, you don't see that much here in Europe
• In Mexico you will find most of the shops open 7 days a week. In Holland for example, you will find the streets deserted on a Sunday, nothing is open!
• And the most important, in Mexico the shops do not close until at least 8 pm every day, which means you can go buy something after work. Here in Europe most of the shops close at 5 or 6 pm most of the days!

So I have to wait until Thursday since it is the day when they close later, this is 7:30, the rest of the days they close at 5, and I don't finish work until 5:30.

So on Thursday after work I take my stuff and run out of work to get the Luas (in case you don't know luas is a tram that goes to the city centre see http://www.luas.ie/ for pictures), travel all the way to the last stop of the green line, which leaves me just where graft on street is starting, now this is a famous street of Dublin, many artists that come and sing or play here have become famous, including Bono from U2!

This is the start of grafton street

This is a shop that's in that street

Of course the Chanel shop is there

And Louis Vuitton

This is my favourite part of the street

Another view of it

And look! Lotus Yoga ;-)

Once I am there I eagerly walk to the shop, see it, I can smell the yarn, the sound of needles knitting reaches my ears, I get to the door and see the colours!

View of the Knitting shop

View of the other side of the knitting shop

I go in, I am in ecstasy, keep looking at the colours, I see them! I see them all! No wait, not all!


tii tii tiii tiiii (music from the movie psycho)

The colour I need to buy is not there!
But I still have hopes, maybe they have it inside somewhere, they must have forgotten to put it out on the shelves or something, right?
That is possible, right? Yes? Yes? Yes???

So, full of fear I go to the girl that is organising some yarn behind me, give her the paper where I have carefully taken note of the colour code of the yarn I need, I give it to her with my eyes full of hope, she takes it, looks at it, looks back to me and says: "awww, that colour is out of stock everywhere" her words sound to me like in slow motion:
"oooooouuuuuuuuttttt ooooooofffff ssssstooooockkkkkk"

Still with my heart broken I convince my self that, it can't be that bad, they will have it again soon, right? Riiight? So I ask: when will you have it again, and she says again in slow motion:

"iiiiiittttssss oooouuuutttt ooooooffff sssstooocccckkk foooooooorrrrrr aaaaaa mmmmmooooooonnnnnnnntttthhhhh" (sounded like when Doty talks to the whale in finding Nemo)

I cry inside: nooooooooooooooo!

I think she saw my expression of total disappointment and continued: "the thing is that the factory that makes that yarn is in Italy, and they close the whole month of August for holidays, so on September we are always very short of their yarns" :-( poor me...

So my blanket is stopped for a month :-(