Went out this morning while the girls were in school, and found Cheer Wool in Wan Chai, at Hennessy Road and Landale Street. I saw it a few weeks ago from the top of a tram, and it seemed to disappear ever since, like Brigadoon. (I'm afraid the yellow pages were very little help.) I found it eventually, by walking east from the bus stop at the Pacific Place mall until I saw it again, which actually took much longer than it should have, as I'd gotten there far too early and it was locked and shuttered. But time passed, and I walked around and back again until it was, as the name promised, bright and cheerfully open.
The saleslady was very helpful, and through sign language and halting English (hers, as my Cantonese, to my shame, extends only to "ni hao" and "mm-goy") we browsed through the stock. She admired the patterns in my copy of "Scarf Style" and I picked out some Grignasco Merinogold, in a lovely murrey color, six balls at HK$35 each -- a steal at about US$5 -- for "Ene's Scarf". I also got one ball of Anny Blatt Adélie in Glacier -- HK$68 -- have no idea what to do with this, really. The colors appealed to me -- perhaps a simple scarf, nothing fancy so as to enjoy the colors and texture. I'll swatch it and see how it goes before making up my mind. The colors don't seem to show up very well in this photo -- it's a multi-textured yarn of one smooth ply alternating between ice blue and green, twisted with a bouclé-type strand that alternates between ice blue, yellow, a slightly darker blue, and green. The mohair gives it a bit of a halo, and the viscose makes it shimmer. I also picked up a pair of Aero circular needles for HK$28 for the merino.
I had to laugh when I came out of the shop with the bag of wool in my arms, as the morning had been grey and hazy, but was suddenly bright and sunny, and I could have sworn that I even heard birds singing!
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