lsb's making me a stripy scarf in rowan big wool shades 14, and the very lovely but very discontinued shade 3. i didn't realise it was discontinued til i went to holmfirth today and couldn't find it anywhere. the reason i wanted some more of it's lovely lilac yummyness is because i want to make a nice warm winter hat, complete with earflaps (nelly from rowan's little book of big accessories) in matching colours. i really had my heart set on this hat and scarf combination and have actually resorted to trawling through pages of other people's big wool stash in an attempt to find someone with a ball of shade 3 to spare that they're willing to swap or sell. no such luck as yet though, so i turn to you - my lovely readers, in my hour of need to look deep into your stash and help out a fellow knitter.

if on the off chance anyone does happen to find a spare ball, i can be reached via a comment or an e mail (address to be found via my profile), i'm willing to do a swap, sale or even negotiate a deal whereby i'll do your ironing for a month.