Oh, knitting, how I miss thee

At the end of June we sent a container full of our stuff to South Africa, thinking that we were coming just behind. It was mid-summer in the mid 30s (Celcius), so my thought was: "I will survive a couple of hot summer months without knitting. It won't be too bad. Ok, I will send all my knitting needles and yarn in the shipment going in the container.I will see them again at the beginning of August. It will still be winter in South Africa. How practical!"

My knitting supplies - well, they arrived in South Africa on the 10th of August, but we did not. Five months later and we are still in Jerusalem. I am starting to miss them. And no, a little crocheting is not enough. One tiny, tiny needle hook (0.75 is really small) and 5 tiny balls of cotton string  - that does not quench the knitting fingers' thirst for some action. 

Cue our 'romantisk storbyferie' (romantic metropolitan vacation, which I hear all of my Norwegian friends talk about with such stars in their eyes) to Berlin. Berlin is filled with goodies of all kinds - more to tell in a later post - but also yarn. I had take some home. As a souvenir of course. So some beautiful teal coloured Regia 4-fadig yarn had to come home with us. (No picture unfortunately... My camera has no more battery power, and guess where my battery charger is - that is right - in our container in the port in South Africa. GRRRR!)

So now all that stands between me and knitting is needles. I love bamboo, hate metal and plastic needles, well to generalize at least. (I have never tried the fancier rosewood needles etc, so I cannot say whether or not I like them...) Last week I went looking for some needles. My usual supplier here has stopped carrying bamboo needles, so the hunt is on. We will see what this week brings.. Maybe, maybe I will be able to find it in one of the other three stores in town which carry such silly knitting notions. Wish me luck!