I have shamelessly stolen this from Wheezy's blog (http://lifestooshorttoblock.blogspot.com/2007/10/ive-been-thinking.html)so you can go there to see some other replies.

Imagine someone gave you £100, half to spend on your hobby and half to spend on you (no buying stuff for the kids or a new tyre for the car). What would you buy? Gift vouchers are allowable but a total cop out.

Me - I'd have three kilos of sheep fluff and two pairs of new trousers or maybe another spinning lesson and one pair of trousers. (To be honest I'd rather cheat and spend all of "my" £50 on knitting/spinning stuff bt that's how I managed to get to the state of only having two pairs of trousers and one of those is fit only for the allotment)

A new pair of boots for me, possibly!
As for the hobby, I have been eyeing up second hand spinning wheels (just on the offchance, really shouldn't be getting new stuff at the moment!!).
I've also got a pattern waiting for some yarn, so I could get the yarn for that.
Or even put it towards a new flute, not that £50 would go very far:( Might get the old one serviced though!

Hey! :rant: I though only Garth Brooks was shameless :suspect:

That's OK, you can have my idea, I am honoured :D

Nearly forgot to have my go there! I would buy the £35 wind chime I saw in Dobbies and a Yankee candle with my £50. With my other £50 I would get 4 skeins of undied foot covering yarn, twenty packs of liveaid colouring, two sets of dpns for more foot coverings and use the rest up on foot covering yarn - all bought from the Wool Baa as Jill needs the business :hihi:

I think I might buy some luxury yarn, the type I cant afford usually.

Ooo thats a toughy:suspect: I quite like cooking so may like to get some fancy expensive cookware (not sure what though at the moment) or maybe some lovely plants for the garden. As for yarn well the world is my oyster I guess. With that kind of money I could almost buy enough Noro silk garden to make the sweater I really like the look of:D Sorry that was not at all helpful was it:roll:

Fifty pounds would buy the pattern and enough shiny new yarn and notions for something I really, really want to make: Bridie by Anna Bell, perhaps. The other fifty would buy a dress or skirt to wear with it. (I'm normally rooting around in charity shops, TK Maxx and the Topshop sale rails to fulfil my fashionry and yarn-y needs.)

Books are always a safe bet for me, as I get through about three a week, and there is a new 'Agatha Raisin' mystery out now. Or a bottle of champagne never goes amiss. A bit of Emma Bridgewater pottery. Or a little something from the gallery shop just inside the Winter Gardens, pretty girly things in there - and so unusual. Vouchers for the Wool Baa? Or a swift and wool winder - I am battling with the wool for my Juno jumper!

hmmmm... *thinks...*

does hubby actually have to know about this theoretical £100?

cos if not...

*whistles happily, and makes her way to Jill's shop, and buys oodles of sock yarn*

^^^^
well...

What?

he'd get a pair or two out of the stash!

lol

Said it on the blog, but I shall cross post to here.

Tattoo.

I'm with Mara, and would probably spend most of it on books, though I love Ora, that shop on the Sharrowvale Road, and could easily spend a fortune in there, if I had a fortune.

For the knitting half I'd go for one of those Very Posh Knitting Bags, like Jordana Paige, or a set of Denise interchangeables.