Why so Close Knit?

Welcome to our Close Knit - Knitting a Community Blog. We are a group of women knitters and crocheters (from beginners to seasoned wonder women) who got together for the first time, about 9 months ago to knit and share stories, patterns, recipes, eat cake and generally have a lovely time - sometimes with wine, but mostly over a cups of tea and coffee, and always with a homemade cake.

We soon found that there were more women out there who want to join us and we ended up having to hire a hall once a month in order to accomodate everyone, as previously we were meeting at each other's houses.

So - why so close knit? Well, although we started out as the usual Stitch and Bitch group, we realised quite quickly that this name really did not fit us well. There was an awful lot of stitching going on, but no bitching at all! Instead we found that the more we knitted, the more we had in common to share, the more we got together, and the more our community grew. We met new people and found new friends - hence, Knitting a Community.

So - we decided that we needed a platform for us all to share our community with others, to record our best successes, our frustrations, our wool obsessions, and of course our best spoils and finished items for all to see! We also have a facebook group, entitled CloseKnit - so if you are on facebook, please feel free to join.

We hope you enjoy it - we will each update this blog as and when we can - and we will also be very willing to help with queries, should you have any - of the knitting/crocheting kind - or if you just want to share, we would love to hear from you - so feel free to contact us on closeknitcommunity@googlemail.com .

Joys to all of you for a wonderful 2008! Happy New Year - Happy Knitting!

Christina
( Just one of the closely knitted women!)