French Weir

A reminder, Ladies. On Sunday we will be knitting at the French Weir Park Fun Day.

Sunday 10th August - 10-4
French Weir Park FREE Entry
Lots of Activities ( some free )

So, bring your knitting and join us .Some of us will be knitting hats for the premature baby units at local Hospitals.

Hat patterns for premature babies

We were chattering on Friday night about whether we might knit some hats for the neonatal ward at Musgrove Hospital (a good idea for using odd bits and bobs wool).

Also talking about whether this is what we knit on Sunday at the French Weir family fun day.

So here are some patterns:

Baby
'http://www.p2designs.com/pdfs/Denny-BrokenRibHat.pdf
Free Knitting Pattern W80025-K Preemie Cap : Lion Brand Yarn Company
http://www.p2designs.com/pdfs/HatSeashore.pdf
http://www.p2designs.com/pdfs/HatPoppies.pdf

Change of Plan

Some of us made it to the Coldharbour Mill open day. Here you see Jacqui, Ness and little K. admiring the very sweet Alpacas, from Ashill Alpacas.
Various problems have caused us to call off the Close Knit attendance at the Fair on the 27th July,in the High Street,Taunton. We will, however, be meeting informally in the Old Library gardens, from 12 midday on the same day, to just knit. Join us if you can.

Not Fibrefest

On Friday, some of us were lamenting the fact that Fibrefest is not happening this year. Well, guess what? Coldharbour Mill is having an Open day, and Summer Art Show. Saturday 19th July. 11am - 4 pm. Free. There will be demonstrations of Spinning, Weaving and Feltmaking. Participation will be encouraged. There will be Alpacas in attendance. So, see you there!
[ I also picked up some flyers about Fibrefest NEXT year, 22nd and 23rd August 2009. I will have them at the next (August) meeting, although folk may pick them up at the open day].

July Meeting

What a jolly meeting, last night. Quite a lot of people, and such skills! With Rosalind carding, and Chris hand spinning and everyone else knitting, we had a 'start to finish ' of hand-knits going on. And plenty of cake.

The Oxfam squares are going well - Ness has some, as well as those in the photo. The collection reflects our range of expertise, in the level of ambition of pattern. All beautifully made.

I've realised that I haven't uploaded any pics from my camera for ages, so I can't post about my first ever finished knitted garment.

Still, here's a pic of my first ever knitted anything - the scarf that turned into a bag. I am still immensely proud - those were the days when I could barely hold the needles, let alone purl!

Thanks to all of you for the fantastic birthday cake and brilliant pressies. I still haven't spent the Hayes voucher, though I have thoroughly enjoyed using the money ten times over in my head. At some point soon I shall commit to a new project and blow the cash on something fabulous.

See you soon xxx

My last two projects

I finally made the move from scarves to cardigans. I had a button left over from the first cardigan so chose a cardigan to go with the button.

World Wide Knit in Public Day

Hello, all!

If you are looking for a WWKIP Day event, here's a link for finding one! :) Happy knitting!

Check it out!

Grafting stitches

Thank you Linda for all your help on Friday sorting my knitting out. I thought I would post what I found about grafting stitches as there is a helpful video on this site. http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/tips/graft.htm

June

It's the June Close Knit tomorrow. Hurrah!!!