Cables workshop

Jeanette and Diane practiced their cables!

Tunisian crochet workshop

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Samples from last night's tunisian crochet workshop. Note the carefully applied knitting needles, to counteract the curl!

We did knit stitch, purl stitch, simple stitch and a few others!

Scarves!

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Turned a lot of that yarn we won from SK into scarves - I think there are 8 or so in this box. Made them on the chunky machine, and the girls helped me weave in the ends on Wednesday.

Thomas couldn't resist investigating! He gets to claim anything left on the floor for 0.5 seconds apparently :)

Yarn delivery!

Look what arrived in the post yesterday! A gift for Coventry Knit Wits being Simply Knitting's club of the month in issue 58. Yarn courtesy of Abakhan.



Took a quick photo of it this morning - there is actually a bag of Paton's zigzag hiding under the fawn stuff, which is quite pretty. There's enough for quite a lot of jumpers here, folks! I'm going to resist abusing my privilege as group leader and bring the whole lot to club next week.

Oh, the cream thingy behind? That's a cushion, that's not part of it! :)

Workshop: beaded knitting

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We tried out various different methods of applying beads - on the right side, on the wrong side, slip stitch, and pulling whole stitches through beads.

Mine is the higgledy-piggledy one top right, I gave up trying to make a pattern out of it! :)

Knitwits in the local press

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Godiva Festival 2009

Spent two days in a tent in a park in Coventry, promoting the Coventry Knit-Wits. Many thanks to Linda and Dawn for keeping me company and supplying snacks and chocolate digestives! Weather was beautiful for once.

Did the first cuff of Blusa Queen, and started the second, but spent yesterday on a secret knitting project which has stalled today because I've mislaid some yarn. Fingers crossed I didn't waste a day's knitting!