Christmas meal

This has been arranged for 6th December
Anyone who wants to come should email me or leave a comment here
If you need a menu just ask :-)
Hope to see everyone there, Stanley permitting of course. i may even bring him along

Welcome to our newest member

All of us would like to welcome our first baby, Stanley, who arrived at 2.02am on Saturday 22nd September weighing 7lb9oz.
Congratulations to Lois and the rest of the family.
Under the circumstances we are not expecting to see Lois in The Ship with the rest of us tonight.

Forest Canopy Shawl finished!

It is done! Just in time as well!

Cake night!

Jonny did us proud with a fab chocolate fudge cake which as you can see everyone enjoyed :-). It was a great night and I hope to see you all soon after the baby is born. Have fun!

Some new things!

Just a few things I acquired or finished this week!

The dishcloths were from my swap on Angel Yarns Forum, they are wonderful!





Finally sewn up the mittens and hat, although the mittens look like baby arm warmers, they are so long!







My bag I was knitting on Thursday. Took a week to knit, need to sew it up now. The fabric will be the lining, when I get round to doing it!







Glint from Kim Hargreaves. All purchases should be sent like this! Tissue paper, ribbon, it was like Christmas opening it!

Last nights meeting

It was nice to see everyone last night, especially after I couldn't come the time before. Sorry if I wasn't very sociable! I was concentrating very hard on learning to crochet, with the lovely Nadia's help and this is what I did.



Its the edging to my lace cardigan. The pattern was from Debbie Bliss' book Alpaca Silk 2 and the yarn is her Alpaca Silk DK. It is lovely and so soft and warm, I love it!!!

Yarn update

My sock yarn arrived yesterday from Yarn Yard, look at this :-










And here is my new knitting storage bag for the lounge! I love it, keeps me knitting all nice and tidy! Current projects only!

anniversary meet up?

Hi all
Its our first anniversary as a knit group on 3rd August and I was wondering what we wanted to do to celebrate. My thoughts were to ask Jonny at the pub to make us loads of cakes ;-). Also we could do a daytime meet up/ picnic maybe at the weekend.
I am on holiday that week though, but if you want to do something the week after I am happy to arrange it
Lois

This is what I bought on Saturday at NDS. They are all Blue Faced Leicester dazzle DK and are lovely and soft. DS2(who's hand is in the photo) obviously loved them too :-) They are going to be baby leggings

Some baby things I have finished

This is the dress I made from Debbie Bliss' Baby Knits for beginners book for a friend who is having a girl next month

A stripy jumper for my baby, due in September. Pattern is from Louisa Harding's Natural Knits book and is done in Patons Diploma Gold

Next outing?

Well, there has been a lot of talk about another outing as the one to NDS went so well.
The Yarn Gallery at Flempton has been suggested as has a meet up with the Colchester Group.
I think we can arrange something for July (so its after payday and I might have some money!) so let me know what you think
Lois

new blog

This is going to be fun, I know that I am going to enjoy reading our blog.

I have enjoyed looking at the various other blogs ours is linked to and find the whole "blog thing" quite fascinating.

Your pictures are really good Lois, I just wish that I had remembered to take my camera along too.

The indigo dyed yarns were to "dye" for :>) and I just know that I shall be going back for some of those. Yes it was very hard trying to decide which yarn to buy as it was all so covetable.

See you soon,

Irene

w.i.p. I have started spinning again after our visit and am still knitting my hemp top, finishing off some socks for my mother and knitting another bear.

Natural Dye Studio photos

close up of mohair loop yarn

Irene, Bearium and her mum and Fran

Daisy winding skeins

straining the weld, I think!

the audience! Cherrypie, Ann, Isobel, Lois and Irene

the dyeing room

various yarns after being dyed

dyeing the yarn indigo

all the yarns after being dyed with weld and indigo. Amanda was hoping for a vibrant green which didn't happen today but the results are still lovely

skeins hanging up to dry

more lovely yarn, the blues are my favourites!

what a fantastic shop, so many lovely colours. I had a real hard time choosing

Isobel, Ann and Cherrypie shopping

Sharon shopping!

Great outing

Thank you Lois, firstly for setting up this blog, great idea! and also for arranging the visit to Natural Dye Studio. It was great fun and really enjoyed it!

I have emailed the photo's that were taken to Amanda and she is going to use some on her website, which is great. I found it all so interesting how she dyes the yarn and makes the different colours!

Really looking forward to seeing what we all make with they yarn we bought! Here is a picture of my purchase :-