Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has had a great Christmas and is looking forward to the year ahead
Have fun whatever plans you have for celebrating the new year tonight and see you in a couple of weeks!

Christmas get together

Sue has offered to have a Christmas party for us on the 18th December. She will provide refreshments and mince pies as well as giving us 10% off any purchases that night!!!. Sounds great! She needs to know numbers by our next meeting(4th December).
We also thought it might be nice to have a show and tell that night, so bring along anything you have made throughout the year and share it with everyone

Thanks!

A big thanyou to everyone who gave me yarn to make spiders at the library for Halloween. They turned out really great and we had loads of people making them. These were the 2 my boys made :-)

Ooops!

I made a mistake when adding the list of meetings and got all the dates from September onwards wrong, oh dear! The list is now correct and well done to Clive for spotting the error.

Knitterati on tour

We had our birthday picnic on Sunday and despite the wet weather we had a lovely time. We did get a bit wet and decamped to the bandstand but we all made the best of it and even managed to get some knitting done in between eating lots of cake!
Many thanks to all who made it and bought lots of lovely nibbles. Maybe we will make this an annual event

Stanley modelling Gwens latest knit hot off the needles!

Ivy, Clive and newly-wed Sarah deep in knitting mode

Sharon and Luke getting an al fresco bottle! and Evan and Alistair in between eating cake!

The Knitterati in action

A lot of knitting and chatting taking place at Purl & Co on Thursday evening!

Happy knitters Sharon, Lois and Fran with Sue in the background.

Welcome

I just wanted to say a big warm welcome to all the new members who have been to the group the last couple of meetings. It is great to see new faces and meet new people. I hope you all enjoy the group as much as the regulars do

Good Luck Sarah and Lewis

I am sure we all want to wish Sarah and Lewis well for their wedding today! I hope they have a lovely day today and a fabulous honeymoon
See you in a few weeks Sarah, enjoy :-) hope you got that bunting finished :-)

Summer Picnic

We are having a picnic to celebrate our 2nd birthday as a group. It will be on Sunday 3rd August at 2pm. Meet at Henley Road gate of Christchurch PArk Ipswich, opposite the Ipswich School

Ipswich Knitterati

This is the new name for the group :-)

Last nights meeting

A big thanks to Sue for letting us use her shop to meet at. It was a lovely meeting last night, very relaxed. More thanks to Irene for the fab cake and to Anne for sharing her sock knitting skills and for her time in writing an easy pattern. I didnt get very far with mine but am going to persevere
See you all next time

Next meeting

The next meeting, on 5th June will now be at Purl and co. The time will be 7.30-9.30 and all are welcome
see you there

another new member?

Sharon has had her baby, a boy called Luke Michael on Monday 19th May. you can see him on her blog at http://shazzastitching.wordpress.com/
Many congratulations to Sharon and Simon

Sock knitting night

Anne is going to do an evening on sock knitting for us using Dk yarn. This will be on the meeting on 5th June. Bring along any yarn you like and some 3.25dpns and have a go :-)

Venue change

As from 19th June we will be meeting at Purl and Co on Silent Street, Ipswich.
The times of the meeting will also change to 7.30-9.30. There will also be a charge of £2 per person. Hope this suits everyone :-)
Lois

New venue?

Jonny told us last week that he is moving to a new pub, The Swan at Woolpit, probably in June. He did say we were welcome to change venue to there, but it is probably too far for us to travel. So, if the Ship doesnt get new tennants or the new tennants dont want us, we had probably better start thinking about a new venue.
If anyone has any ideas then let me know
Lois