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My Race for Life 2011 cap is now uploaded to Ravelry- It’s a free download. Click on Ravelry button to the right to access it,any problems send me an email ( address to left) and I’ll forward it on. This is a simple knit with a little heart motif running aroung the lower edge.
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I asked Scott to get a shot of the signpost for Wonderwool in Welsh and got this:
don’t know what it says and you probably can’t see it anyway. ( I was driving..)
Sheep and lambs everywhere- the weather was perfect all weekend .It just could not not have been better.
My stand was huge :
Longdraw James (Ravelry ID) sat across from me spinning most of the 2 day show – talented young man (he’s a musician as well and seriously understands the ins and outs of yarn):
I can’t recommend this experience highly enough for all the fibre obsessed. This part of Wales is just beautiful and the show needs a full 2 days to get through thoroughly. Accommodation can be tricky- needless to say I left booking to the last moment. We were fortunate to find a room at the newly opened ( we were the first guests) Roasted Ox Inn. Had thought it was in Builth Wells as advertised only to find it was a mere 8 miles away which translated into a good half hour drive through the mountains. Seriously worth the drive however as the locale was stunning , the food good and I got to see zillions of sheep and lambs every morning. Say hello to Tony if you’re in the neighborhood.
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Debonnaire exhibited at 30 shows over the year- all over England (haven’t cracked the logistics of Scotland or Ireland yet). The largest stall size was a 6mx2m space- which I still managed to spill out of. Seriously good fun. Now off to start to the new tax year at Wonderwool Wales.
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The centrepiece of Meadham and Kirchoff’s collection at London Fashion Week was 40 pieces of gansey inspired knitwear created by a group of mainly Moray knitters under the guidance of Di Gilpin. Here is one picture, but is worth checking out more:
The new Scotsman reported today- “At one point, Ms Gilpin called in the services of Miriam Tegels, a Dutchwoman who is the fastest knitter in the world.
“We got on the train at Waverley Station and we knitted all the way down to London,” said Ms Gilpin, who with another Scots knitter enjoyed a few glasses of champagne ahead of yesterday’s runway show and declared the finished event: “absolutely fabulous”. Ms Gilpin, who runs her own knitwear design company, said: “The designers have taken a huge risk in using traditional gansey knit stitchwork on the catwalk, believing in the importance to fashion in making things that are enduring, creative and inspirational.”
On a personal note, I’ve spent the past 6 weeks travelling and exhibiting at regional stitch and craft shows which has been great fun but exhausting. I am really looking forward to my first show at Unravel in Farnham Maltings this weekend!
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Cardiff cardigan knit
This giant cardi (5mx2.5 m) was created by 200 knitters to commemorate Cardiff’s 900th anniversary and unveiled last week.
Cable stitch was used throughout and “many threads twisted together become strong representing our community”. It was created by both beginner and experienced knitters working together every Sunday since March 2010.
Amazing….
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About 60 kilos of yarn have hit the house in the past 1o days, mainly from South America but some from Europe as well. Here are the new colours:
I forgot to photo the new sport weight before it was packed up for this week’s show in Birmingham.
Life is not just yarn however ( although this Fall I would have to say it’s 98%), managed to cash in a voucher for a day’s course at the Raymond Blanc cooking school in Oxfordshire last weekend. 8 straight hours of cooking , observing and eating- heaven and I got a framed certificate ( although I was more impressed by the freebie knife).
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a crazy October- started off with a very successful show at Alexandra Palace
Followed by a belated birthday celebration in Paris which was all about food mainly chocolate, dessert, pastry, and
some daily foie gr
as and steak tartare thrown in and just few yarnie moments:
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A client from Sandown took 3 skeins of the Pampa Aran yarn to make her version of the Gretchen bag- which looks fabulous. It was her first felted effort and while she suffered somewhat during the i-cord work at the top, she produced this stunning work. Speaking of the Pampa Aran, I am awaiting a big shipment of new colours dyed to my order and am busy designing away- chunkier yarns feel right to me this fall and have mapped out at least 3 ponchoy sweater creations as well as a couple of new hats. My kids are getting sick of me knitting the 1 ball chunky cowl which I love because it is mindless and takes only 2 TV programs ( they do like to wear it however).
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Neil of NKM Wools was greeted by these knitted rats in a coffin upon entering a Chinese restaurant one night after a busy day (sic) exhibiting at the Bristol UEW. For some reason, I found this hysterically funny, probably because I had too much time on my hands. We are presuming it was some kind of early (very ) Halloween thing. Since when did Halloween become so big here- if this is any indication of what’s going on in the burbs, it’s getting out of control.
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September- busy month. Exhibited in Manchester, Esher, IKnit weekender, 2 charity shows and set up a show in Bristol. Loved Manchester, great show and city- a remarkable urban renewal. Iknit started off somewhat “echoey “, but the crowds picked up on Saturday. Bristol show was in first few days of October- a new show for the crafts market and markedly echoey.
The Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace starts tomorrow!
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