The days hurry by ( Read more... )

As it's half term NYK2 spent yesterday at our house so we could do the prep for Hop-tu-Naa together ( Read more... )

Today I have been involved in an upcycling project for NYK2 ( Read more... )

So - lifeboat. As I mentioned it is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the RLNI. This is especially important to our island as Sir William Hillary, the founder, lived in Douglas and is buried here. As part of the celebration one of the knitting ladies is making a wall hanging to go in the town centre and asked me to needle felt her a ( Read more... )

I forgot to note down that we had around 30 children visiting us for Hop-tu-Naa, going by how many bags of sweeties we got through ( Read more... )

I said I would write more about the talk and workshop last Saturday ( Read more... )

I have been having fun with self-patterning chunky yarn. It is fun as it knits up quickly and works best with a simple pattern.

So - I knitted myself a jumper;


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Last night it was W.I. night and we had a card making workshop, as well as feed back from our area rep at the National conference.

We were making cards using pastels and pieces of card embossed with flower patterns for us by the tutor.

These were my two finished cards;


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I'm sorry - I've not been here as much as usual recently. Please aim me at anything important/interesting that I have missed. I have been doing some extra shifts in the bookshop, and getting a lot of baking done ready for the TT festival - first full day is Monday ( Read more... )

Wednesday's chocolate workshop was followed by D-d and I going to a Christmas wreath making workshop last night, as we did last year. I think we were both more confident this year, and really enjoyed chatting to Heidi, who runs it, and those round about us, as we worked!

Here are our two wreaths;


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