Friday 24 January 2014

Friday 24th January

 Welcome to this weeks knitting adventures in Sidmouth....every one was busy, busy, busy and knitting away.....some were so clever they didn't even have to look! Carla had been making these beautiful cloche hats complete with crochet flower........
 Ans a rainbow of delicate shawls.......

 Marian showed us progress on this wonderful cable throw, when completed she has just enough wool left to do a matching cushion, it's so neat and I am afraid the pictures do not do it justice...
 We had the bunting up again to cheer us up on this rainy day and some crocheted edged signs with a tea and knitting theme

 A very clever mummy knitting and reading stories at the same time....it's lovely when children pop in, hope they suck up the creative atmosphere and that our ladies will inspire them.....
 Mandy brought in an unfinished hessian backed wool rug and passed it on to someone who will hopefully finish it off.
 Beths legendary jumper!!!!!!!! this is two years worth of knitting using lots of her favourite yarn ends.....it's had various reincarnations and today what you see above is sadly no more...its been unpicked gain and is now a ball ...waiting to be reincarnated again.....one day...she may actually finish it! I suggested around 2017 and she said I was being optimistic!
 We had amazing cakes but I forgot to photograph them...A mixed fruit of the forest tray bake, gooey chocolate brownies and a lemon coconut cornflake cake which was amazing when dunked in tea!This beautiful piece of embroidery will one day be an apron dress.
And one lady was given this beautiful doiley bunting as a Christmas present and brought it in to show everyone . Hope you enjoyed a little look at our weekly knitting session..see you next week!

Friday 17th January


Lovely to have our ladies back again
We had a basket of flowers and bunting.....
We love bunting , cheers everything up!
Had a great big pear and rosemary cake x
Viv is knitting this lovely jumper with a cable pouch/pocket on the front...what a lovely blend of colours.

Beth has completed this beautiful baby girls jumper
Viv completed this beautiful jumper with a lovely wool that reminds me of strawberries and cream, although I donot know why the picture insists on uploading upside!

Rebecca finished her alpaca blend hand warmers.......
I waited and waited for her to take them off and put them down so I could point at something and grab them away but she kept them on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ingrid was being very clever and making socks...she is very modest but they were incredibly neat!
Margaret was knitting clothes for the prem babies at the Exeter neo-natal unit x x x x x
Carla showed us her beautiful set of crochrt needles....
can you spot the owls..........
tooo wit tooo wooooo...............
Carlas lovely wavy blanket, I think Carla is the fastest knitter and crocheter in the West!
Marian was laying cables...and they were very beautiful!
Jan won the prize for the biggest ball of wall.......
Carla was being a star and teaching us all to crochet, she makes lovely glittery shawls
Everyone was concentrating very hard, The New Year seems to have invigorated everyone and needles were clacking away very industriously ........
Although there is always time for a natter amongst friends x
We had lots of magazines on the public table for everyone to peruse and borrow x
Hope you have enjoyed sharing our knitting session and we must say a fond farewell to two of our lovely members Fliss and Chris who have left for the sunny shores of deepest darkest Cornwall, we will miss you and we hope you find a lovely knitting club near your new home .. x x x 

Friday 10 January 2014

Friday 10th January

 Hello and welcome to the first knitting session of the New Year...we of course celebrated with cake and knitting and chatter and laughter x
 Claire was working on a vintage  table cloth that Father Christmas brought her to finish.......

 There was lots of knitting to look at .........
 We had wintery holly out on a cross stitch runner..........................
 And the tables were decorated with 1940's vintage hand embroidered table cloths and crochet doileys
 There was lots of catching up to do after the Christmas break,,,,,,,,,
 We had apple crumble cake, a plum tart,rich chocolate brownies, a Clementine sponge and mince pies and clotted cream.
 Jan had made these dishclothes, they are very on trend!
 And Carla showed us her skein winding machines........
 with very little effort it winds the yarn
 In to a beautiful neat, tidy ball......this beautiful dyed yarn is from Devon Sun Yarns , just down the road.
 We used our lovely tea cups again.......
 Our favorites are these Utility Ware cups from the 1930's and 40's.
 Look at this amazing vintage knitting bag.......

 containing fleece and a drop spindle for portable spinning........
 Another one of our 1940's tablecloth...printed this time
And I just thought I would show you our lovely leaded windows...the sun streams through and lights up our knitting and crafts. Hope you have enjoyed joining us and pop in next week to follow our knitting adventures x