Knitting night

I was brave – I went!! And met some lovely people:

Here we have Liz (just disappearing off the LH edge), Sarah, Mary and Rosie (who will appear by magic if you click on the thumbnail), and here:

we have Lynette and Carol(e?)

Apologies for the picture quality – I swear the powers that be noticed that there were people knitting with very dark yarn, and turned the lights down further… Or maybe it’s just that we were sitting at the back of a huge smoky pub. Anyway – I was very relieved that I had taken something bright and simple:

(it’s a hat for my neighbour’s child – the pattern consists of “cast on what you think is about the right number of stitches, knit in K2P2 rib until you think it’s big enough, cast off, sew along the top, add tassels” – I’ll let you know how it goes…)

It was lovely to see one of Mary’s chenille stockings in the flesh, and to see what everyone else was knitting. But it was the speed of Liz’s knitting that blew me away – I tried to watch how she did it – but it was very dark in there, and her hands were just a blur. Still, it turned out that we know the same organic pig-farmers, and that we had met previously (although to my shame I don’t remember it at all) through Camlets.

I picked up lots of useful tips, and have added a couple more books to my Amazon wishlist. I feel like a “proper” member of the online knitting community, especially since I now have the pics on my blog!

Anyway, ‘tis time for me to frantically wrap Christmas presents (Adam’s presents are currently hidden almost in full view in our front room!) – and I need to somehow find time to go and buy bananas for Adam’s nursery Christmas party tomorrow. I don’t begrudge the bananas at all, but I would have liked a little more notice (mutter, mutter!)

three comments:

Cool. Knitting group pics. Daisy now tries to think of an excuse to visit Cambridge and another knitting group and maybe go to Sew Creative too... Looks like fun & well done for going.

Daisy () (link) - 14 December '05 - 17:51

Great to meet you (again!) – hope it’s the first of many! Next time I’ll try not to attempt knitting blackberry-coloured wool in the semidarknesss…

Liz () (link) - 14 December '05 - 22:31

I am a very very novice knitter who lives near Cambridge and wondered where I could find out about these knitting nights?
Thanks

Leanne Hurren () - 15 December '05 - 21:55

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