Dianne's Cardi

On Thursday, Dianne came to the knitting group wearing her wonderful cardi,What do you think?

Isn't it fantastic?

John, the number one knitter

Yesterday John came into the shop with his wife and it was a joy to have a man come into the shop who didn't do an about turn and walk out of the shop.-- what is it about men (most men)that when they get a glimpse of wool they come over all a tremble and are sooooooo uncomfortable they work out what is the quickest way out of the shop.

Anyway John proceeded to tell me he wins allot of first prizes with his lace weight shawls and just loves knitting.

So today, in he walks and he brought some of the work that he had with him(he is on holiday)
See what you think, isn't he clever

Isn't that great, I need to keep practicing to be able to get to that level.

Tomorrow I will try my best to show you some of the things I have got on the go.

I am so excited, I have managed to do a new look web site which will take over from the present Woolfish website.click HERE to access the site,for the mo, which is now active,when I have worked out how to change the site over, I will let you all know, it will take a few days

Woolfishers Knitters and Stitchers

Just a 'wee' taster about what goes on at Woolfish Knitters and Stitchers,

Diane finished this after a few years on the frame and is a bit loathed to take it off the frame, this is what she said :-

'This cross stitch languished on the frame for 16 years - growing slowly - a stitch here, a stitch there. Then Woolfishers!! and it grew and grew, almost without me realizing while I stitched and ..................with fellow Woolfishers'

Lucy has recently managed to come(thanks to her husband), and is a fan of circular knitting, here she is putting her best foot forward. It is good having her along.
Irene, who is a little gem in the group, is knitting all sorts of things with a passion as well as patch working and crocheting
This is a little sample of what goes on, and that's not mentioning Grace who is an inspiration to us all with alllllllllllll her socks, and Romana (who is the oldest member in the group) just knits and knits and knits and keeps us all in check, and Linda who is such a fast knitter and will knit anything I would like her to, and Maria who is knitting the longest scarf?imaginable (is it a scarf or .. - we will just have to wait and see) .........

We will be putting lots more pictures and members on our new look web site coming up soon.

New Look Web Site Comming Up *

We Have had a busy couple of weeks,

Trudi looked after a stand we had at the Kelso Show,

and last weekend I looked after the stand at the Ayr Flower Show,

We Both had a good time, and met very interesting people who were interested in knitting.

*I would like to let you know that I am in the throws of up dating our website, and hopefully you will be able to click on images and buy on line.
I just need to take lots of photos of individual products.

We will be putting together a Woolfish Festival which will be held in the St Abbs village hall, and lots of other nice little bits, I just need to get on with it

tea cozy?hat?

Well, after borrowing a tea pot from Muriel,I took these photos,

It has been admired and a few people have asked to try it on, I don't know if that says something , may be I should start knitting.
I was pleased with the way it felted,quite a different look.

Retro Yarn

Before I start going on about yarn, I must just mention a lady who came into the shop today,her name is Joan, she is an amazing elderly lady, anyway she asked if I had some cheaper wool because she crochets hats for an orphanage in Romania, she has made about 180 so far and her goal is to make 800 , one for each child in the orphanage/s she crochets for.

she likes oddments and because of trying to get change I just didn't think to give her some wool that I have tucked away,please if her grand daughter who was with her is reading this please tell her I have some more yarn for her hats.

Anyway we have just got this yarn in, it is Retro by Adriafil, I knitted one ball up and it is amazing, I would like to make a tea cozy and then felt it, I know I am mad because it is wonderful as it is but it is made up of 96%wool so I am just interested in how it will turn out

Wonderful isn't it, I am hopefully going to felt it tonight if I just get on and knit the other half of the tea cozy, Hopefully you will see the finished product tomorrow.