Today I realised this will be my final blog post of 2024 as the next two Tuesdays are Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
If you’ve been reading along during the year, thank you for your company! It’s been quite a year and there’s still a lot to do before it’s done. Thankfully I feel much better now that the Covid has gone.
If you are planning to come to the North West Winter Wool Festival in Blackpool in February (15-16th), do think about buying an advance ticket. There will be 40 exhibitors at this new event for the North West and it promises to be a great weekend. It’s an absolute bargain at £6 for the day or £8 for the weekend or you could even treat yourself and buy a day ticket that includes a cream tea for £20! Plus, with an advance ticket purchase you also get an exclusive knitting pattern to download for free!
The Imperial Cowl is named in honour of The Imperial Hotel where the festival will be taking place and I really enjoyed working on the pattern. There are options for using either DK or Aran weight yarn, with two sizes included for each yarn weight and the pattern also gives you the option of working flat or in the round! Not only that, the pattern also includes links to some short video tutorials I recorded to show you how to work the tuck stitches – they’re really easy, just using abbreviations that might be less familiar.
The pattern will only be available to advance ticket holders for the festival until mid-March 2025, at which point it will be available to buy from all my usual platforms, and as a printed pattern at future yarn shows.
I’ve also added in two Zoom workshops for January – my two brioche classes. Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche Knitting takes place on Tuesday 21st January 7-9pm and Next Steps in Two-Colour Brioche Knitting is on 28th January 7-9pm. Workshops are £25 each and you get to learn from the comfort of your own home.
I will also be teaching at four yarn shows during the year – and there are a range of workshops at different events. Keep an eye on the website in the New Year when I will get all the info listed.
Have you heard of the Knit Happy Summit? This is an online event that is taking place 23-26th January and I am one of the speakers. I will tell you lots more about it in my next post!
We’ve recently been sorting through a heap of Mum’s sewing and lace threads as part of preparing her move and I am fairly confident I will never need to buy thread again. I also completed a bobbin lace bookmark Mum had started a while while back and it felt good to be working with the bobbins again – many of which Dad had made himself. The random ends of thread are from needing to add in a new bobbin when one ran out of thread. So, as Mum made the first half, I made the second half and Dad made a lot of the bobbins, it’s quite the family bookmark! What do you think?
I hope you have a good festive season however you spend it and that you get a chance to do some stuff that makes you happy during the next few weeks. Until next year, take care! K x