Tomorrow we have our spinning course. Four lovely spinners and four lovely spinning wheels.

One Happy Yarn Maker

As I only own three - lets hope they remember to bring theirs! Lunch - as ever - will be the main focus after we have spun our wonderful fluff into gorgeous bobin-filled yarns. It's all practice, of course but the workshop aims to cut out the swearing and crying that my husband had to put up with before I could get anwhere with it at all.

What I did on my holidays!

Yep - you guessed it - knitting and here are the results. Our wonderful team at sailingholidays.com who looked after us like billio on our boat - but despite the Ionian Regatta, the anchor and a lot of tacking - I still managed to make three hats - just call me obsessed!

I even had time to swap Continental versus British techniques with a lovely Greek lady at Efemia in Kefalonia where we were all bound to port in a storm.

Granny Squares

After a gorgeously sunny day, with the sun dipping ever lower in the sky - it is time to turn your thoughts to learning new things and creating something warm and cuddly for this coming Winter.

Good job we have the Granny Square course tomorrow. Students will leave having completed four squares and may even have moved on to crocheting them together, as this looks so much better than sewn up seaming.

I am off and away on my Greek hols in a mo - so will come back replenished and with a whole pile more courses on offer from the the beginning of October. So for all you poor people who still have to work for a living - you should now be able to find something bookable from the end of September - keep your eyes peeled for more classes on lace knitting; Fairisle and a range of evening and day courses which should give you all more flexibility. 

Individual lessons are available on request as are our new range of children's classes which are designed to create a whole new generation of Knitters. A new Knitting Club will also be available from October, times and dates to be announced.