The Wool Garden

Long time no blogging!
Had bronchitis over Christmas but luckily had done all my knitting by then - mastering good old fair isle - in fact I have gone fair isle crazy and made a zillion (at least 8) bobble hats - much in demand with several commissions,  and as Jim tells me very popular in night clubs! Have had to resew pom pom - whatever do these Londoners get up to?

We have a brill new course available at The Wool Garden on a Thursday afternoon learning all the great new techniques of fair isle and (phew) not taught by me! Our lovely visiting tutor Marianne Trevis - she of the Norwegian techniques - gently tutors knitters in the art of knitting in the round continental style which allows you to make wonderful patterns without pulling, twizzling or untwisting - truly incredible and has transformed me into compulsive colour work person.

I knitted this jumper in the round with Debbie Bliss Rialto Aran - it was really good for showing the picture in fine definiton.

I combined a series of patterns from my fairisle chart library and then gave them to people I liked for Christmas - good grief i even made and lined a bag And my fave - a hat for Jim's girlfriend Pippa who runs Pippa's Poppets up in the big smoke:

http://www.pippaspoppets.co.uk/Home.html

All other offspring get nothing because they are in the boiling hots of Asia - Thailand and Vietnam to be precise and they barely need a Tshirt let alone a bobble hat!
Best get started for next year.

If you fancy a day course there's one coming up on January 25. Just fancy my ancient hobby becomng so trendy!