For new baby

At last I found the crochet pattern I have been looking for over the past couple of years, since I saw a jacket in Monpazier. This in turn reminded me of a jacket seen on a market stall in Mansfield years agao - I really regret not buying that one! In Monpazier it was on sale for 22 Euros, and in two colours - still can''t see how they achieved that..It appears to be over 50 years old.

Matthew Townesend Junior

Introducing Matthew, a friend for Henry. Somehow he seems more laidback - it may be the ears!

Henry went to St Tropez!

Henry went on one of the last bmibaby flights to Nice, and was driven along the coast o St Tropez. He can be seen fully enjoying a very expensive Orangina in the cafe at the end of the harbour. Having forgotten his sunglasses, he didn't do any sunbathing so has come back the same colour as he went, plus a few insect bites.

Henry Griswold Jr

Based on Victoria and Enid by Helen at the museum. Henry has got braces.

A few little extras

Barley and lavender bag - saw a similar one in the chemist - all the stuffing pushed to one end, folded for packaging. So knitted a simple tube of 140 or so rows, grated both ends, half-filled with barley and lavender. Supposed to me microwaveable for warmth, chillable for a cold compress. Looks like an out-of-shapre beanbag! Swedish Dumpling doll - two rounds, or on the CSM, one tube, colour-change in middle. Facial features on top half plus a hat. Forgot to take pix before I put them in the museum. Also trying out the tomato wedge heel socks again.

Cyril the silly centipede

...or really, Damien the daft decipede

Body is one long tube, the gathering is done at the stuffing stage. Essential to use yarn with some nylon in it for this, which is why the "mouth" (which started as a red nose) has not come out right - the yarn broke at the gathering stage. I thought it looked funny, so just left it, Legs are tubes sewn, and split.

Going Round in Circles in Ruddington

What a fantastic event this was towards the end of March! 20 people and 22 machines packed into the Chapel of the Framework Knitters Museum, for a day of learning and fun. Any more people and we wouldn't have been able to move, so perhaps my initial aim of 30 was a tad over-ambitious. It wasn't the machines really that took up the room, but the size of the tables that people brought with them.

Still, the day has set the "seed" for a weekend event elsewhere in the country - I don't think many of the people at Rudd had been to the Bournemouth event in 2005, so this is all new to them. One think=g to come out of discussion was how machine prices have shot up for the £400-500 price range to the £650-850 in just a couple of years.