Yesterday was National Library Day so we went over to meet friends in the nearby town to do the Library Treasure Trail (her girls and my Flo are good chums).
They had to follow a trail from a starting point to the library and look for certain book characters in the windows of participating shops.
They found them all and had a great time even though it was pouring with rain and blowing a gale.
Once at the library there were lots of activities for the children and the lovely ladies of the local WI serving tea and cake to the bedraggled parents.
To my delight, in one corner of the library, there was an extreme knitting challenge going on. The knitting needles were made out of an old broom handle cut in half (one end of each half having been sanded to a smooth needle point), and strands from 15 balls of yarn being knitted together to form a blanket. I managed 3 rows! Gosh it was heavy work, quite difficult to hold up in a knitting position and quite hard work on the hands – but huge fun. It has, also, given me a few ideas for some extreme knitting I now want to do!
All in all a good day was had (despite the weather).
Hope you are all having a good weekend.
Until tomorrow…
I’ve seen X tree knitting! They make rugs out of it!! Good for the old bingo wings!
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I am thinking of doing some bedroom rugs – rather than using random leftover yarn I will get yarn to colour co-ordinate. The piece that I did a few rows of was so thick and soft, would be lovely underfoot when you step out of bed. And arm toning too!
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Extreme * bloody auto correct
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It made me smile though – ideas of Christmas tree knitting flashed through my head! I have knitted Christmas tree bunting…
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I forgot to say, Happy Valentines! xx
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Right back at you! Happy Valentine – lovely heart items on your blog for Five on Friday
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