In the Making...

Just got back from a fantastic day at A Good Yarn , Cleethorpes. Spent all day helping to stuff cushions for Woolsack.  Tables all set up ready for the little helpers. One of my cushions with all the swatches from the pattern booklet. If anyone wants the free patterns for the cushions, they are available here . All the cushions had to have the labels sewn in, then stuffed with pure wool fibre then sewn up. Most of the cushions have personal messages from the knitters attached. These are my contributions. They're not all here but at last count there were 31 cushions that we did today; with a few more expected this week. Everyone helped; thanks to all that turned up. I was thrilled with all the different cushions and designs. A few of them are my designs but there are lots made with the knitter's own inspiration. I found it really interesting with what everyone came up with. All the natural coloured cushions are made from Jarol British...

This last week has been a bit Woolsack orientated for me. A while back, Kate from A Good Yarn  asked me to design a few cushions to give people in the shop some ideas on what to make for Woolsack cushions. A lot of the ladies from Knot Just Knitting group have made some lovely cushions and last Wednesday we had a cushion making day at the shop. The local paper turned up and wrote an article about it. In the paper there was an interview with me too but that's not on the web (thankfully). The wool for the cushions has been donated by A Good Yarn and The Natural Fibre Company . Below is the 2nd cushion I made with some beautiful gold wool from the Natural Fibre Company. We are having a cushion stuffing day at A Good Yarn on Sunday 25th March, so please come along if you have a cushion for Woolsack.