I can’t believe it is October already, the last few weeks seem to have just zipped by, and it has definitely grown colder and darker. Good knitting weather, but I find the darkness does make me feel more tired. The last couple of weeks have been full of little bits and pieces, so a few updates in no particular order:

Ravelry

I’m in! My username is HeatherMurray (I am so original!). After an initial flurry of activity I have stalled rather, but am looking forward to doing some more updating. It seems a great resource from what I have investigated so far. I particularly like being able to look at all the projects people have made from a particular yarn, and also seeing all the different yarns used for a particular pattern.

Stitch and Creative Crafts Show at Sandown Park

On Friday 21st September I went to the Stitch and Creative Crafts Show at Sandown Park, Esher. This isn’t as big as the Knit, Stitch and Creative Crafts Show that they hold at the same venue in January, and there isn’t as much knitting as you could probably guess from the title 🙂

Nevertheless it was an enjoyable morning, and I managed to find a few things to take home with me 🙂 (as usual click on the picture to view yarn in even greater glory)

The package is 20 balls of Jaeger Matchmaker Merino 4ply in purple (actually the photo only shows 10 of them), bought from Black Sheep. The red and white are DK weight acrylic from NKM Shows (no website as far as I am aware). They are for a christmas stocking for Ted (born a couple of months ago), the son of a friend. I knitted stockings for his two older sisters (pre-blog so I’m afraid no link) so he is getting one to match – except obviously it will have his name on it rather than either of theirs :-)I also met Tess and Les from Silkwood Angoras who were organising the knit and relax area, and had a nice chat to a couple of ladies who dropped by while I was volunteering.

Random other things

Does anyone know what has happened to BlueFaced, their website doesn’t seem to be working at the moment.