Today we got down to some serious knitting! This morning was lace.

Here is my whole goody bag for the week, the bright multicolour is 4ply weight, and we are using this to make a lace shawl. You can make a reasonable sized shawl from only one ball.

This is Fiona’s sample showing the finished shawl:

And another of her samples showing a variation using slightly different lace patterns and also adding beads:

This is my progress so far!

Everyone is progressing really well, especially considering that for some this is their first experience of lace or charts.

In the afternoon we gave our brains a little rest and went for a trip to Cognac, and had a really interesting tour of the Baron Otard distillery. They are in a building in which Francis I was born, and which has connections to Richard the Lionheart.

And also happened to have some fantastic doorways.

It was probably best that the Cognac testing came after the lace knitting!