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Friday 27 June 2014

Knitting holidays in France


June has flown by, we have had a workshop and a retreat and I haven't had time to put any of it on the blog until now.
Two brilliant but very different weeks. The first week of June was a knitting and crochet workshop with tutor Jane Crowfoot, we had three residential guests - Mary, Dani and Barbara and four who live locally coming on a daily basis - Annabelle, Lorraine, Mel and Josie.
Jane fresh from a week in the Shetlands had brought along a project for everyone, a gorgeous knitted fairisle bag with lace edging in soft heathery shades. In addition to this there were workshops on basic crochet and how to read a crochet diagram.
Mary and Barbara arrived a day early to tie in with flights to La Rochelle, so on the Sunday morning we went to the market in Saintes to buy some fresh fruit and veg for lunch................



........................then had a coffee at the Roman amphitheatre


The next morning we settled in the studio for the first workshop, Jane also brought along a huge selection of shades form the Rico cotton DK range for everyone to dip into.


Jane's knitted bag project with fairisle design and lace edging


on tuesday morning we went shopping in Saintes


to the huge fabric and yarn shop where we all bought, pattern books, yarn and ribbon



then on to Maison du Monde


then back home for more knitting and crochet


Barbara's beautiful crochet design which she managed to complete in the first day


a visit to St Jean d'Angely for shopping, sightseeing and coffee



more finished projects being blocked


a shopping trip to Jarnac



knitting and crochet in the garden


dorset buttons


projects nearly finished


Culli has been busy making yarn bowls


Dani's beautiful crochet scarf, created from 40 shades which she is working at random





The end of another wonderful week, with Dani and Barbara promising to return next year and Mary staying on for the knitting retreat that started on the next day.

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