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
