Another knitting hangover this morning thanks to our meeting at The Black Friar last night. A little gem of a pub tucked up against the railway bridge opposite Blackfriars Station with lovely green tiles giving the impression of sitting in a very posh toilet! We commandeered almost an entire room and the knitting was enthusiastic. It's always great to welcome new members so thanks to those who came last night, and we continued the trend started at The Wellington a few weeks ago of accosting random strangers and opening their eyes to the joy of knit - at one point everyone in our little annexe was knitting or learning to cast on/cast off. It was good to see lots of personal projects on the go too as well as the blue squares - I've started my own 'curtain' as we have a doorway to cover. Net curtains cut into strips and then knitted back into a curtain - it's like messing with the natural order, but that isn't always a bad thing ;) It's on the fabulous BIG needles (1" diameter, we discovered) so it's quick and easy.....
Before all the knitting I spent most of the day with Tom painting the shop. We decided to go the whole hog and go with the 'I Knit London' yellow....and it's bright but we love it. There's no chance of missing us for late night knitting, and all the planes on the way over to land at Heathrow should be able to spot us on the way past. Everything continues apace and we're all set for next Saturday's big day....
Some good news from WaterAid too. We received the go-ahead for our planned Knit A River event in Jubilee Gardens (that's the big open space next to the London Eye). It'll take place during National Knitting Week in October and we hope to have a mass knit of blue squares with as many people as possible taking part. The exact structure of the day hasn't been finalised but we'll post more about it here and on the website.
From our next meeting onwards we are moving to a Wednesday night - this is necessitated by Gerard starting his night class. So, the next meeting will be 6th September, upstairs at the Crown and Two Chairmen, Dean Street, Soho. Another no smoking area and it's got lots of space and lovely comfy chairs, which we'll try to grab from 5pm onwards. One last word....we have ended up with an umbrella and a jacket left over at the pub last night...let us know if they are yours!
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