SUE COMES FOR TEA.

It's always lovely when Sue popps in for tea, and rare too, because she moved to Portugal.
Sue is always full of ideas and takes shamazing photos .









Thanks Sue, come back soon x

REINVENTION AT THE BARBICAN.

Thursday last we had the most inspiring evening at the Barbican for 'Reinvention'; an evening accompanying the exhibition 'Future Beauty : 30 years of Japanese Fashion.'
We were asked to do a talk and run a workshop about darning, along side the wonderful Dr. Noki, founder of 'NHS'- (Noki's House of Sustainability) Dr. Noki, who never fully shows his face in public..(We saw his face and I can assure you it is beautiful)...showed a film about his couture customizing, and spoke eloquently about how we are going to have to police our situations and stop being seduced into buying cheap crap. He talked about cutting - we all have an unloved t-shirt which is going to have to be cut from our lives at some point, so cut it now and reinvent it!
We had a rack of darned and un-darned clothes, and our lecture lasted long enough to enthuse most of the audience into darning through the workshop after wards. We were grateful to Dr. Noki on the back row, for chipping in questions about environmental issues in our Q&A time.
The whole event was curated by the amazing Rosie Cooper, who fortunately had a hole in the collar of her cardigan, which I enjoyed mending, while she fixed a draft in my brothers sleeve.
Louise is fixing an old tea towel of mine, which is full of holes but remains a beautiful blue, and reminds Louise of the time when she flew over some tropical islands off the coast of Mexico.
We darned with mushrooms and speedweves, but also demonstrated our new obsession with needle felting, where you stab at fleece over and under the hole, repeatedly, over a sponge. Needle felters were letting off so much steam, we wondered if the would could go home.

Thank you to Kaz for taking such lovely pictures, And you can see Dr. Noki's work at 123 Brick Lane, and needle felting tools are on sale at PYF for £9.

ICICLES ON N.

If only we'd had an L we could have had icicles on knitted Noel and that could have been the Christmas card. Still, we were delighted, and it looks like there are more icicles to come.

LOVE-JOHN LENNON.

On Wednesday it will be 30 years since John Lennon died.
Please help Yoko make the worlds biggest smiling face film by up loading a smiley face at http://www.smilingfacefilm.com/

LISA ANNE'S NEW CARDIGAN.

We are delighted to see Lisa Anne Auerbach's new cabled red cardigan knitted in Wensleydale DK shade no.131 Lot no. 375 509 She has taken these self portraits.


Lisa Anne lives in LA and started the cardigan in the summer when she came to stay with us. We love the way she has left a bit of yarn hanging from the collar.
We especially liked seeing her lovely smile on a grey day. Lisa you look SO COOL!
You can see L_A A's work at http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com/

SISTER JO'S ANGELS.

Congratulations to Sister Jo, from Our Lady's on Old Ford Rd, for making a fabulous collection of angels, for penny and a prize at the Christmas fair on Saturday. Sister Jo has been working on the angels since the summer using lots of odds and ends. They are beautifully made, and we hope she has raised lots of money for the church funds.

A BLAST FROM THE PAST.

I was so suprised on Thursday morning when Louise walked in wearing a hat I had made for her in 1994. Louise found it, all grey and dusty in her attic, and after a journey through the washing machine, it's come up all pink, ochre and fluffy.
1994 was the year that Kurt Cobain died and Louise had pink hair extensions. We loved Kurt.