PRICK YOUR FINGER'S BLOG HAS MOVED!

Hello Everyone,
We have moved the blog over to our brand new website....
Go to the home page via the link below and click on the knitted candle!
The old blog archive has been moved there also so you can still look up old posts....
We hope you like our new website...it has lots more information, plus events, lists of the artists we show plus a new on-line shop....which we are adding to all the time.
see you there!
love
PYF XXXXX

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TOM OF HOLLAND'S PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GREY.

2011 could become the year of the audio book, after we all get blown away by Tom of Holland's 'Reading Gloves' showing at Prick Your Finger from 10th February.

Pictured here is Tom's portrait of Tom's knitted gloves, which Tom knitted as a portrait of the 'Portrait of Dorian Grey'.
Genius.

Please come to a private view of this and all the other glove portraits of classic fictional characters, on Thursday 10th February.

JANET MORTON GETS ME GOING.

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Thank you Victoria Woodcock for sending me this beautiful picture of Janet Morton's 'Return Shift'.
It has got me back on the keyboard and I love it.

LOUISE'S WALK TO WORK.

Louise was very brave. Fighting a fever, she put on her coat and hat, and braved the January weather to tidy up the back room at Prick Your Finger. Tidying up the back room has always been impossible - but we keep trying. At the end of Sandingham Road, she spotted the letter 'C', and picked it up. It was a useful fridge magnet, and she thought about who she could give it to.
On Dalston Lane, she stopped to grab a take away tea at the Dalston Cafe. As she was waiting, she spotted an 'a' on the pavement, and picked it up.
The tea made her feel a bit better and she started to walk a faster pace....until an 'n' stopped her in her tracks outside the Spurstow Arms. Picking up the 'n', she had the startling realization that she had just been told that she 'can'.
I would just like to second that motion - Louise can do anything.

PETE'S STRANGE TOOL.

Can any of you tell us what this tool is for?
Pete brought it in the other day, thinking it was something for threading a needle.
Pete's friend found it in her father's drawer after he passed away.
It was made in East Germany, and has a flip out magnifying glass. A bullet shaped point thing and a bit with a fishing wire loop on the end, both of which fit into the main shaft.
Any ideas?

NEW EAST END KNITTING CLUB.

If you are in the mood for finding new knitting friends for 2011, then get yourself down to Wednesday Knit at The Victoria, London E3, organised by Jackie, one of the busiest Prick Your Finger customers. Have fun!

OUR NEW DOOR HANDLE.

Two and a half hours away from closing on our last day of 2010, I finally fixed us all a new door handle, made from a guitar neck which I found in a bin in Victoria Park in the summer.
It just took me six months to work out where to put it.
We can now shut the door behind us, without jamming our fingers in the funny brass thing.
The door will be ready for re-opening on 11th Juanuary 2011.
We hope you all have a lovely Christmas, and that everyone loves the presents you might have worked so hard to create.