The Arran Knitting In A Pub Club
Posted: Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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Sunny Think I've missed this week, will never catch the ferry now, can I bring along my life size wooly mammoth family, it could do with ripping out and starting again...........Seriously a great idea.
GrannyE. DBE.RM from Auchenshuggle swabbin down the veranda
The Arran Knitting Spectators club will be meeting tonight in the Eden Lodge. No need to wear scarves as these will be knitted for you. No sectarian (or crochet) chanting on the terraces please.
slipknotstitch from Music to watch women knit by
What a great idea.........now if only we had a selection of pubs.
damadcoo from unst
The knitters could call in to the Cross Inn in Ness when the fank is on. Hard to resist the idea of Cross Stitching.
Annie B from Lone Sheiling
A jumper with a cable - electric jumpers -how swish is that? Have you a circuit diagram so Donald's Auntie Ina can knit him one. I wondered what all those jumpers with AC/DC on them meant.
calumannabel from Sirdar Cottage Fivepenny
By The time this post appeared it was too late for this week but we will be meeting again next week. Last night was a raging sucess! Well it was for me anyway. Everyone was having a good laugh at my enormous jumper when a gentleman came over and offered me a considerable sum of money for it! So I'm rich and the complicated cable is off to earn it's living in South Wales! We were there for over 3 hours and julie manages a whole 4 rows! She hasn't knitted in years and had decided to start with a fancy pattern so had a few false starts but the rest of us got quite a lot done and we had a really good natter. All welcome 7.30pm next Wednesday at The Eden Lodge, Whiting Bay next week.
Sunny from Arran
Do you have to be over 18 to be allowed to knit? I wish I could join, I'm knitting a jumper for my son to wear to my sister's wedding - its taken so long that she's been married three years already.
BoB from Lewis
Electric jumpers are always handy when you leave your lights on. Got the idea from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Spectators are welcome as long as their support doesn't distract the knitters from their nattering. We can run off some lovely bobble hats for them in no time but I must make it clear that the knitting in a pub club is an equal opperchancities disorginiseation so men are welcome too. Come on boys, show us what you can do with some 4 ply and your big thick needles!
Sunny from Going clickety clack
Mike at IBHQ once said that he had a blatant plug. Maybe Graham still has it and could fix it to Sunny's electric jumper?
Annie B from Lone Sheiling
Not sure i follow, nice to get a menchie though. Happy knitting. G
Graham, IBHQ from Glasgow
No you don't have to be over 18 to knit but we don't want to encourage under 18's to come to the pub as they make us look old and wrinky. Keep knitting BoB, it will be finished in time for her next wedding!
Sunny from The Rechargeable Jumper Support Group
Was it Noah & Nelly where she used to knit covers for everything that stood still for more than 2 minutes. I think this is the new artform, like that bloke who covers up the reichstag and stuff. Why not knit monumental covers for all sorts of things. I am sure lots of things get cold, like mountains, and windmills. Surely no-one could object to a windmill with nice woolen cover. Whole post industrial wastelands (known as west of Scotland) could be knitted into a bold new economic future. Random acts of knitting kindness could manifest themselves, giving knitted garments to neds because those shell suits don't really keep out the cold do they.
The knights that say Knit from Noah and Nelly
A really handy knitter could run up an all-electric eclectic cable cardy for a cold cat, more acquanted with nits than knits for kits. An all-electric cable cardy cat-kit................
Flying Cat from Orkney
Those Northern Isles computer literate moggies are getting themselves in a fankle, this is what happens when you start educating pets! In my day pets knew their place but nowadays they run around wild and get confused by wooly jumpers! Last nights knitting club was not a raging success! That will teach us to clash with the WRI! Next weeks knitting club is 7.30 at the Drift Inn Lamlash on Wednesday. I will be giving a masterclass on making pom poms if anyone fancies it!
Sunny from Arran
Hi guys, being a knit addict I can't go on holiday unless I have something to knit and obviously if I'm coming to Arran I am hoping that there will be something to tickle my fancy in the way of stash enhancement. We will be coming to Arran on or around the 21st/22nd July may I come and join you one evening. Husband enjoys a drink (both beer and whisky) plus he enjoys the fruits of my labour so is more than happy to indulge me.
Maureen Dubery from Johannesburg, South Africa
Arran ExPat wandering the world, residing in Cyprus for now with the odd visit home.
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