Woolfest 2011

My stand with all the shawls, scarves & kits out
This was the 10th birthday stand, with my Indulgence stole/scarf, Marion's Decadence, Jean's 10 shawl pin & Ellie's needle felting cow kit.

Well, we had a fantastic time, 5,000 people over 2 days in the little Cumbrian town of Cockermouth! That's a 1,000 more than last year, phew, I feel like I spoke to all of them!

This is what our stand looked like at about 10.30am on Sat, mad, mad mad...........

Hopefully everyone enjoyed themselves, the feedback from stallholders & visitors alike seems to be very positive, we certainly really had a great time. Nothing nicer than talking to like minded people about topics you enjoy, ie wool & all things woolly!!

The Woolclip stand was incredibly busy but happy! Well done us!

Woolfest Tomorrow!

Still needs a bit of tweaking in the morning.
Nearly there.... This is our Woolclip aisle.....

We've been at Mitchells Agricultural Mart at Cockermouth setting up The Woolclip stall this afternoon, thankfully 1 of our members, Linda, had made the most wonderful cupcakes to keep us going, I don't know how she had time to do it, so hats off to Linda!

Only 2 days until Woolfest....

Oh my goodness, only 2 days until we set up the stalls for Woolfest! AAAAh.... I'm in The Woolclip shop tomorrow so I can collect all my things, then we set up the stalls on Thursday from 12 noon onwards. Then open to the public on Friday..... & Saturday.

Collapse on Sunday!

The house is full of wool, kits, patterns & things to put on the stand, all completely mad!

The weather forecast isn't great, last year we were in short sleeves, this year I think we'll be in a couple of layers - ho, hum!

It's elderflower time

It's that time of the year again - elderflowers - have so far made 6 bottles of cordial & 6 bottles of champagne & have another 6 on the go. Last year was a bit of a disaster with the champagne as I used screw top bottles & it didn't stay fizzy, so this year I've gone back to hammering corks into the bottles! So hopefully will work out as it was wonderful opening it at Christmas time to get that heady scent of summer - lovely!

Computer's died completely now :(

Oh dear, oh dear, the computer has died completely & utterly, it is now like the parrot - deceased!

Luckily husband ordered a new one at the weekend which was delivered yesterday, so huge phew! BUT, all my files with my knitting patterns & photos are on the old computer, so am keeping everything crossed that the computer shop can save our desktop onto a file for us.....

So watch this space!!