Holidays & The Woolclip

Well, we've just come back from 5 weeks in Spain, we left at the end of February in the snow & returned on the 1st Sat in April to yet more snow! Luckily we came back on the Saturday & not earlier as we wouldn't have got home there was so much snow.

This is what we left, lovely bright days, this is a photo taken along our favourite walk, Las Rotas, & this is what they put on washing lines in Spain.... a bit different!The day before we went away I heard that my shawls & stoles have been accepted to be sold at The Woolclip in Caldbeck. It's a wonderful shop run by 15 women as a co-operative & is based in an old Priest's Mill in the stunning village of Caldbeck in the Lake District. They sell all sorts of wonderful hand-made things from felted cards to rugs, kits, corsages & now lace shawls!

They also organise the amazing Woolfest in Cockermouth, which I went to for the first time last year, when I first started getting back into knitting again. Do try & come this year as Cockermouth desperately needs people to come back after the dreadful floods. The town is still so quiet, even though it's Easter, there are few tourists around.

So now I have to try & work out how to display my shawls in the shop......a nice problem to have!

Stole

Have just finished a merino cream Laminaria stole,
but am not sure whether I like it or not, think I prefer the original.

I've now started a new shawl, in a lovely fresh green cotton, if I had to give it a name, I'd call in apple green.

It'll be such a quick knit after the stole, a nice change!

Another ... but with a difference

So enjoyed doing the last shawl, decided to be brave & have a go at doing it as a stole, hopefully will work out.

1st time I've done a provisional cast-on too, got a long time to wait to see if it'll work! Used the provisional cast-on as on the knitty site, was the easiest to understand.