Of Cake and Kings.

CAKE!! It was the name of the game last night. CAKE!!! Came along in all its epic awesomeness, made by Terri, double chocolate fudge with chocolate ganache and chocolate. It was just so CHOCOLATE!! I ate that cake, I forgot where I was. Never have I had such cake. OH THE CAKE!! THEN, after the chocolate cake, I realised Barb had snuck in a lemon drizzle cake. Well, I did not know where to put myself. So I made a card, calmed my excitement, and then devoured lemon cake, the most beautiful lemon cake. Both my favourite cakes in one night of supermassive cakeyness!!! Somewhere in the night I managed to collect initial numbers for pottery sessions. But I'm not sure how. CAKE!
Was there anything else, well yes lots. New members, a card demo, excellent and productive group discussion, a royal baby announcement, celebratory bubbles, a group photo op and coffee to go with the CAKE! Unfortunately, somehow, the cake has not been photographed, but I assure you it was demolished by our hungry crafting massive.
Jennifer's card making demo went down a storm I thought. Personally I enjoyed it very much and I'm very very pleased with my resulting creation. Lots of us joined in slightly amazed by the different tools and techniques, and we are very grateful to Jennifer for such a well thought out demo.

We were very pleased to have some new members tonight and they bought some very lovely projects. Pam delighted us all with these brilliant Mr Men cross stitch pieces.

Another new member Joy turned out to be a multitude of talents. Painting, sculpting, embroidering, knitting... I do believe this list goes on. We really loved her detailed hand painted ceramic buttons..

And beautifully detailed 18th century pocket embroidery design.

Maggie Cooper bought along  well behaved and completely delightful frog and owl.

These little toys seem perfect for a new baby. During the course of the evening a future king was born and announced. So of course we made an impromptu run to grab some bubbles and toast his future which we hope to be joyful and full of love. Welcome to the world little one, we all send much Love and Light to you.

Big Love and Keep Stitching
Sue x

Andrew Macdermott Pottery Social.

YEP!! It's, booked, its happening, and we are so excited. The Superb Andrew Macdermott will be attending in October for his outstanding pottery social. Starting on 7th October Andrew will be on hand to help all who wish to make a beautiful pot from clay, he will then be returning after firing your pot for another session so you may glaze it, he will then take and fire it, and then return again, YES AGAIN, to present to you your unique handmade master piece. He will do all this for the very reasonable price of £20 per person. After already attending his sessions with women and work, I can assure you it is fun, relaxed, very non prescriptive, nothing like school pottery, and ever so slightly addictive...
So whats the crack? This is October you say, why on earth do we need to know now? Well, Numbers, pure and simple. We need to know how many would like to take part in these sessions. Andrew is comfortable with 12 in a sitting, and we already have expressed interest from 9 of you good KNS fans. However, if our numbers exceed 9 hugely Andrew is very happy to do us in two groups. This will be a demo not to be missed and a real treat for that dead time between summer and Christmas. If you would like to take part in Andrews sessions please let either me or sarah know, at group, on facebook, or by emailing us at our website.
A slide show of one of the pottery socials may be viewed here woughton-w-i-pottery-social.

Big Love and Keep Stitching
Sue x

Sharing Love, Sharing Skills.

As the feeling of summer love sweeps through KNS, we are inspired to share it far and wide. Most notably for SANDS. Yes, our charity knit is going so well we have decided to let it culminate in a big fund raising night to coincide with the clubs second birthday. So, on the 16th September, the Mayor will be in attendance, some beautiful live acoustic music from the Gonzo Street Ministry and Chris and I will be in attendance, there will be a cake sale, hopefully a raffle, a in memory balloon release, craft related activity, AND YOU!! YES YOU!! We need you to come along and make this a roaring success for the amazing and completely humbling cause that is SANDS. We will keep you updated on the blog and of course you may confirm attendance on our facebook event page. However, if you cant make it but would still like to contribute you may do so at our Just Giving Page.
 Our needles have been busy and our hearts have been full, so I think its time to move onto what on earth have we been doing for the last couple of weeks. ...
As usual our Juniors are beavering away... Kath has been skill sharing and starting younger Melodie of on her knitting...

Jazz has been story sharing with older (but sadley not junior, as much as she would love to be) Barb, about happy school days whilst whipping up some nifty friendship bracelets...

 

 

Barb is mending, a great demo of why these life skills are so important. We love this....

Pat is busy on her sands blankets and innocent smoothie charity hats. This lady is a one women knitting factory and we love her for it.

 

Deborah is making this beautiful crochet blanket. I love how snugly it already looks.

Bonnie and Jennifer are beading fantastic....

Sandra....yep....still doing Christmas with this beautiful cross stitch pattern.

I am in between projects, so decided to play at paper bead making. Please excuse my chipped nails, I promise you I chip the nail varnish from to much crafting lol!! (well its certainly not housework....)

Now, we all agreed this week the star of the show is Terri. At the end of the session she pulled out a amazing crochet bag she has started. We are all very very impressed, especially as Terri learned to crochet with us, through our nifty and free community skill share initiative when she joined a couple of months back. We loved this, and it definitely deserved the ooooing and ahhing it got. As Jazz said, we all like something sparkly.

So, if you want to learn some new things, be inspired, or just eat cake, why not pop out and see us one Mon, you know it makes sense.

Big Love and Keep Stitching.
Sue x