Army of Knitters

Busy as ever, I’ve been knitting like the clappers. My Spring collection has been finished for a while now but the photo shoot won’t be happening until next Friday. I did want to release this new collection at the beginning of April but c’est la vie!

I did knit another ANDROMEDA. I love it!!!  The yarn is Knit Collage Stargazer Silk & Sequins in French Vanilla.

Amy from Knit Collage knit an ANDROMEDA for herself as her first garment!

Susan, Amy’s work-mate, knit one in Coral too!

Have you knit an ANDROMEDA yet? I would love to see photos.

If you’re in LA this weekend, pop by Knit Culture where there are a few AoK sample on display for the yarn crawl. I wish I could be there too!

For Easter, the fella and I baked a HUGE multi-coloured, four level cake to take to his brother’s house:

This morning I caught Lucky with her head in the ash bucket!

She had jumped on the bed before I could catch her and is now sulking beside me, after a good face wash!

The sun is shining brightly in the blue sky and I have a pile of knitting to do!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Lots of love,

H xxxx

 

 

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Last Thursday I packed up the car and headed North then East. With a large bottle of water, a bunch of red grapes and a bag of home-dehydrated fruits to keep me energized and the radio blaring to keep me entertained, I made it to Southeastern New Hampshire in a little over 4 hours.

It was wonderful to meet up with Valda, Chris & their 7yo daughter, Annabel again – I hadn’t visited them in almost a year.

Chris treated us to a delicious meal at The Blue Moon in Exeter. I decided to go for the raw option and it was lovely:

I’m not 100% raw yet. When the temperature rises, I’ll try to be as raw as I can but the Winters, even the very mild Winter we just experienced, are still a little chilly to go without cooked food but I look forward to feeling I get from eating mostly raw – healthy, light and clean.

Annabel was wearing a cowl I had knitted for Valda as a hat – she rocked it!

On Friday Valda, Annabel and I drove down to Newburyport MA to meet up with Amy Small of Knit Collage, who was having a trunk show at A Loom With A View. It was great to see Amy again (and her gorgeous yarns). I dropped off my Andromeda, Magellanic and Omega samples to display with her yarn and in a flash everyone wanted to try them on – it’s so wonderful to see people get excited about my designs as I don’t often get to show them to “real people”!

Annabel looked so cute in a pair of Knit Collage earmuffs. (I nicked this photo from Amy’s Twitter feed!):

We then went on to Chris’s parents’ house in Beverly MA. Ida & Rolly have been so good to me since I first arrived in the US and I call them my American Parents. They are so kind and generous, I do consider them as part of my family and I am so lucky to have them in my life! We ate lunch and had a good catch up session before jumping on the train to Boston.

Boston is one of my favourite American cities and it’s been years since I visited. Our destination for the afternoon was the Museum of Fine Arts.  Annabel wanted to see the mummies so we headed in that direction.

I am always amazed at the creative skills people possessed so many thousands of years ago and wished I could jump back to see what in was really like to live in such a different world!

Jumping from one extreme to the other, we then headed to the contemporary art section of the museum and was reminded that all art was contemporary at some point!

There were some amazing works to study and made me want to paint, sculpt and be more creative in other media if only I had the time! Valda & I could’ve spent several more hours in the museum but Annabel was dragging so we took a break in the cafe.

We all loved the apple green chairs and had fun taking photos of each other:

The wall behind me was such a great backdrop for some photographic fun!

It was such a fabulous contrast to show off my bright red Cromarty!

We had planned to go and rummage through second-hand clothes at The Garment District but we had run out of time – We’ll have to save that for my next visit!

It was back to Beverly where we picked up dinner from Wrapture, where I snapped a shot of this photograph:

(I had the Pad Thai.)

After Annabel had been tucked up in the Princess Bed, I got Valda going on finishing up her Pumpkin Pie. She had knitted the first cuff, her Mum knitted the rest whilst visiting last year and all she had to do was 4 rows of the bottom rib and bind off!  I worked a little bit on her Malachite, (also knitted by her Mum), while I watched to make sure she didn’t make any mistakes.

On Saturday we had a little photo shoot on the deck in her newly finished Pumpkin Pie!

After packing up the car again, we headed to Yarns In The Farms where Amy had another trunk show. Amy had been running that morning as she’s training for the Boston marathon next month. We gave her some chocolate oreo cupcakes that Ida had baked – she seemed very happy about that. I wonder if she ate all four herself? (They were very yummy!)

Yarns in the Farms is a wonderful shop with lovely people running it. I may go back and do an Army of Knitters trunk show – I’m quite excited to be going back and checking it out more thoroughly. We were there on St Patrick’s Day so there was a lot of green going on!

A few weeks ago I received an email with some photos of Laurie Hunt in her own Iona inside Yarn in the Farms:

Thank you, Laurie for sending me your photographs – I can’t wait to see what your knitting now!

If anyone wants to send me photographs of their AoK finished knits, I’d love to see them and feature them here on my blog.

Amy is now in London on part of a European trip – I wish I was going too!
Valda, Annabel & I then set off up the coast in search of some sunshine. We found it on a little beach near Rockport where we had another fun photoshoot:

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