Here we are at our 3rd WWKIP Day held once again in Yarns Coffee Halt at Theatre at The Mill, Mossley. We held our WWKIP Day a week earlier than the official date because of holidays etc. among the group. We had our WWKIP Day on Saturday 3rd June.
Our local Hookery Group were joined by some lovely ladies from
the Knitwits Group in Portstewart who went on to host their own WWKIP Day on Saturday 10th June on Portstewart Promenade. Thank you ladies for your support. Maybe next year we'll travel
to the North Coast and join you for The WWKIP Day.
We also had some friends from Whitehead who joined us again this year. Thank you ladies.
Our local Hookery Group were joined by some lovely ladies from
the Knitwits Group in Portstewart who went on to host their own WWKIP Day on Saturday 10th June on Portstewart Promenade. Thank you ladies for your support. Maybe next year we'll travel
to the North Coast and join you for The WWKIP Day.
We also had some friends from Whitehead who joined us again this year. Thank you ladies.
The staff at Yarns were very attentive as usual and thanks must go to the Duty Manager and to Heather in the coffee shop. We had 36 folks who came along - women, men, adults and children, some who could knit and crochet and others who couldn't, some who were coming back for a second time and some who were new.
On the table in the photo above you can see some white pieces of work. It was quite difficult to get a good picture of the white work. One belongs to Catherine's great grandmother and was crocheted back in the late 1800s. Catherine's grandmother worked in the local linen mills and she then attached the crocheted pieces to some linen. The work is so detailed and one can't even begin to imagine the poor light that the ladies had to do the work and also the material is so white and clean. Another couple of pieces belong to Helena's sister-in-law who crocheted collars and cuffs for Irish dancing tunics. All of these pieces of work have Irish roses and shamrocks on them.
We decided on a floral theme this year and everyone pulled out all the stops to come up with unusual ideas for crocheted and knitted garments and other items on the theme of flowers. The photos don't do justice to the work.
Ladder kindly loaned by Mags and the flowers and vines kindly donated by Judith, Niqi's mum. Judith was tasked with crocheting 'just a few' while she was over on holidays a few weeks ago.
It was a warm day so Ermintrude didn't really need her blanket but there were a few very heavy showers of rain!
'THE Bernard' as it has become known was ceremoniously cast off on WWKLIP Day. It had been cast on at last year's WWKIP Day.
This is a very special little flower. Maureen was teaching herself how to do this pattern when news came through about the Manchester Arena explosion. After she had finished the flower Maureen decided to put a single pink button onto the flower to represent each of the 22 lives lost.
Some other flowers seen on the day.
On trend cacti .... Have you noticed them everywhere in the shops, in flower shops, on clothes and in the home decor magazines? Can you see the dinky red watering can tucked away in the background? 
Here's a cheeky little cacti man made by Chloe .... And a bouquet of carnations made by me.
Meet the members of Hookery Group. Elaine started to crochet in February and this is her first piece. It's a labour-of-love blanket for her husband. The Mayor came to pay us a visit too that day on one of his last official visits at the end of his term of office.
Evelyn's smiley little happy flower, from an Attic24 pattern, resting against Niqi's Sunshine and Showers blanket.
Maureen's sunshine flower.
We were lucky enough to have one of our Poppy Pieces on display for our WWKIP Day. It generated lots of discussion from members of the public who were also using the coffee shop that day.
And so to rest ...
