All good things...

 Perhaps if contextualised by the gentle art of hookery the notion of all good things coming to an end is not quite as wistful as generally thought. Here is a very good thing come to an end and off soon to a one-year old in France. He'll be cosy, and his onlookers rapt with a piece of real Irish Aran! Made by Catherine.

 Made for Catherine. A not professionally good thing that Mags has been working on for Catherine's birthday- the 2013 birthday. The Crochet pattern was ready in time, but it took a year and a month to sort the sewing. (Thanks, Dorothy, for giving up a whole evening to sort me out and Happy Two Birthdays, Catherine!)

 Made by Catherine for Rowan. Catherine's working-at-the-Edinburgh-festival-and-we-are-jealous son turned 21 recently, and Catherine made him socks. Encouragingly for tardy bag makers, one sock was ready for his birthday.

 Now they are both ready, but they just haven't quite made it to the Festival yet. We're pretty sure he will when they do.

Meet Bosco

I saw this in a copy of Let's Knit Magazine recently and just had to give it a go.

Blanket coverage

Blankets have been the BIG theme over recent weeks and here are a few of the major projects complete at last  -

Queen Niqi's berry blanket
- renamed fairytale blanket by Mags

Heather Boss's blanket for baby Evie

Angela's Hombolo blanket with the
blanket's deliverer and the carrier to
Hombolo next October.

 Mags' Nanny McPhee otherwise 

known as the Mags McPheedy blanket

Heather Boss's latest project

Queen Niqi's Aran McPhee - phase one

Phase one finished - as you can see there was a degree of evolution involved in the joining of the squares.

Grannies' meeting

Well now ladies, what have we here?  A grannies' meeting?  Last night it was a tad cold in the church hall and one by one people seemed to be wrapping themselves up.  And very useful the big blankets turned out to be too!

First it was Anne with the Fairytale Blanket

Then Gillain almost completely covered herself in Aran McPhee but that's OK because Gillian has been feeling a bit under the weather and this was her first night with us in ages

Barbara had her latest ripple blanket over her knees - lovely bright colours

Leigh was 'just trying out' Fleg for Queen Niqi

And Karen was measuring her Learning to Crochet blanket against Heather's Cappucino Aran  blanket for size

But the highlight of the evening was planning THE party of the season.  An evening not to be missed on 5th  June when Hookery at Coffee Dock will reach the mega-heights of one year old.  Yes, hard to believe but Hookery will have been meeting outside The Bookery for a whole year.  At our party we will have sweets and savouries, home-made ice cream, non-alcoholic cordials and, of course, cake.  We may even dress up for the occasion and you may be treated to facial photographs once again, not seen since we played dinner guests to the Brownies when they did their Hostess Badge earlier in the year.

Two of the original Hookery 3 had been no longer required to serve in The Bookery a few months ago and now Member 3 has also been discharged from her Bookery duties.  The three will once again be united on a Wednesday evening.  Looking forward to that.

See you next week :-)