Charity Knitting Day

Charity Knitting Day

Saturday 9^th March

10.00am to 4.00pm

Come and join us supporting midwives from Hexham General Hospital raising funds for the

Iolanthe Midwifery Trust

Bring your needles and join us to knit baby clothes to be sold in aid of the trust, improving care for mothers, babies and their families.

With tea, coffee and cakes.

At Ready Steady Knit

17b Front Street,Prudhoe

NE42 5HN

Tel; 01661 830671

Knit Easter Eggs and Asparagus

We have just had a big delivery of new books today so if you must take a 5 minute break from your knitting, have a rest and read about your next project. Looking forward to spring, Arne and Carlos new book of Easter knits has the most beautiful knitted eggs in their trademark Scandinavian style. There are also Easter bunnies and chickens too.

This book has lots of ideas for knitted and crocheted flowers and also vegetables, even knitted asparagus. Use them on their own as brooches or decorate a project with one.

The latest in Ros and Elspeth's books from the Homemade series, this one is as nice as the others. Nice just to look at but some lovely projects too.

The 20 to Make series are very good value at only £4.99 each, Knitted baby bootees has everything from traditional to novelty bootees with lovely clear instructions, Great for using up oddments.

We have lots of lovely books in the shop to give you ideas for your next project.

Happy knitting xx

Lovely Weather for Hats

Whether its a knitted head band to keep your ears warm

A super chunky quick knit hat knitted in Denim Ultra

OR a chunky unisex beanie hat

Or even a tiny baby knitted knotted hat  - its definitely the weather to be wearing a hand knitted hat.With patterns and yarns to suit all shapes and sizes we are back to our usual winter opening hours Tuesday to Saturday9.30am to 4.30pm. Call in and get everything you need to knit your own hat.

Spetchells Christmas Fayre

Pauline had been working for years on her stall for the Christmas Fair...

 

 

 

Come and see what we've got for you.

 

 

 

Christmas Fayre at the Spetchells centre, 

Tomorrow 7th December from 4pm - 8pm

Front Street Prudhoe

Knitted Blankets

The latest update on squares knitted for The Big Knitathon has now reached 64 with a little parcel today from Jenny and her friends all the way from Manchester.   At the weekend I will be parceling them all up and posting them off to The Big Issue foundation.

And this has got to be the ultimate in knitted square blankets - we were honored to have a visit from Dorothy and her Debbie Abrahams mystery blanket.  It is absolutely fantastic and beautifully knitted. I particularly like the flags which make up the border. A family heirloom!!

I have been working on something on a much smaller scale - these crocheted stars for our Christmas window. The white ones are made in DMC Natura cotton and the gold one in Twilley's Goldfingering. The Goldfingering comes in gold, silver, green and red and is perfect for making Christmas decorations or knitting in with a plain yarn for extra sparkle. It could be used on a garment too as it is machine washable.

The Big Knitathon- Knitted

 Saturday was a great success, on the day we had a group of 13 knitters who
completed 24 blanket squares  but we had lots of other
knitters who either called in or stopped me on the street to say they will
be knitting squares for us at home so we should be able to send a big parcel
off the The Big Knitathon office.  We were also able to raise £40 for the
Big Issue foundation from tea, cakes and selling vintage knitting patterns.

Across the country there were a total of 66 events with 1400 people joined
together to knit for a good cause.  The Big Blanket, once sewn together,
will be displayed in various locations around the country to raise more
awareness of the big issue foundation. I will let you know if it is visiting the North East.

Thank you to all who took part - from the knitters...

...to the tea makers - a great day for a worth while cause!

 Happy Knitting x

The Big Knitathon

Join us on Saturday when we will be supporting The Big Issue foundation with their world record attempt to get the most people knitting at one time. We will be knitting 6"x6" squares which will be sent off to the foundation to be sewn together for their second world record attempt - The Worlds largest knitted blanket. Bring your needles and wool from your stash to sit and knit with us for an hour or two and support this worth while cause, getting homeless people off the streets and back into employment.

This was our photo from Today's Hexham Courant where we are on the front page!!