Crochet Night

Thanks so much to Jo for hosting us, it was a brilliant night.  After feeling so tired at home that I considered just going for an hour, at the most, we all ended up talking, laughing and crocheting for almost 4 hours.

With all hands busy - some creating hats, some flowers and others fluffing around between a few things (yes that was me) - the dessert was able to be savoured throughout the night.  Great to get to know people better while at the same time learning a skill and adding to our collection of goodies for Canterbury Neo-natal Trust.

Jo is in the process of putting some tutorials up on youtube for those you who were unable to join us.  Yumiko is also donating some more wool, thank you very much, so if you need more wool just let me know and we can arrange a drop off or meet up.

See you all next week at the buggy walk.

Yarn over and away we go

As I arrived today to the crochet workshop the hall was already buzzing with children in the crèche, woman in the kitchen sorting out morning tea and the crochet expert, 92 year old Chester, having friendly and warm conversation. New faces and others I've met before, we all brought our crochet hooks and much enthusiasm to learn to make some baby hats.

After hot drinks and something to eat we gathered around the table having a look at some examples of what we were about to make. Then it was time to watch the pro with how to make a chain, anyone who did not know how to crochet gathered behind Chester, we crowded around. There we where concentrating on the chain, the first of our crochet stitches. Soon after we broke up into smaller groups of 3. Looking around the room I could see clusters of teaching and learning and the beginnings of crochet hats! As for myself, well, I will need a bit more practice, despite the efforts of Yossarian who was teaching me.

After today I've got my head around how crochet works, now it's a matter of getting the wool around the hook and make a treble -easy right?! Others, I'm sure, in no time will have a completed hat, ready to send off to Christchurch. For those of you, Well Done! It was lovely to see everyone work together, a real feeling of community filled the room. We all left with balls of wool and a kit of patterns and how to crochet step by step, ....and talk of another crochet learn together :)

Step to it

This week is our Buggy walk which is planned for Queen Elizabeth Park on Friday however I just got an e-mail saying that Sport Wellington are having one on Thursday 4th Aug, along with free coffee (see information below).  I wondered if, just for this month, people wanted to change the day and go with the Sport Wellington one?  Can those who were intending to come on the walk let me know what they prefer: Thursday with Sport Wellington or Friday with our Group.


Next week will be the crochet workshop, to make some hats for premature babies in Christchurch, and I have already bought enough wool for all of us - I think ;)  If you could bring along your own crochet hook and any wool that you do have (4ply preferably) would be great. You will need a 3.5mm, 4mm or 4.5mm crochet hook. Second hand shops are usually a good place to get them cheap and I have a few extras. At the moment it looks like there will be 10-12 of us which means we can have wee groups of 2 or 3 to learn and work in.  Feel free to bring friends along especially if they know how to crochet - even a little.


Have a good week and see you soon

August Buggy Walk - Thursday 4th August Queen Elizabeth Park - Whareroa Stream Track
Get your friends, family or parent group together and come along to the August Buggy Walk. This will will take participants along the Whareroa Stream Track, which follows the wetlands and goes past the sand dunes. Dogs on leads welcome on this walk.

Start Time: 10.15am meet for a 10.30am start.

How to get there: Stay on SH1 through Paekakariki, enter Queen Elizabeth Park off SH1 at Mackays Crossing

Meet: Meet at the Rangers office

Track: Sand and sealed terrain, rolling terrain with a few inclines, mainly flat.