Knit & yarn group – Susan and Karla

“I’ve been knitting for 55 years. When grandmother taught me to knit she started with a fairisle jersey! I have a lot of knitting tee-shirts. One of them is: ‘knitting is a bit like the mafia. You know too much so you can’t get out of it. And you can’t get out of it because […]

Knit & yarn group – Leslie, Marjorie, Judith and Jillian

“Well, I never thought about joining a group, I saw Marjorie at the wool shop, and she was wearing something that she had knitted and I said ‘hey, I like your bolero’. And she said ‘I’m starting a knitting group’, and so that’s when I started going because I live in the country, out towards […]

Mary

“I had my daughter when I was a teen. When my daughter was nine months old, my Dad said “it’s time you do something for yourself”. A lady was selling her Baby Shop, so went home to Dad and said “how about this?” We organised it all, I worked nine till three, I made items […]