A knitter's Retreat

I have spent the weekend at "Knitters Camp" at Mt Keira Scout Camp. What a full on weekend of knitting, eating, drinking and catching up with some wonderful people and friends, some I already knew and some I only knew from reading their blogs, it is really great to meet and talk to these people in person. There were workshops on painting on dye, picot and worm edges and felting. There were yarns, yarns, and more yarns, knitting patterns, needles, kits etc for sale aswell.

After a freezing night on friday night, and I did have plenty of warn clothes and bedding, but maybe just not enough we woke to a lovely saturday morning, the one thing about mt keira is that even on a nice sunny winters day, once you get in the shade or the sun goes down over the tall mountain behind the camp the it is bloody cold.

On saturday after a breakfast of firstly porridge with heaps of brown sugar and milk then bacon, eggs and toast we headed up to the Lodge to knit some more and to try our hand a painted dyeing.

We had knitting up squares before the camp in 4ply white pure wool, I knitted enough for a baby beanie. I painted the dye on in bright pink and blue large spots that ran into each other making a nice purple colour. Then when dried I unravelled the knitting into a ball and then knitted a beanie. I got within 3 rows of finishing and ran out of wool. So I had to frog it back to the beginning of the last pattern repeat rows and make it a bit shorter then proceed to finish the beanie. It came out beautifully. I will have photos when Metal and Knit emails them to me. I got my camera out to take a picture before I unravelled the square and guess what....you guessed it....flat batteries. So annoying, I get about 9 photos and then the batteries go flat.

I bought some dark apricot colour 4ply shepherd pure wool to knit my unborn grand daughter a jumper, I got started on that this morning after finishing off the beanie and I am up to the armholes on it.

I won't be getting much knitting done tonight, I will be watching the inside of my eyelids very soon, I am so tired, but a good tired, after so much fun. Thank you to CR&K Daisy Designs at Fairy Meadow for putting on such a wonderful "Knitters Retreat" again this year.

I will leave you with a photo of me (on the right in blue top) and another woman knitting outside with a beautiful view backdrop.