So it appears to be that time of the year again, "What time?" I hear you ask, well the BISC annual knitting afternoon of course! This year was a great success, starting shortly after 2:30 six brave international girls and a couple of foolish guys from the CU started knitting or rather didn’t! It took about 25 min to learn the first stitch called "casting on" though it wasn't our teachers Pat's fault that there was only one of her and eight of us.
After the first few mistakes and lots of snacks later we were all adept at casting on except me, I couldn’t seem to get it at all but then help arrived in the form of Camilla! Camilla taught me the Peruvian way of knitting (everyone else was learning the English way) and I must say I found it a lot easier! Not too long after Camilla's arrival everyone had learnt the next stitch "plain stitch" and later some were adept enough to learn "pearl stitch". I only progressed to plain stitch but got quite a bit of knitting done before I had to leave at 4:00. I was very pleased with what I had learnt, we all agreed that once a year was too long a time between knitting sessions and a monthly knitting session was proposed so watch this space!
Our thanks for Joe Bain for the blog blurb.
