It was held at the Yorkshire Showground, a huge exhibition area that's mostly fields. I don't have a car so I caught the bus to Harrogate and then a second bus to the grounds. The bus drops you off on the main road and it's a long, long walk to the actual building, but a nice walk.
£8 to get in, with some extra speakers on through the day. If you're going tomorrow, don't bother buying the programme. I bought one expecting it to list the extra events, but it is just a list of exhibitors and some adverts. In fact, the door security was so lacking I even wondered if it was worth buying a ticket, since no one checked whether anyone walking straight in had one! However, I did pay, since it's important to support British wool whenever possible.
I just want to give some quick notes on the day and go further into them in later posts (I have a new found determination to blog a LOT more).
What was big this year was big needles and hooks, and I mean BIG!
I appologise for the lighting on the photo, for some reason my camera was playing up and a lot of my photos are too messed up to show.
Do you see the log thingie on the right? That's the knitting needle. Yep, Huge. I think they're using strips of blankets as yarn.
This is The Big Knit fundraising event for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. More information is found here The Big Knit.
For a small donation you too, can do a few stitches on the worlds largest knitting needles.
Big knitting was everywhere. In some way I can see the benefit, a row of stitches is an inch in length, so people like me that don't like to make large projects due to the time. But I also see many downsides for me. I noticed the first stall selling a ball of ultra size wool for £30 a ball, yep, that price was right. So not a cheap knit. Also the crochet hooks were around 4-5 feet in length, not something you can slip into your handbag.I seriously considered buying a hook, but only as a display on the stall.
The circular needles on the left seem to be wooden handles on a bit of hose pipe. For £20 I think someone's having a laugh.
I finally met April. I don't know if I've told you about her yet, so I won't say anything about her now, another day though.
Future blogs I plan from today include Angora rabbits, woolen duvets, football rattle spinning, luchets and finger looms, Purists and more about April.
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