A picture of a sheep for Woolly Wormhead. It’s actually a rucksack. This won the local Guild competition a couple of years ago, made from double stranded aran weight handspun Jacobs.













The walking holiday in Malhamdale was fab. The Holiday Fellowship place was grand but cosy. They aim for a Country House atmosphere which works fine for me though the place was packed with a load of bridge players who also walked, and us who just walked. This meant that mealtimes were a little loud and you could really only talk to your immediate neighbour at the table. I sat with a mixture of people. I did the harder walks on the first couple of days and then the medium on the last day. My muscles are just about starting to forgive me. The Yorkshire dales are beautiful with stone walls and barns in every other field for the cattle to overwinter. The second day was all the famous sights of Malhamdale – Garsdale Scar (which we didn’t scramble up as it was too wet and our leader didn’t want to risk it), Malham Tarn and Malham Cove. The limestone pavement at the top of the Coves is plain weird. I have been before but it was years ago.

As I was the youngest person staying, I entertained them by knitting. The WIP was my dad’s jumper (mark 2). This is the blue I dyed but each of the three batches was slightly different so I am knitting with three balls of wool on the go. Quite a few other women said they knitted but none had brought theirs along.


And this is the Brea Bag I knitted with Peruvian wool which my lovely Secret Pal Mo sent me. It's a really nice design to knit as you cast on for the circumference and then decrease. I am someone who hates knitting sleeves in the usual way of increasing every few rows.