The Future of Stitch and Bitch

There was a big turn out last night to talk about the group, and how we all want it to develop. One of the things we decided was to use the first Thursday of every month for demonstrations and informal teaching, while the rest of the time we just bring our own projects and chat as normal. Several people said they'd be prepared to teach techniques they know, so our spring programme is as follows:
April 6th, Liz and Tracy will demonstrate knitting on four needles and knitting with circular needles.
May 1st, Val will demonstrate Fair Isle (people will need to bring along several different coloured wools to join in with that one)
June 5th, Jenny will demontrate crochet.
The circular needles should go down well with at least one new member. When the group started, quite a lot of people left their names and phone numbers at the Wool and Willow shop, and when I rang round, it reminded one lady that she would quite like to start knitting again. Her name is Amanda, and she still has a strong New Zealand accent, despite living in the UK for many years. She's also blind, but she used to knit when she was sighted, so she has a head start in learning again. She went away with a borrowed set of circular needles, saying that she wanted to get the wool and start NOW.
I've never tried crochet, but after seeing the blanket that Val brought, all in creams and browns and made of lots of different sized squares linked together with crochet, I think I want to learn now.
Jenny brought some wonderful stuff too. Most of the time, she has left us to do ballroom dancing with her husband, which is on the same evening. And she's in a music group, and she does watercolour painting at Doll's House Fun. She's been experimenting with her peg loom, though, and brought a lovely little evening cape with lots of fluffy sparkly bits round the edge, all done as wedges on the peg loom and then stitched together. She also had a hat, and a scarf done with a Rowan (or possibly Collinette) yarn which is more of a narrow ribbon, all multicoloured and velvety.