"Apart from the weather...

...Powys has a lot going for it." (Quote of the week from the B&R Express)

So I was stomping down the road, with my brolly up - Islay had stayed, sensibly, at home - when a passing chap said, "I saw you on telly last night." He said it had been quite interesting, and Bryn Terfel had been on it.
I missed the One Show because I went to Stitch and Bitch instead. There's been something of a hiatus over the summer, but last night was a big meeting for the start of the autumn. Tracy was doing cabling with whoever wanted to learn. She went off with Richard Booth over the summer solstice. Somehow, Richard never quite remembers that you no longer work for him, when you leave, so Tracy got a phone call asking if she wanted to go with him to Norway for the summer solstice and a bookfair - and would she book the tickets, and it was in two days time! She went, of course, and had a marvellous time.
Sara and I got chatting to Emanation, who is crocheting a jumper for her five year old. She said she found it far easier than knitting ("and there's only one stitch to drop"), and the pattern was quite impressive, with a swirling star on a pentagon. Two of these pieces fold over to make the arms - and it's in bright orange because that's what the five year old asked for. Sara said she found cabling easy, but she hadn't been able to get to grips with crochet, despite Jenny's teaching session earlier in the year, so we're all going to get together next week and have another go.
Meanwhile, one of the ladies has a husband with a minibus driving licence, so the idea of having a day out to Collinette in Welshpool has re-surfaced, using the money in store from our meetings at Wool and Willow. It's probably going to be in November.
We also have a programme of events worked out, for the first Thursdays of the month, with Any Stitch on 2nd October, so anyone can bring along a knitting stitch to learn, or brush up on ones that we've tried out before.
6th November and 4th December are Scumbling. Val is very keen on this, and creates some amazing patterns with crocheting - and it's good for using up odd bits of wool, too. So it's something fun to get us in the mood for Christmas.