If you love to knit socks – and, let's face it, once you've started knitting socks, it's impossible to stop – you'll already have heard about Cookie A's super sock designs. Her book, Sock Innovation, is due out, and London yarn supplier Loop will be hosting the book launch on Sunday 5 April from 4-6pm. You'll be able to meet Cookie A and buy copies of Sock Innovation, and if you don't fancy ordering individual patterns from the US, Loop also stocks Cookie A patterns here in the UK.
Entry to the book launch is free, but if you want to go please call Loop on 0207 288 1160 to let them know you'd like to attend as space in the shop is not unlimited.
Wednesday March 11, 2009 FREE ENTRY! Cookie A book launch at Loop
Simply Stalking
Knit socks, meet a well-loved celebrity!
There's a story to this picture: Test Match Special is what got me into cricket (I enjoyed listening to TMS before I started watching the sport). Traditionally, fans send cakes up to the commentary box. However, my husband and I, after two long and very tedious years of saving, were going to Barbados to watch England versus West Indies and I knew that if a cake was even allowed through customs, it would still have to survive a long flight and several days in a hotel room. The only cake I could think of that would go through all that and not poison people at the end was Indestructible Wedding Cake, and I wasn't about to inflict that on anyone. (Honestly, six months after the wedding we finally admitted we never wanted to eat another slice and threw the rest of ours out. It's lurking in landfill somewhere, waiting for the day an archaeologist digs it up. It'll probably be as (in)edible then.)
Last summer the England team ditched their traditional cricket jumpers in favour of far less sexy fleecy things, so I decided to design and make a pair of 'cricket socks' to give to Jonathan Agnew instead of a cake. England may have ditched the jumpers, but cricket knits will never die! As anyone who's knitted to a deadline knows, it took right up until the last minute, and the other guests at the hotel asked what I was knitting. By a sheer stroke of luck one of them was a lovely lady who works for BBC Radio, and she took my husband and me into the media centre at the Kensington Oval to give them to Aggers in person.
He seemed really pleased with the socks, and not at all taken aback by having some chubby, sweaty woman giving him handknits. Aggers is every bit as gentlemanly in person as he is on the air. If I was a bit of a TMS fan before, I'm a dedicated one now!
I wonder what I'd have to knit to gain admittance to the England dressing room...
There's a story to this picture: Test Match Special is what got me into cricket (I enjoyed listening to TMS before I started watching the sport). Traditionally, fans send cakes up to the commentary box. However, my husband and I, after two long and very tedious years of saving, were going to Barbados to watch England versus West Indies and I knew that if a cake was even allowed through customs, it would still have to survive a long flight and several days in a hotel room. The only cake I could think of that would go through all that and not poison people at the end was Indestructible Wedding Cake, and I wasn't about to inflict that on anyone. (Honestly, six months after the wedding we finally admitted we never wanted to eat another slice and threw the rest of ours out. It's lurking in landfill somewhere, waiting for the day an archaeologist digs it up. It'll probably be as (in)edible then.)
Last summer the England team ditched their traditional cricket jumpers in favour of far less sexy fleecy things, so I decided to design and make a pair of 'cricket socks' to give to Jonathan Agnew instead of a cake. England may have ditched the jumpers, but cricket knits will never die! As anyone who's knitted to a deadline knows, it took right up until the last minute, and the other guests at the hotel asked what I was knitting. By a sheer stroke of luck one of them was a lovely lady who works for BBC Radio, and she took my husband and me into the media centre at the Kensington Oval to give them to Aggers in person.
He seemed really pleased with the socks, and not at all taken aback by having some chubby, sweaty woman giving him handknits. Aggers is every bit as gentlemanly in person as he is on the air. If I was a bit of a TMS fan before, I'm a dedicated one now!
I wonder what I'd have to knit to gain admittance to the England dressing room...
