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20100223 Tuesday February 23, 2010

Knit Expo – knitting in Exeter

Top half is a picture of Exeter high street, bottom half is bright pink. Full length picture of the Mona Lisa with balls of yarn in her arms wearing jeans and stripy socks. Head line 'Knit Expo' and words including details of the event which are in the copy below

Knitting, live performances and art created on the spot all meet at Knit Expo 2010 in Exeter.

The event is taking knitting out of the workbox and into the limelight with a mix of stalls, knit-ins and cabaret. Offering learning and teaching, sharing and swapping, watching and doing and buying and selling it looks like a great day out for knitters with attitude.

Workshops and classes cost just £5 and cover a range of topics from 'How to knit' through creative writing to 'How to sell on the internet'.

Knit Expo takes place at the Exeter Phoenix art centre on 17 April 2010 from 2-8pm. Tickets cost £6 (concessions £4.50). Under 12s go free and participants are encouraged to bring their knitting, whether beginner or expert. For more information visit the Knit Expo website or call the box office on 01392 667080.

If you're a maker and would like to sell your work at Knit Expo, then please visit the website to find out more and book a table – they cost just £20.

Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!

 
 Miriam McDonald Simply Knitting's Production Editor
Miriam McDonald
Simply Knitting's
Production Editor

Have you ever noticed how loads of knitting projects all seem to happen at once? You have one or two things to knit, and then your list shoots up overnight and you have eight things to knit within a short time. Project lists are like Jack's magic beans, you go to sleep and they're tiny, and somehow when you wake up you've got a beanstalk on your hands.

I suppose it depends on whether you're a one-project or many-projects sort of knitter; I like to have two things on the needles at any one time, a big garment for home and socks for carrying around. Many-project knitters probably cast on all sorts of things at once, thereby shrinking their lists. I went visiting family last weekend, and have come back with requests for socks and bedsocks. Also, Chrissie at Injabulo is collecting knits for Pebbles Project, a scheme in South Africa's winelands working with disadvantaged children, especially those whose lives are affected by alcohol, and I want to make something for that. (Look at those kids! How could anyone with a spare minute and spare yarn not want to pop a hat or woolly jumper on them?) Now my little list of things to knit has turned into a great big list of things to knit.

Anyone else got a list that's looking like Jack's beanstalk? I bet if there is a giant at the top of mine, he probably wants socks too!

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