Actually, that title isn’t quite right – it’s not that I’m a bad ecoknitter.  I’m actually a very good ecoknitter.  I’m just a ruddy bad  ecoblogger.  How on earth have five months just whizzed past without a single blog post to let you all know what’s going on in the land of Ecoyarndom?

Right, first and foremost, the most exciting thing on the horizon is the series of workshops I’ve somehow managed to fall into running.  It’s a long story (when is it ever a short story round here?).  I was lucky enough to be taken under the wing of CIDA, the creative industries folks, when I first started out on this yarnie adventure, and they paired me up with a brilliant business mentor by the name of Anne-Marie Logan.  She has by turns goaded, encouraged and bullied me into doing things which I’d never have even thought of.  And these workshops have sprung out of the last two conversations with her.  I can’t call them meetings, as that’s far too official.  We tend to sit and talk practically non-stop for between an hour and two each time we meet.

I’m also running a series of ten evening classes at Doncaster’s Hayfield FE centre from September, Knitting for Beginners. (the website is due to be updated with the new term’s courses shortly).  That was booked first, and Anne-Marie suggested I do a couple of ‘taster’ sessions at this little place she just happened to know in York…  So that’s where you’ll find me, on Monday 13th and 20th of July, from 12pm till 1pm.  If you want to book, go to the Ecoknits Workshop page and you’ll find all the details there.

On the yarn front, hurry over to the Manos del Uruguay page, where I’ve got some of the hard-to-get colours of Silk Blend in stock.  That teal/green/blue 7325 Pisces tends to fly out just as soon as it comes in.  Not surprising really, as it’s pretty gorgeous