Knitting - Allsorts and bits of everything

****** Update - WE WON the Christmas tree competition ******

It's been a busy week, lots on, not too much Christmas prep done, but I have had fun knitting for Master Laurie.  He requested a fair isle slipover/tank/vest a while back and I finally got to it in my list of knitting requests.

The pattern was a basic vest and I then used a fair isle design from the Alice Starmore Fair isle knitting book. The yarn used was Sirdar Snuggly DK, plus some odds and ends of other DK for some of the pattern.

Today I popped down to our local church St Andrews, Swavesey, to check out the annual Christmas Tree Festival.  The Monday craft group I go to - Crafty Ladies, entered a tree in conjunction with Swavesey WI.
We decided that it would be good to make a tree that could be donated to charity and help those less fortunate than ourselves. Who knew there were so many shades of green?

There are prizes for the best tree, voting end tomorrow afternoon, here are some of the other entrants, firstly the children

Swavesey Playtimers

1st Swavesey Rainbows

1st Swavesey Cubs

then the adults

Bethel Baptist Church

Jenny Summerton

Jill Holland

What next? - the village was on fire literally, on Wednesday evening.  The local pub, The White Horse, arranged a charity Fire Walking event for - Hero's Children's cancer charity.  Our friend Janet decided she would have a go, crazy, yes!  Here she is in action.  The local paper came and they put up a video and photos too

Tomorrow the girls and I are off to Birmingham to see Simply Red in concert and a bit of retail therapy beforehand.  Next week is crazy busy.... at some point I will get the tree dressed, its bought, installed in the barn but that's as far as we have got......

Bluebells Florist

Yesterday, Jess and I popped to see my sister in law Sara in her florist shop.  I had been meaning to go for a while to take some photos for her Facebook page.

Sara opened her shop at the back end of the summer and is enjoying being her own boss.  The Shop is situated in the grounds of Cranbrook Plants, Colne Rd, Somersham, where there is also a craft shop, beautician and tearooms.

Sara stocks a good selection of fresh flowers, and is an Interflora and iflorist accredited florist.  She also has many seasonal offerings, wreaths, table centres, Christmas decorations and handmade greetings cards. Here are some photos of what Sara sells, check out her Facebook page for more photos and details of opening hours, prices and contact information.

November in pictures

Yikes another month has come and gone.  What did we do last month? Quite a bit of knitting, our trip to Southwold, baking and crafting with the grandkids, and some preserving.

Now it's December, what do you have planned?  I have several Christmas meals out, a Simply Red concert in Birmingham with the girls.... exciting. Visits and shopping.  A busy month. Have fun with whatever you are doing.