Alyssa’s latest creation

Alyssa’s knitting skills will never cease to amaze.  Her latest creation is a beautiful allover with quite a traditional pattern.  However, once again she has put her own spin on it with a very unusual patterned bask and picot edging. We’re going to really miss seeing her new projects on such a regular basis 🙁

Fond Farewells

The Maakin and Yakkin group say a very fond farewell to Alyssa Malcolmson and Emma Eunson who both left school in June.  These are two excellent knitters.  Alyssa has produced two beautiful (prize winning) allovers in her time with the group, along with many other garments.  Emma is also a prolific knitter and could always be seen sitting quietly knitting around the school.  They are both working on beautiful yoked jumpers at the moment, seen in this photo.

We wish them all the best with their future careers and hope very much that they will continue to visit us and take part in our “Tak your Sock” nights.

Rhiannon’s pin cushion

Rhiannon Taylor’s knitting skills continue to go from strength to strength.  Having finished her iphone cover she cast on a pin cushion on Wednesday 24th April during activities.  By the end of the day on Thursday 25th April she had finished.  Rhiannon picked the colours and pattern herself and completed the whole project with very little help from anybody.  Watch this space to see what her next project will be.

Maakin and Yakkin during Activities

Maakin and Yakkin was available again this year as an all day activity on 24th and 25th May.  Pupils could do one or both days.  Each day started with a knitting session in the morning at school. Mrs Hunter brought along her fancy coffee machine so everybody was treated to posh coffee or tea and some homebakes. In the afternoons there were visits to a local wool shop and cafe.  On Thursday afternoon the knitters met up with the local knitting group at Mareel and everybody had a great time sharing ideas and admiring each others handiwork.   There were a few “FO”s during the two days with both Millie and Rhiannon finishing phone covers. Rhiannon then went on to start and finish a fair isle pin cushion for her mum.  Very impressive!! Other participants were introduced to fair isle and knitting in the round for the first time.