Knit August Nights - Napier 2011

I attended 'Knit August Nights 2011' event in Napier over the weekend with about 60 fibreholics!  Noone would know it is still winter in New Zealand - we were all in T-shirts all weekend soaking up the sunshine!  We had various workshops, a trader's market, plenty of knitting and socialising time, and a group meal with a knitter's quiz night which was a lot of fun (especially as our team won!).  Amongst those attending were regular knitters, spinners, knitting shop owners, fibre dyers, artisan yarn dyers, a magazine author and a rather talented spindle maker.  All in all a very interesting group of people from all over New Zealand!

This was the view from the workshop on Friday afternoon - I did an Entrelac workshop, followed by a very useful shawl construction workshop on the Saturday which will come in very useful for my designs.

On Saturday we had a factory tour of a woollen mill which, having become a spinner in the last year, I found fascinating seeing the process on a large scale - I had to hold back from diving in with all of that lovely soft squishy fibre and yarn!!

And.... I spent far too much!  here is some of the yarn/fibre that I bought... it was all far too tempting!!  I have consoled myself that at least 5 of the lots of yarn are for designs I am working on - good excuse to splurge!!