Redbridge crafts

Ever had the feeling that spring will never come? Still the groups are all going along nicely with new members at every meeting and we have dispatched parcels to the Redbridge Night Shelter and Loving hands charity. Lots of new projects are being started – my latest will be a costume to wear at the next Discworld event at Wincanton on May 1st – full Morris dancers kit in pink!

Meeting space at Wanstead will be at a premium for the next month as our usual space is booked by fee paying groups so we will be migrating round the building for a quiet corner – still if we are in the main part of the building it might lead to more members

In a library you can really get a distorted sense of the passing of time. When the three week issue date hits a bank holiday the computer says to itself “oh I have to give them an extra week”  over the Christmas period, of course, you get consecutive bank holidays so some lucky people have an extra fortnight to read their books. All of our groups in the libraries will be taking a break over the Christmas period and will restart in January. My own group in Wanstead will be the last to meet on 17th December.  The Keith Axon Centre group, Fulwell Cross and Ilford Groups all meet between 4th and 9th January and would welcome new members for the new year.

 My own projects are going well with only one scarf and the games board to finish before Christmas. After Christmas I have a couple of months costume making before the new reenactor season.

Redbridge libraries will be running an event called Get Creative as part of the Learning Revolution Festival. At Fullwell Cross Library from 10am – 3.30pm

On 31st October you can come and find out about all sorts of clubs in Redbridge. i will be there promoting the Knit/Craft and natter groups and we hope to have representatives of music, drama and wargaming groups there as well.

I look forward to seeing you there

I have a group of about 8 regulars, all very keen knitters mostly, and a few bring along a friend occasionally. So far they are happy just to use the time for swapping patterns and ideas and introducing their other clubs and interests to each other. A couple from the Art Club here offered the rest spaces on their coming coach trip next week which were eagerly taken up. So I feel that our members are getting the opportunity to make new friends and take up other interests, which I guess was the original idea. They were all quite disappointed that there would be no group in August as school hols. Our next meeting is fixed 10 – 11.30am Thurs. September 10th