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World Wide Knit in Public

Thank you so much to everyone who came out into the sunshine last Saturday to

join us knitting in public at "World Wide Knit In Public Day 2011".  The sun made a very welcome appearance as we all gathered in the Westbury Gardens in Bradford-on-Avon. 

Our youngest knitter was a 5 year old who was really on her way to the swimming pool, we

managed to divert her and she was very happy to sit with Miss Elle to learn the

basics all the way up to our most experience knitter Sheila, whose age I am, of

course, not at liberty to disclose!

There were some beautiful projects on the go, ranging from tea cosies to shawls.  Naturally

Miss Elle was sporting her very stunning Veil of Isis, she also did a spot of drop

spinning along with Helen (KnitCave) impressing all!

We managed to persuade people to come from beyond the Bradford-on-Avon boundaries,

Bridgwater, Bath, Corsham and even Australia - not bad for our first event!  Miss Elle, Eleni and Knit Cave

have posted some photos over on their blogs, do take a peek.

I just wanted to say an extra thank you to Caroline who appeared with perfect timing to rescue me

wrestling banners and gazebo - I was so very pleased to see you!

Jumble Jelly's biggest compliment to date!!!

From day one, we have wanted Jumble Jelly to provide the mouth-watering appeal of a sweetie shop with lots of bright and cheerful colours, from buttons to wools to fabrics to cotton reels to crafting kits.

Well only last week, less than 2 months in, we received our biggest compliment yet!! Someone confused Jumble Jelly with one of the largest colourful jelly bean confectioners in the world!!!!  Yes, we were completely over-whelmed (and bemused)! 

Jelly Belly sell the most delightful colours and flavours of jelly beans and are the high profile American brand, selling jelly bean candy worldwide.

Our motivation is refuelled and we can take on the world!!!....one day we are a local Bradford-on-Avon shop, next we are being compared and confused with a global phenomenon!

But a warning just in case (!!):  Our products (including colourful buttons, fabrics, cottons reels and mouthwatering wools) are NOT edible!!!! 

Thank you for the compliment. 

Do come and see for yourselves, visit Jumble Jelly, 10 Silver Street, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, BA15 1JY (near the City of Bath, Somerset).  http://www.jumblejelly.com/.

Just in case,

on 

World Wide Knit in Public Day

there's a little black rain cloud

Make your way to the shop where we will knit & crochet in 

the dry! 

World Wide Knit in Public 2011

Jumble Jelly would like to invite you to Knit In Public!!

(but feel free to crochet too!)

We will be gathering in the Westbury Gardens in Bradford on Avon (outside the Tourist Information Centre, opposite the Library, a mere second’s walk from the train station!)

on Saturday 11th June 2011 from 11am-3pm.

So come along with your pic nic rug & munchies, knitting needles & yarn to meet lots more knitters and crochet nuts, have lots fun.

Here’s to a fabarooo day!

SHORN!!!

The sun shone (honestly) not for long but long enough for Jumble and Jelly to be

enticed into the hurdles.  They are rather partial to sheep nuts, not off the

ground of course, only by hand!

So the shearing began.  Poor Jelly wasn't completely convinced being wrestled to the ground by

a stranger to have her fleece removed - the indignation!  Although a stranger to her

Steven Bennett's help was very much appreciated by us, we have

not tried our hand at shearing yet and decided that taking up an offer of help

would be a good idea!  Jelly had no idea of how she could have looked without his help.

But here she is, Jelly sporting her new summer look - very trendy I think.

Soon to follow was Jumble, who looks rather proud of his appearance.

I'm not sure it was entirely fair of our two pigs (Millie & Amelia) to stand

and laugh but by now I think Jumble & Jelly were just relieved that the ordeal was over.

Ramblings of a yarn geek in cyberspace

I can talk about yarn for days, I can crochet up a blizzard of snowflakes all in the time it takes Mr Jumble to watch a movie, hook a scarf and matching mittens on a wet Sunday afternoon.  I have had a fabric stash for many years, long before I was given a sewing machine - something about textiles makes me giddy and excited, my heart gets jittery at the mere thought of some hooky time. 

A cup of tea and an inspirational book full of colour, textures and new ways of exploring textiles is my idea of utopia.

But computers, YUCK,  my words dry up, the interest is lost and my brain begins to ache.  I think really it's a fear, computers seem to think for themselves when you least expect it and yet when you want to find something it's gone!

So when Jumble Jelly found itself of Facebook I very quickly and happily gave this to Mrs Jelly - she is much better at Facebook than I am.  My personal account (as all my friends there will testify) is shockingly neglected.  I am probably missing something wonderful but I'd rather have a skein of yarn......

Then Jumble Jelly went on Twitter, it was only fair for me to take some responsibility.  I duly learnt my username and password and learnt how to Tweet!  I was so very proud of myself, I am even able to achieve this unsupervised and with no direction or instruction. That immense pride and self worth came tumbling down around me when only a few days ago I discovered that my cyber skills are still sadly way behind my youngest child.  I have spent the last few weeks completely unaware that lovely people out there had sent messages, tried engaging in conversation with us, all without my knowledge meaning they got no response.

I am so sorry but you see I am just a yarn geek in a world way beyond my comfort zone, desperate to spend all my days talking hooks, yarn and fabric but I apologise for my appalling cyber skillls and promise that I will try to be better or if that fails ply Mrs Jelly with chocolate brownies and make such a bad job of it that she will feel compelled to rescue the general public from the yarn geek!

On a more cheery note Jumble & Jelly (the woolly ones, not myself and Mrs Jelly) have a rather big day ahead of them tomorrow - it's shearing day!  We are hoping for a warm and sunny day so that losing their fleecy coats is not too much of a shock.  I promise to update with pictures tomorrow evening.