Busy fingers but not on the keyboard ...

Although I haven't updated our blog for a while, the fingers at Epping have been very busy. We continue to meet weekly with a core group of 12 - 16 each week. We seem to grow noisier each week but no one complains (at least not to us!). For a while we seemed to be making inroads into the squares that we have knitted and been donated, and completed rugs have appeared out of them, but suddenly we seem to have a huge number waiting to be sewn together again!

One of the biggest problems we have when creating rugs from assorted squares, is finding 28 squares that co-ordinate colourwise, and that are all the same size! I don't know why it is so hard to knit two squares that are identical in size - I have trouble too - but some of it must be due to the variety of yarns we use, as well as the different tensions of the many knitters. We seem to manage though, and as you can see from the photos, we go to great lengths to not waste anything.

Here is a magnificent crocheted rug and it's clever maker, Kris:

Another rug put together by Kris, who has a very good eye for colour. The variegated crocheted edging looks particularly good with the colours of the rug: