WWKIP

Well, WWKIP has been and gone and I have been very behind in posting - life gets in the way, sometimes. We had a great day at Epping Library on 17th June - 41 people turned up - some from the knitting groups at Epping and Hornsby and some from people who had seen the signs in the libraries.

The level of interaction was a joy to behold:

Thanks to the wonderful librarians we were able to have the library for an hour before the normal opening time and so could have the use of the staff room for our morning tea - with so much food brought by the Epping group that we were able to leave the staff room supplied with goodies for the next few days. The library was decorated with balloons, knitted flowers and rugs courtsey of Sue, Mani and Deni of the library staff, and Kris and Vida from the Epping group.

Above: Sue and Mani
The library display case had a suitably woolly display, arranged by Deni - thank you Deni!

And we always like to recognise the local North Epping Bendigo Community Bank who provided us with a generous grant in the last funding round, to buy wool for our charity knitting:


Our lucky door prize was donated by Nicola and Linda of "Note to Self", a beautiful, local gift shop in Epping, and the lucky winner was delighted with her beautiful pamper pack :

There was only one competition - to guess the number of tightly wound balls of yarn in a large glass container - the lucky, or perhaps I should say clever winner - guessed 280 (the exact number was 282!). An incredible achievement as some of those balls were VERY tiny. Here's a phot of our librarian, Sue, reading out the number of balls - with the container of balls in the background:

The generosity of a number of other businesses and people meant that a large number of people went home with a goodie bag. On behalf of the lucky prizewinners. I'd like to thank also, Celia from Ravelry who donated two beautiful, soft skeins of hand-dyed yarn and some stitch markers from her online shop Celia's Basket; Sally, Pompom on Ravelry, who donated three WWKIP bags and a luscious skein of Ms Gusset sock wool; Jen who attends our group for the two books from her library - there were a few disappointed winners who were too late to grab these!. I have a feeling that Jen donated some yarn too, but these were donated on the day and in the rush I didn't note it down - apologies, Jen, if this is the case :-). Yarn magazine very kindly donated a copy of Embellish and Felt - I was so impressed with Embellish that I went and bought myself a copy at the Craft Fair! Thank you to the girls from Yarn. There were also some hand-knitted facecloths each tied up with a cake of yummy smelling soap; some Patonyle sock yarn and a scarf kit of Victoria ribbon and Adriafil Brio Fantasy yarn. Congratulations to all our winners and thank you to our generous donors!

The day ended with a catchy, happy performance on the harmonica, by one of our Hornsby group visitors:

Thank you everyone who attended, everyone who contributed to the running of the day and everyone who donated prizes, for making it such a great day - let's hope we see you all again next year on WWKIP day - provided, of course, that our wonderful librarians and the other library users don't object!!!!
Here are some more photos of some of our lucky winners: