Knitted Fish

We had a really nice craft academy last night  in the York shop, with a lovely apple cake made by Anne, mmm yummy, who also brought along a little friend in a pushchair who sat and watched us all evening and was the sunniest little girl I have ever seen! We also had a new member, so welcome to Ann without an e! We made red work stitcheries this time which are fast and easy (running stitch on osnaburg fabric) so quick results in a short space of time! even before I had got the tea trolley out Margaret who professes to not being able to sew  had traced a design from the new Alicia Paulson book (posy gets cosy blog) Embroidery Companion and was stitching away like mad! me ? I did a rabbit and a feather stitch heart ready to be insets into cushion covers (somebody's christmas pressy?) Anyway...knitted fish? you may ask...well if you are in Scarborough you must go to the Art Gallery  where there is an exhibition called Storm Force and our very own Angela has contributed some knitted fish which are really fab! look at Fin and Gabs blog for more info and pics that Andrea took. There are also ganseys there some of which have been deep fried!!! I love our art gallery, the Atkinson Grimshaw room is my favourite, I may do a post on this artist in the future so that you can all learn a little bit about Scarborough!