Save The Children think I’m a popular and “on trend” knit blogger! In fact I am, apparently, one of the Knitterati!!

With flattery like that, how could I say, “No” to their invitation to spend an evening with them and Debbie Bliss at their “Mary’s Living and Giving” shop in Primrose Hill, North London?

Save the Children were launching their Christmas Jumper day fundraising campaign and wanted to launch it with the help of knitters.  On 14th December, more than 250,000 people (and counting!) will be wearing a festive woolly to school, offices and workplaces all across the UK, with everyone taking part donating £1 to Save the Children.

From Save the Children

It’s a fab idea and resonates with us knitters 🙂 Details of the campaign are here if you’re interested or even want to get your office joining in :- Christmas Jumper Day

There’s even free patterns if you want to knit your own Christmas jumper 🙂

There’s a Facebook page and a twitter tag too…

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/xmasjumperday
• Twitter: #xmasjumperday

So what happened on the night?

Firstly the shop was not your normal charity shop – so trendy and cool – I’ve already made a mental note to return on weekend for a proper look around! The “Mary’s Living and Giving Shops” were set up by Mary Portas in 2009 – more details here on the ethos and other shops around the country: Mary’s living and Giving

Here’s a shot inside…

From Save the Children

No sooner than I had been welcomed, found a seat and been given nibbles and a glass of wine, a fellow blogger, Nat from Misadventures in Craft came over to say, “Hello” as I was the first knit blog she ever read 🙂 I also am guilty of introducing her the Kidsilk Haze 🙂 🙂 🙂 **Waves to Nat in Blogland**  I was dumbfounded that I had a fan 🙂

I sat , knit, drank, nibbled chatted to other bloggers, especially Gemma of The Knitting Fraggle **Waves to Gemma in Blogland**

Here’s a piccy of Nat, Gemma and I at the great event…

From Save the Children

Debbie Bliss had designed some Christmas Egg cosy patterns for use to work on at the event – I was given a lovely baggie of Debbie Bliss Rialto yarn (I’d not used this before – lovely “sprongy” yarn) and patterns to make these cuties all in pretty Christmassy baggies…

From Save the Children

And I diligently set about making the green fair-isle mini-jumper here…

From Save the Children

Debbie Bliss was there to chat with us and she bought her friend, Trisha Malcolm, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Knitting too (!) but unfortunately Debbie  couldn’t help  with the knitting – she’d broken her wrist! Poor Debbie – that’s pretty harsh for a knitter 😳

From Save the Children

It was pointed out (after a couple of glasses of wine)  that these also looked rather good on the neck of a wine bottle too!! I think mine are going to end up on the Christmas tree….

I didn’t manage to finish mine on the night (too busy socializing) but did get a fair-isle front and back done and had to pose for a “proper photo” with my front- I think these are going to be my commuting knitting next week…

From Save the Children

I had a wonderful time, met some knitting icons and this fun group of knit-bloggers…

From Save the Children

If you want to check out the Save The Children’s Knitterati blogs, here they are…
http://angharadhandmade.blogspot.co.uk/

http://beeandbuzz.blogspot.co.uk/

http://chichidee.yolasite.com/

http://shoreditchsisters.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.misadventuresincraft.com/

http://www.iheartteachingart.com/

 http://www.theknitter.co.uk/ and http://simplyknitting.themakingspot.com/ and http://mylifeinknitwear.com/

http://dorothydoes.tumblr.com/

http://theknittingfraggle.blogspot.com

http://planetpenny.co.uk/

http://www.handmadenest.co.uk/