In our Knit & Knatter session today we looked briefly at creating an Allsorts pattern. It typifies us really: we are all one community but made up of various shapes (No, I’m not being rude 😉 ) sizes and types – but all equally loveable. OK, there may be one of those Allsorts you don’t really like, but we can share that one, can’t we?
Here is the pattern for them:
What you need
4mm Needles
Various wool scraps
Instructions
Pink or Yellow Roll
Using black cast on 4 stitches
Stocking stitch 1 inch
Then change to either pink or yellow and continue in garter stitch for another 5 inches and cast off.
Roll up with black in the centre and sew into place.
Liquorice roll
Using black cast on 5 stitches and stocking stitch 4 inches. Cast off.
Roll up and sew into place.
Liquorice rock
Using white cast on 5 stitches and stocking stitch 1 inch,
Change wool to black and continue in stocking stitch for another 3 inches. Cast off. And Roll up!
Mandy has spoken of Liquorice Allsorts before here. She said then:
Let’s not limit people’s abilities by what they appear to excel in.
We had a poem
My knitting is my place of peace,
where anxious thoughts can flow,
I begin at speed and all my fears
seem to ebb and flow
They often form an image
It can be sea or moon
Sometimes it’s a story
And suddenly it’s Noon!!
This week shared a lot of things we had been creating over this past week.
Here is the Facebook Live discussion:
Here is a beautiful poem read by one of the Wesley Singers, following inspiration from Zechariah 10:1 (Ask the LORD for rain in the spring, for he makes the storm clouds.
And he will send showers of rain so every field becomes a lush pasture)
We shared the creation of a beautiful sewing bag, which came from the Mandy Shaw website. We also had spent some time designing a small flower intricately on a small piece of cloth; but also a snowman with cross stitch.
One is taking an online art class, and what has been drawn is wonderful:
As an outsider, we can always learn: so what is a Scottish Dumpling? Could it be a bag-pudding? This Clootie seems very similar to a Christmas Cake and a Christmas Pudding, served with custard or cream – where possibly a ‘sixpence’ is hidden within. Do you remember doing that years ago?
Our talents can be seen in many different forms. Here is a water colour resulting from inspiration from Bute.
