Purl in the Field – Summer Edition
Our eighth edition of Purl in the Field from the Strathclyde #Methodist Circuit. Here we engage with those who may be housebound but in the medium of knitting, crochet and...
We are all on a journey
It's been a week of travelling for us. If it's Tuesday it must be Lancaster; Friday, Hi Walsall; oh Monday, hello Gloucester; and finally Saturday: wahoo Glasgow! We were on...
Purl in the Field June 2022
The seventh edition of the bi-monthly Purl in the Field magazine is available here. Click on the magazine below to read it on Issuu. Enjoy. https://issuu.com/deaconbobstoner/docs/knit_knatter_newsletter_june_22
The next Chapter
Have we ever considered what happens when we finish perhaps a piece of craft work, some knitting or sewing, or we come to the end of one job, or at...
Summer Creation
Not Van Gogh but by Helen of Partick As Summer approaches - truly it really is! - we might look around at what people are creating to give us joy....
Coral
It was great to chat with some of you this morning. We began by looking at a wooden ornament which had been painted for a garden and discussed whether it...
Being Enough
Barbara Brown Taylor An array of quilted embroidery Often we can feel that we are not enough. Paul writes in one of his letters to the Corinthians "We are hard...
Spring a Connection
Hedgehog, Chicks and a Rabbit It must be Spring, now that the chicks are hatching, or rather unstitching from the needles. It's a time of new birth, possibly of new...
Our hearts grieve
We met again as a group of dispersed members of the Strathclyde Methodist Church, to be as one, to reflect on the news coming from Ukraine. For those families in...
Knit & Knatter Newsletter #5
Every two months we stitch together some thoughts, interwoven with our passions, to create a newsletter entitled Purl in the Field. That title comes from the knitting together of two...
The Wonder in Giving and Receiving
Do we love receiving gifts on our birthday or at Christmas? It's lovely to receive something that someone else has chosen just for us. So what drives us to give...
Where do we put the egg?
It's that time again when we brush away the cobwebs collected upon the Christmas Tree and have put it away for another year. We can feel the warmth of Spring...
Purling into 2022
That's trying to convey us seamlessly moving into another year - but I must admit it does look a lot like hurling, throwing us into what might be 2020 too....
being real is an amazing evangelism
It has been wonderful as we have created so many angels for those who might struggle with celebrations such as Christmas following the death of a loved one. It has...
Purl in the Field December 2021
Here is the latest Strathclyde Methodist Circuit's Knit & Knatter newsletter for December 2021, just in time for Christmas! https://issuu.com/deaconbobstoner/docs/knit_knatter_newsletter3
Engaging with Glass
OK I may know how to check the fuse box under the stairs but how do we fuse bits of glass together? Additionally, how do we do this creatively, with...
Jesus Saves, We spend
Storm Arwen has been and left a frosty covering everywhere. I wonder what might have happened to those glass slippers that Cinderella wore? I doubt there was much of a...
A New World dawns?
Protests up and off to the right Local Methodist Protesters including the Vice President of the Methodist Conference, a District Chair and our own Superintendent Revd Andrew Baker The Circuit...
Too much inconvenience!
No this isn't another yarn or an attempt to needle you into contemplating something different. We have been talking about today's "Question of the Fortnight" and whether it is all...
Angelic Purls
Our focus to offer Angels at a service near to Christmas to those who have struggled with the loss of a loved one during the Pandemic continues. Angels are now...
Purl in the Field – October 2021
Please find our latest physical newsletter sent out by post to those without computer access, and also released here online so that all are included. As Halloween and Christmas beckons...
Purling to the future
We have achieved much in our 8-9 months of Knit & Knatter. We have sought to bring people together from across Strathclyde and even the far flung corners of Yorkshire!...
I could have licked the plate!
A few of us have been able to celebrate with either a birthday, wedding or an anniversary recently. It's often strange as the quality of the food increases, the portions...
Out of Kilter
It's an interesting phrase as 'Out of Kilter' means a variant of an older English dialect word 'kelter', which means 'good health; good condition'. Is that how we might feel...
Holidays – when is the next one?
It was lovely to welcome back so many people to the Knit & Knatter meeting this morning. Often the focus can be upon the knitting or sewing but the nattering...
Anyone for sausage?
The Strathclyde Knit & Knatter group have met again - and what might they talk about? Complicated programming? In this past few weeks of heat gardening has been the most...
Purl in the Field – August Newsletter
For those whom don't normally have access to social media we produce a regular physical newsletter. Here is August's edition which will be sent out later this week. Please share...
What do we need this Summer?
The Knit & Knatter group met again this morning: to share what they have been doing and chatting about all and sundry. Some had been on their holidays, including the...
It’s all in the rhythm of the needles
There have been a few blogs and webpages about knitting in Shetlands - here's one about Joanna Hunter-Coe who has a shop on Lerwick's High Street - so to meet...
A story in a quilt
We were so pleased to have Deacon Sue Culver with us this morning. She explained how her quilt, which was based upon people's stories from the pandemic. The quilt that...
Life is like a butterfly
Do you remember the programme Butterflies, the one on BBC, where Wendy Craig played a wife who 'struggled' to cook anything edible and drove a Mini with a Union Jack...
Childhood Hobbies
Mandy says that as a child she never mastered knitting or even had any interest in it. Now, it is very different. Do we have childhood hobbies that remain with...
Untangling a knot
This Pandemic lockdown has been for many a bit like a knot - restricting our movement. Today we find that those restrictions may have been lessened. Here in Glasgow, there's...
Knit & Knatter Worship
Here we link the hobbies of knitting, drawing, painting, cross-stitch, flower arranging, cooking and sewing plus knattering in our worship of our loving God. You can see what we weave...
Bank Holidays, Rain and Hope!
I'm sure that statistically the chance of rain falling on a Bank Holiday isn't any higher than any other day - it just feels like it sometimes. We may not...
So this is Christmas
Incredible cross stitch by Ruth We have been meeting online now since February this year, so we aren't at Christmas quite yet; nevertheless, that's some time knitting and nattering together....
Knit-a-Blob
How are you feeling? Sometimes we use our hobbies to take ourselves away from the thick of it - it's a distraction. We can lose ourselves for a wee while...
New Start
Have you eaten all that chocolate? Really? So what of that new start we spoke of? Well it can start here, as we untangle the web that may have, possibly,...
What size needles does God use?
God is a knitter, too, just like my grandma.Being Unravelled by Kari Martin, a superb and challenging blog post - really worth a read This week one of us said...
Jour-knitting?
Let me explain... Many might knit or sew or draw whilst they watch TV or have a conversation or watch the world go by. Personally I think it's astonishing that...
We are Allsorts really
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...
Knattering whilst Knitting
We are in the third week of Lent - have you 'relented' and eaten the chocolate you said you wouldn't eat? I have temporarily given up supporting my favourite football...
Knit & Knatter – more of the latter!
We shared a lot of what we are still doing each and every week. It's amazing what talents are possibly hidden but ever so present. https://youtu.be/PxwSdKegWOk We share this on...
Show the Love
Yes, I know Valentine's is over for another year... this is different. Really. COP26 is coming to Glasgow in November, so Climate could be a theme for this year. It...
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[Spoiler Alert] Easter
I know it's the first day of Lent...(by the way here's our Ashing Service that personal to you) but thinking of Easter...what about an Easter wreath? Here's one which has...
Have you ever washed a jumper too hot?
At our third session we had ten folk, from Strathclyde and South Yorkshire, who wanted to chat, share and link together with a common theme of knitting and sewing. It...
The Banner over me is love
On Valentine's Day we may seek to express that sign of love to another. Today that can be difficult, with lock down restrictions, we may not even be permitted to...
Mug Hugs
These could be great to send to someone we can't get to see currently. It might remind them that they are valued. And that could be vital these days, don't...
Crafting websites
In our discussions today we were reflecting upon the different things we could make. It's great that in the myriad of conversations we may find new ideas which might spark...
Making a Teddy Bear all in one go!
Wow, here's a pattern for a Teddy Bear where you complete it in one go! http://www.barddance.org/knittering/bluesbighugbear.htm. Here we can knit a bear from their feet up to their head and...
Welcome to the Knit & Knatter posts
These are posts also found on our Facebook group for those whom attend our weekly Knit & Knatter online group. The concept is to promote fellowship, especially in this pandemic,...
Why do we do this?
Why should a church group start an online Knit & Knatter group? It's a way of sharing our experiences from within this #Covid Pandemic. What experiences? well those we have...