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I want to learn how to crochet/knit!!!!! Any tips on where/how to start? There's noone around me who can show me so it will have to be a case of teaching myself! Thanks becx

If any of you live down south, there is a knitting exhibition every January at Sandown Racecourse. It lasts 3 or 4 days - usually Thurs to Sunday, and there are vast amounts of wool there to suit everyone, from cheap and cheerful to designer yarns. If you are looking for wool you can buy it in binlinerfuls! There are also machines, wool on cone and cross-stitch/tapestry stalls. Very easy to get carried away!! Janice(with a house full of wool)

I was just going to comment on no replies from men, saw one from John and realised he was really Bec! How confusing. My daughter is pestering me for a poncho as she has found an old photo of her brother in a poncho I made taken 30 years ago. I must show my son and his family! Jacky:-)

My grandmothers neighbour taught me to crochet 39 years ago. I still crochet but prefeer to do very fine cotton work, things like doilies, table cloths, trimmings for bedding etc... I haven't done any for a while though. My great aunt taught me to knit but I'm not very good. My tension is all over the place although I can do a presentable moss stitch! I like to sew but have only made some feely bags for school so far this year. Wish I had more time for these things. Viv

Hi Lynn I knit, i'm making a shawl for grandchild due in march,(its a 1940's pattern that was my nans) and the usual hats bootees, mittens and cardigans, it was only last year i was doing it for katie, she's 7 months now. I can't crochet i was never taught, but i am going to see if i can get a pattern for knitting a poncho for Katie, i think there great and i can remember mine as a kid. i taught all 5 of mine to knit even the 3 boys, though they haven't done any for years. lol sandra

Istill knit and crochet, but not as much now the children have got older. We were taught to knit and sew in school when very young, and by age of 10 would have knit a dolls complete outfit, a hat and scarf for ourselves, and mittens with a cable cuff! Crochet I taught myself at about age 13. My Mum and Gran and all my aunts could knit, but I was the only one who could crochet. I was so proud! My Mum died a few months after I married, and I took all her needles, wool and patterns. Some of the patterns are now well over 50 years old. The cardigan and matinee coats for babies are really beutiful, so fine and detailed. I knit all my childrens things from those patterns. The prices are amazing 3d. & 6d. I also still use my Mums row-tally on the end of needles. Lord knows how old that is! I even have the pattern for the christening robe my Nan knit for me, it was knit in silk wool. It was used for all my brothers and sisters (nine of us), and my two boys were also christened in it. It still came up white when I laundered it. Now my niece is looking for a crocheted poncho, and I remember doing loads of them first time they were in fashion!