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| Just some of the fish, pompoms and finger knitting that came to #increasetheshoal at Rowntree Park Cafe |
We had a fabulous turnout at our final workshop at Rowntree Park Reading Cafe. I think we may have taken over all the seats indoors and a few outside too!
As well as the fishy makes made at the workshop there were quite a lot of extra fish that swam in that day:
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| Gillian, Sarah & Imogen's fish |
Gillian, her daughter Sarah, and grandaughter Imogen had all made lovely things to add to the Fantasy Fish Yarnstorm. In fact Gillian had also used some of her Mum's yarn and her Grandma's buttons in her makes. That means five generations of her family have had some input into the project - how impressive is that!
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| Mags's makes |
Mags, who has come along to all our workshops and brought extra fish every time, had some new makes for us again. Her starfish set off quite a trend as people started knitting starfish!
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| Sarah's octopus and fish |
Sarah had been knitting an octopus at our last workshop at the Golden Ball and brought it along this time with some other lovely fish. She also finished off the big knitting fish that Joanita from Radio York started when she came to visit me to hear all about the Fantasy Fish Yarnstorm.
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| Joanita & Sarah's big knitting fish is 67cm long |
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| Everyone was very industrious |
Helen and Sam brought a big bag of fish with them before embarking on a joint starfish. And I believe they will be bringing some more fish from the Easingwold Knitting Group too - how fabulous!
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| Helen & Sam's fish |
We had some tiny visitors who weren't too sure whether they wanted to share their mums with the project but they let them in the end - at least for a little while.
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| Knitting, stitching and finger knitting all getting done |
Towards the end of our session Neil and Veronica brought some children along from the York Montessori Nursery and they made these lovely pompoms using a fork each! We're wondering whether they took their new skill back to the Nursery and if it's now covered in fork pompoms!
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| Pompoms made by children from the York Montessori Nursery |
And if that wasn't enough, Pie had brought along a bag of pompoms and Sarah had stitched some more #fantasyfish #fishfromyork at home so all in all we had lots to #increasetheshoal and with more than forty people at our workshop it really was a fab afternoon. Thank you to everyone for all your hard work! Thanks also to Rowntree Park Cafe for having us & for the fab drinks & cakes.
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| Fish knitting patterns |
Our yarnstorm fish will be working hard to raise money for the York Flood Appeal. And there's still time to join in. You can find the fish knitting patterns here and you have until 10 June 2016 to get your finished #fantasyfish to Rowntree Park Cafe if you want them to be included in the yarnstorm. (They don't have to be knitted - they can be stitched, felted or crocheted - to any suitable design)
If you want to find out more about the project's progress you can check out the following blogposts:
The Fantasy Fish Project is sponsored by the Friends of Rowntree Park and has been supported by Hobbycraft, York, Knit & Stitch, York and York School of Sewing.
