OMG! We made it to
Ireland! IRELAND! I have been stuffed in Cathy’s bag for almost three months
and I finally saw the light of day! (Well, it was night when we got to the
knitting group meeting—but whatever, I was out of that bag!)
We arrived in
Ireland on a cold December 11. Immigration gave Cathy a bit of a hard time
because she did not have a date when she planned to leave the country. He was
worried she would try to work in Ireland. Cathy?? Work?? You got to be kidding.
But, in the end, the officer stamped her passport and we got in.
On her second
night in Dublin, Cathy found this incredible group of ladies that meet at
Winnie’s Craft Café. Wow—another café and knit shop in one place—perfect! And
so magical right before Christmas. The ladies were very welcoming and I got
passed all around. Marina, the owner, has a great stock of so many kinds of
yarn and she started off contributing to me with a bright pink mohair boucle
from Cushendale Wollen Mills. It is spun in Kilkenny Ireland by a 200 -year-old family
business. As Marina says, “It doesn’t lend itself to fancy stitches!” But it is
fancy enough just by itself.
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| Marina adding sweet pink boucle from Cushendale Woollen Mills |
Then Clare added a
knit 2, purl 2 checkerboard section, and Jackie knitted some lace stitches with
a blue handspun yarn. Finally Geraldine used a nice hand-dyed yellow sock yarn
from Green Elephant Yarns. I’m back in business, baby! It was so fun
meeting these ladies and Cathy says we may rejoin them if we come back through
Dublin on one of their Knitnights.  |
| Winnie's Craft Cafe KnitNight group...Tea, cakes, cookies, and Christmas chocolates and knitting...what more could you want? |
