Two weeks today on Saturday 21 May I'll be at Loop from 2 - 4 pm for a knitting book event. There will lots of projects from the book on display for general seeing, touching and examination, and Phoebe will be modelling the slouchy hats. She is very disappointed that she can't wear them until the book is well and truly launched; they have been in a safe place for months but I did let her take one, plus the big woolly jumper and a scarf to Dorset for a weekend with strict instructions not to lose them or drop them in the sea. As she also wore a pair of hand-knitted socks, her friends were beginning to think that maybe I'd knitted Phoebe, too.
There will be books (10% off) and cakes in a shop full of beautiful yarns and knitting inspiration. And a real life me. Do come.
[On Saturday 11 June from 1 - 3 pm my real life model and I will be at Mrs Moon in St Margaret's, near Twickenham. We shall be baking for the event and Phoebe will be doing her best supermodel impression, provided she agrees to get out of bed for a lot, lot less than $10,000. (More likely nothing.)]
So wish I could come along to Loop but busy helping hubbie at a vintage motorbike rally that day! Oh well. Next time.
Posted by: Brocobelle.blogspot.com | May 07, 2011 at 13:05
I feel an outing coming on - I will try to get myself let out that day!
Pomona x
Posted by: Pomona | May 07, 2011 at 14:51
Excellent! See you at Mrs Moon's.
Posted by: Victoria Byrne | May 07, 2011 at 18:47
Will you ever be in 'the North'?
Posted by: Lesley M | May 07, 2011 at 21:57
Oh! I have a ocncert on 21st - but will be at Mrs Moon's; it's nearby and I haven't yet visited, despite noting it from your blog previously. See you there!
Posted by: geraldine | May 07, 2011 at 22:03
I'm a regular knitter at the Mrs. Moon's Thursday group, thanks to your noting the shop when they opened over a year ago. Thank you for that. I'd just moved to London from the US at the time and have made so many friends there. I look forward to the signing there and meeting you!
Posted by: Monica | May 08, 2011 at 13:52
jane, any plans to come states-side
in the nyc area? i live in connecticut. am a loyal follower.
love your books and have given so many tofriends who are devotees now as well!
happy mother's day!
best,
elizabeth duke
Posted by: elizabeth duke | May 08, 2011 at 16:23
Wish I could be there! But I have the book on pre-order with Amazon and can't wait!!
Posted by: Frieda Oxenham | May 08, 2011 at 17:34
Me too! Waiting every day for the amazon order to come in....wish I could come to events but cannot, alas. Love that hat....am now torn between that and the coathangers! And the scarf. Oh dear.
Posted by: adele geras | May 09, 2011 at 15:18
Excuse me, Jane, for hijacking the comments, but I'd like to ask Monica for details re the Thursday knitting group at Mrs Moon's - my husband is away with work for 3 months and it's a good chance to do some serious knitting..... with the help of The Gentle Art of Knitting, of course!!
Posted by: geraldine | May 09, 2011 at 19:12
Are you considering or planning on publishing the projects (not the patterns of course) on Ravelry? I'm assuming there will be an American version of your book like the Gentle Art of Domesticity and in the interim I would love to see the projects and how other knitters interpret them.
Posted by: Meg McG | May 09, 2011 at 20:12