Advent Calendar in the making
Originally uploaded by Geraldine Curtis.

Wednesday
It's reassuring when you know things are meant to be. I've been agonising all week about my attempt at being in two places at once on Friday. I'm desperate to go to Bradford for a meal out but at the same time, I didn't want to cancel my class as it's an important routine for those with learning difficulties who attend. I thought that I'd have time to start the class off and then leave , but even Google maps said I'd be pushing it to arrive in time! It turns out there's a train that leaves Derby at 9.42am and arrives 11.42am, which leaves me just enough time to get there. This does mean taking all the things for my class to one of the helpers, but she just happens to be on a training course at the same place as me tomorrow, coincidence or what?
Lots of activity on the website today. The Speed Challenges in knitting and crocheting will take place in New York next summer and emails have been batting to and fro all day trying to agree on size of needles/hooks and type of yarn. Seems bizarre that Americans do not have an equivalent yarn to our 'age old' double knitting. (OK , you have to be a knitter to understand this one) Enough said. ..Also today we've have contact from a Craft Trade magazine wanting to use our main story - trying to find someone to knit Noel Edmonds a jumper - there's going to be a special show to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Swap Shop. So if you know of anyone who could design and knit a jumper in less than a month, deadline 8th December...