I’m back from the week-long Yorkshire Knitting Tour I hosted last week, and admit that I’m somewhat exhausted, which is to me a small price to pay for all the joy of the week I have just had! Over the next few weeks I plan to share details of the Tour, working through the week from beginning to end, beginning today with the first Sunday, when everyone arrived. On the timetable we called this day ‘A Yorkshire Welcome’. It comprised a tour of Parcevall Hall (our accommodation for the week), a session opening the goodie bags and sharing a few vital pieces of information for the week ahead, followed by dinner, and ending with a bedtime reading of ‘Throp’s Wife’. You can find that story in one of my posts from about this time last year, titled ‘The Thrangness of Keziah Throp’.
The goodie bags were a major success, with several of the participants saying they were the most generous goodie bags they had ever encountered, and that it was obvious they had been put together by knitters who know what knitters love. We are very grateful to Baa Baa Brighouse, Wooltops, Joe’s Toes, Thomas B Ramsden, Baa Ram Ewe, Eden Cottage Yarns, and Rowan Yarns, who all generously contributed to the goodie bags.
I took very few pictures during the week, so will be relying on those my sister took for the ensuing posts about the Tour, but these ones are all my own. I think I perfectly captured the joy of our guests in receiving their gifts:
