This Just In...

For everyone around Cambridge who isn't going to the Knitting and Stitching Show in
London (which probably includes my broke ass), I just got some exciting  news about
a knitting gathering here tomorrow. All the details are below, I might make an
appearance, too. The venue is between Mill Lane and Peterhouse college on
Trumpington Street... basically if you know where the Fitzwilliam Museaum is, go
there, then head back toward the market square, and bingo, you have knit. Here's a
map.


NATIONAL KNITTING WEEK
10/16TH OCTOBER

Press Release

No embargo


Cambridge Knit Café is marking National Knitting Week with a special Open Day.

Visitors will be welcome at the Knit Café, in Emmanuel United Reformed Church,
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, on Thursday 13th October between 2pm and 4pm.

They will  be able to meet the regular knitters and look at some of the range
of goods made to go to a variety of charities. These include children and young
people in Kosovo, children of asylum seekers, who have often left all their
toys behind when they fled with their parents, and children in hospital in
poorer countries.

Knitters will be on hand with tea, coffee and cakes, as well as knitting
needles and yarn, to introduce anyone who wants to come along to the group.

The group also welcomes donations of wool and other yarn, in big and small
amounts.

"The café has really taken off since it started again in September" says the
Community Development Worker, Ms Jan Nicholls "New people of all ages have
joined the group - many learning to knit for the first time. There is always a
lot of laughter when the group is meeting."

The café takes place in the Fare Shares Café at the church, which is open every
day from 10.30am to 3pm and serving lunches form 12 to 2pm

For further information contact Jan Nicholls on Cambridge 351174

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