Hello and a Happy New Year! I hope that 2012 will be a fantastic one all round.<\/p>\n
At this time of year as the outside is relentlessly dark (though luckily less cold than last year, and at least the rain has stopped) one’s thoughts often turn to summer holidays. This year I am looking forward to being sidekick and knitting helper to Fiona Morris<\/a> on her French Treats Holiday<\/a> at Le Vieux Monast\u00e8re, near to La Rochelle in France, from the 10th to the 17th of June 2012.<\/p>\n From the blurb on Le Vieux Monast\u00e8re website:<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2012 we will be looking at a variety of Patchwork\/modular knitting techniques, Bavarian twisted stitch patterns, textured stitches and different edgings\u201d says Fiona. \u201cFor those of you who prefer to make projects rather than just knit samples, the stitch patterns will include a beret pattern and a fingerless mittens pattern and the Patchwork knitting can be made into a cushion cover or bag.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There is detailed information available on what we will be doing each day available in the pdf infopack available on Le Vieux Monast\u00e8re website. A good balance I think of learning, fun excursions, and time spent knitting and chatting with like-minded new friends.<\/p>\n Fiona has booked our plane tickets and I am already thinking about how much knitting I can get into 20kg of luggage allowance \ud83d\ude42 I think my clothes will have to be very light \ud83d\ude42 Places are booking up fast but I think there are still some left at the moment. I am really looking forward to it, I think it is going to be a lot of fun, and it would be lovely to see some of you there if you fancy a knitting holiday this year.<\/p>\n Bonnes vacances! (my French is very rusty – and not that good in the first place – so please feel free to correct me if I have wonky spelling and \/ or conjugations \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello and a Happy New Year! I hope that 2012 will be a fantastic one all round. At this time of year as the outside is relentlessly dark (though luckily less cold than last year, and at least the rain has stopped) one’s thoughts often turn to summer holidays. This year I am looking forward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french-treats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-v6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}