Can't believe we only had 2 participants for this wonderful course of Claire's. And I thought that most knitters were interested in "Saving the planet"!

The morning started when Claire gave us ideas of what to do with a felted sweater. She'd made everything from teddy bears to a tea cosy, a hot water bottle, a bag and a flower. All very beautiful items.

Next she showed us the best way of pulling back an old sweater, giving us lots of information about the best sweaters to buy from charityy shops.

After lunch she revealed the secretes of Magic Ball knitting. It was great fun playing with colours and textures and brilliant to get lots of new ideas for not wasting a centimetre of yarn.

I'm now falling asleep as I woke up at 4.46am this morning to go off to a Dog Agility Show at Wadebridge. I'd not planned to get up until 5.30am but there seemed no point in going back to sleep for 30min. I won a 12th rosette with Flynn so I was quite happy despite making a mess of my other round. I travelled with my daughter Katie and 5 of our dogs. Katie hasn't been training any of the dogs for ages because she's been doing a Master's course in Zoo Conservation Biology, so she decided to take 4 of them round the Grade 1 Jumping and Elementary courses. We were really pleased that all the dogs got Clear round rosettes apart from her most experienced Lab who was very unlucky