Yesterday was quite an interesting one to say the least!ITV West country emailed me last week to ask if they could film a knit club for a programme to be shown on ITV this Friday 15 August at 6.00pm

Well I thought it might be fun so of course I said yes! I was flattered that they had picked Spin A Yarn to film. It turned into a marathon 4 hour session from which they will pick about 1 or 2 minutes apparently.

Yesterday morning wasn't officially a knit club day but everyone was eager to come along so before I knew it there were 10 ladies sitting around the table with their various projects.

Clare Manning the presenter arrived and joined the camera man and the soundman as well as Ali & I.

As you all know I have a very small shop!

Claire Crompton came along to teach Claire, Anneken was knitting her exquisite socks with her Mum and daughter, also there were Christine, Mary, Sue, Jackie, Becky.

At least 10 customers arrived along with a delivery of 2 huge bags of yarn from Sirdar.

My shop was by now looking exceedingly small!!

My worst moment was when the sound man decided to fix a mike so that I could be interviewed.  As anyone of you probably knows I can chat happily to anyone all day in the shop, however.... when i was provided with a mike and asked questions I just went bright red and couldn't think what on earth I was saying. I'm dreading watching the show on Friday! 

Claire & Anneken did very well however and Claire Manning seemed to be genuinely enjoying learning to knit. In fact she was doing very well by the end of the session.

Do watch but please excuse whatever I'm saying as I really can't remember! 

I closed the shop the other week for the first time since I opened it on 4 July and had a wonderful week in Crete. It was brilliant to see the sun even if it was only for 1 week.

I, even managed to persuade my husband to take a trip out to the hills because I saw some interesting photos of ladies spinning and weaving. We found ourselves in the town of Annoya (probably Spelt wrong!) and wandered around looking for ladies spinning. Eventually I found 2 old ladies with beautifully woven rugs and tried  by sign language to ask whether they spun the yarn and what type of loom they used to weave the rugs with.

Eventually I showed them my knitting that I had in the car. (I'm still knitting Lima using Mirasol Sulka). They thought the yarn was very beautiful, then showed me the natural brown yarn ( I think goat) that they were using. I gave them a small amount of money and the old ladies got quite agitated and insisted that I go with them to see their loom which is featured in the photos and then kindly gave me another large skein of brown coloured goat! What I'm going to do with it I don't know! But as usual I have come back from holiday with new yarn!

Just realised that I haven't mentioned the terrible fire in Bovey Tracey. The Old Thatched Inn across the road from Spin A Yarn burned down a month ago. I was fortunate because my door is supersealed against flooding so there wasn't a hint of smoke inside the shop.

The poor young family that lived in the pub though lost everything, their home and business.

Now we're all waiting to find out if the beautiful old building will be rebuilt.