A weeks worth of planning on the Ravelry board and we sorted out a meeting place and somewhere to get breakfast – building up some energy for the long day ahead… In the end, there were 14 of us for brunch, I don’t remember the last time I had a greasy spoon breakfast and it was amazing!

Once inside, my first port of call was the Socktopus Stand – which was three deep with people eagerly wanting to get their hands on some Malabrigo sock yarn, unfortunately I didn’t get there in time to purchase any of the yarn, but I did sign up to the Sock Club (there goes the stash busting for next year).

There was so much to see and buy, I am still not sure I made it around all the stands. Undoubtedly the most amazing thing were the world’s largest needles, for a donation (to Breast Cancer Research) you could have ago at knitting with four metre long needles. I managed to complete two stitches and I have to say it was quite an arm workout!

Of course the reason I was there…

 Another task was to try to take a photo of you knitting, next to a policemen, Pearly Knit or Queen, Street Performer of a Famous Person… whilst we enjoyed a cheeky half pint in the Royal Festival Hall, some fellow treasure hunters stopped for a chat, and they recognised Miss Flip Knit’s voices from their podcasts, so of course we decided they were our stars!  

 The whole way around the course we carried out lovely yellow balloon (you got an extra 2 points for returning your balloon) and knitted a skinny scarf… upon returning to the store our balloon was sabotaged (we will get our revenue next year!) However our scarf was the second longest and overall we won (I think I am still in shock about this).

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