Back in August myself and other p/hop volunteer Jenny boarded a train north to Scotland loaded down with knitting samples and patterns to take p/hop to Knit Camp. It was well worth the long journey as…

…we had a lovely, bright stand to show off all the p/hop samples, check out all those socks…

…we met some very famous knitters and told them about p/hop…

… here’s Jared Flood and Norah Gaughan…

…and Debbie Stoller (thanks to her I re-learnt how to knit and crochet)…

… the Provost of Stirling (like the mayor for those of you South of the border) who is a sheep farmer (he farms Shetlands – yes, that’s why I look so excited!)….

…watched the Sheep to Sweater (Back to Back) challenge take place in the courtyard next to our stand…

…met hundreds of lovely knitters from all over the planet (China, Japan, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Europe, Australia as well as the UK to mention a few)…

…and raised £835.58 for MSF which was donated to their Pakistan floods appeal.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came and said hello and made a donation, as always knitters are a fantastic bunch of people, to all the other stallholders who made the event fun, and to the organisers for donating our stand and providing our accommodation and meals which meant more money could go to MSF.

I stayed up in Edinburgh for a few days after Knit Camp and went to a few Edinburgh fringe festival events one of which was MSF supporter Josie Long’s show. She volunteers in the MSF office so I asked if I could take along the collecting buckets to her show. As she’s brilliant and kind she said yes so myself and other MSF volunteer Colin held collection buckets at the end of her show. The audience were very generous, helped along by Josie’s excellent appeal to do good in the world and we raised a further £185.48 taking our Scotland fundraising total to £1021.06. I’m looking on this as p/hop’s first international event (tongue firmly in cheek) but who knows where p/hop will go next?
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OK, our next event isn’t international (depending on your point of view) but it will be fun. We’ll be at the IKnit weekender at the Royal Agricultural Halls in Victoria on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th September. If you’re there do come and say hello to us.