fibre east

Hello! Can you believe it’s March already?! There’s so much more light and touches of spring in the days now. Hopefully you’re having a lovely weekend so far and enjoy this short p/hop update. Fundraising Thank you!! You’ve helped P/HOP raise over £64,000 for MSF. What’s going on this month Some of […]

Springing into March

March 5, 2017 in Events / fundraising / knitting / msf / On the road tagged 2017 / festivals / fibre east / woolfest by Heidi

Team p/hop at FE — Another must-see festival on the annual calendar is Fibre East, and p/hop was thrilled to be invited to take part again this summer. Held over two days, the weather played all its cards and we had gorgeous sunshine on the Saturday, and horrendous weather on the Sunday. It was very […]

Summer festival review: Fibre East

October 1, 2015 in On the road tagged Charity knitting / fibre east / knitting / yarn shows by Larissa

Once again I had a fabulous time at Fibre East meeting and chatting with lots of lovely supporters. Thank you so much to Janet Ellison and her army of fabulous volunteers for another great show. We raised a wonderful £376.75. The stall which raised £376.75 in donations It was hot […]

Fibre East – Thank You!

August 8, 2014 in All Blog posts / On the road tagged charity / Doctors Without Borders / Donate / donations / fibre east / fundraising / Kintting / medecins sans frontieres / msf / p-hop / sheep / volunteer / volunteers / yarn by Katestwirl

Lighting the Knit Signal! There are lots of brilliant ways that you can help P/Hop to raise funds for MSF. P/Hop was set up as a community project, so that lots of people could get involved. I donate one day a week plus additional work when we have shows […]

P/Hop needs you!

May 13, 2014 in All Blog posts / On the road tagged charity / crochet / Doctors Without Borders / Donate / donations / Events / fibre east / fundraising / knit / knitting / LYS / medecins sans frontieres / msf / p-hop / Patterns / phop / Unwind Brighton / volunteer / woolfest / yarn shows by Katestwirl

Wishing all our wonderful P/Hoppers a happy, healthy and fulfilling 2014! My fist day back in the MSF office and there’s been loads to do. Two invites to shows were in the inbox with all the form filling that that requires to apply for a place. The first is Woolfest […]

Happy New Year! Happy New Shawl!

January 7, 2014 in All Blog posts / Patterns tagged charity / Doctors Without Borders / Donate / donations / Eyre Shawl / fibre east / fundraising / inspiration / Jane Eyre / knitting / knitting shows / medecins sans frontieres / msf / pattern / ravelry / volunteer / woolfest by Katestwirl

Well, we are back from Fibre East and have recovered from the busy weekend. We had a great time catching up with supporters and meeting new ones. I was there all day on Saturday and Clare all day Sunday and quite a good chunk of Saturday too. I had a […]

Fabulous Fun at Fibre East

August 6, 2013 in All Blog posts / On the road tagged charity / Doctors Without Borders / Donate / fibre east / fundraising / hats / just giving / knitting / medecins sans frontieres / msf / p-hop / pattern / phop / socks / Thank you by Katestwirl

Wow! It’s very busy at P-Hop now that we are well and truly in festival season. Woolfest was a couple of weeks ago and Fibre East is only a couple of weeks away on 27 and 28 July, in Ampthill, Bedford. Jane (ProbablyJane on Ravelry and designer of the ever […]

Yarn Festival Season

July 15, 2013 in knitting / On the road tagged Doctors Without Borders / Donate / donations / fibre east / fundraising / knitting / medecins sans frontieres / mitts / msf / p-hop / phop / ravelry / Thank you / volunteer / woolfest by Katestwirl

The festival season is in full swing so this weekend, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th July the P-Hop roadshow will find itself in (we hope) sunny Bedfordshire for the second Fibre East festival which promises to be even bigger and better than last year. Fibre East is held at Scald […]

Come and meet us at Fibre East!

July 9, 2012 in All Blog posts / On the road tagged fibre east / fundraising / msf / ravelry / volunteer by ProbablyJane

At the end of July p/hop went on the road again. This time not far from London but far enough for it to feel like another country. The day started bright (or should that be bleary) eyed at St Pancras station where I met fellow p/hopper and designer extraordinare ProbablyJane who helped […]

Fabulous Fibre East 2011

August 19, 2011 in All Blog posts / On the road tagged bedford / fibre east / knitters / sheep by Clare

First up is this fantastic event this Thursday in London: What? Cholera treatment exhibition When? Thursday 19th May, 5-9pm Where? West Bank London, 133-137 Westbourne Grove, W11 2RS, LONDON What is it? MSF are taking a unique and interactive exhibition to Glastonbury festival this year. They are previewing it this […]

Dates for your diary 2011

May 16, 2011 in All Blog posts / Events tagged affinity yarns / cholera / Events / fibre east / fibre flurry / haiti / knitnation / msf by Clare