first date

hi!!

well, as you can see this is the first official post from the purlettes, so in the interest of breaking the ice, i will let you into a little secret, i don't really know what to write about!!(and i know my grammar is probably terrible mum, sorry)so if its all abit gobbledygook, just go with it. embrace it.love it. and please pretend it was interesting to read!!

so I'll let you know a little bit more about 'the purlettes'. we started out as a little knitting group after my mum (that's Jill) made my baby the most gorgeous baby blanket, known by its official title as the first 'nana blanket' ever. we decided to start knitting some stuff, mostly blankets, at requests from others and its snowballed from there to become a sort of knitting/making/gossiping get together. I cant honestly say hand on heart that we do a lot of knitting most weeks, but we do some, and we get things done!!!
in regards to other things we make, well, Sharon makes amazing jewellery and does crocheting rather than knitting, but does brilliant things, like hats and all kinds of other delicious things.
For Christmas this year, me and mummy dearest decided to make most of our gifts from things we could do ourselves and stuff we had grown ourselves, like jam and pickles.
we actually only ended up only doing about half our presents like this, but they were brilliant!!we made jams, chutney, onion marmalade, chilli jam, body scrubs, moisturiser(which i have on good authority is very very nice!), lip balms...the list goes on.
and it was great, very fulfilling and nice to see people amazed that we actually did it!!!i was very proud of us, and hope if you were the lucky recipient of said gifts, you were happy to!!!

so, 'whats next?!' i hear you cry. besides world domination, we're hoping to expand on our little enterprise and this is what this lovely little diary of our lives is for. to let you know we are here, and coming to a kitchen cupboard/baby cot near you soon.

til next time...

kate xx