Help Harry Help Others Fundraising

This is a little different to my other blog posts so far and I hope you will all help me in any way you can.  I met a very dear friend quite a long time ago on twitter called May.  She is the kindest lovely lady and I am so lucky to have her as a friend.  She is a very talented poet and you can find her website here http://www.survivorsburg2006.com/

We have recently got together and she has wrote a poem about knitting as she has picked up her knitting needles again, this gave her inspiration to write a great poem.

We have decided to let my blog readers think up a title for this poem and all you have to do is donate £2 or more if you can afford it to a just giving page I have set up for Help Harry Help Others http://www.justgiving.com/peggyscollection

Clickety Clackety the needles do go,

Row by row,

Watch it grow,

Is it a cardigan, jumper, or blanket? No

Once sewn it’s a little jacket,

Many garment’s you can knit,

When knitting needles part of a crafting kit,

Knit one, purl one, passes slip stitch over,

What’s next? A Gent’s pullover,

Family, Friends and Pets for all you can knit,

Also helps keep your brain fit,

Patterns concentration they do need,

Keeping it right for you to succeed,

Give yourself a challenge,

Knitting needles a pair,

Then knit something for yourself,

Or for others whom you do care.

© May Thomson 2013

All you have to do is leave a comment below and let me know you have donated however big or small and you will be in with a chance of winning the poem with your title on it and it will come as a scroll in a little knitted stocking.

So please try and help even if it is just £2 it all really will make a difference to this charity

Welcome to my world

Welcome to my blog! Some of you may know me from Peggy's Collection and Peggy's Yarns.  These are still very much there but this is an extra blog that will show more of the running of the businesses and a little more about myself and my home life.  This will include knitting, dyeing of yarns, spinning, cooking, beauty and children.  So yes a real mixture! Thanks to @norfolkhorns on twitter for helping me decide on a name for the blog.

Firstly a little about myself.  I am Diana and Peggy was my dear grandmother who taught me to knit. I live in bootiful Norfolk where I grew up with my family.  I am very close to my family who mean a lot to me which I am hoping you will also see from this blog.  I have 3 children and I home educate my youngest little boy who is 7 years old.  I am hoping to include some of that in this blog too.

This is me!

I am very proud of Peggy's Collection and have won many awards and had many photo shoots and fashion shows.

One of my many designs being modelled by my niece Heidi Jackson

I also hand dye yarns which I love as it re kindled my love for knitting and not just knitting for a job. As much as that sounds like an ideal job to many knitters it can also be very stressful and demanding.  I love the flexibility I have with my work.

Sparkly yarn I dyed for Peggy's Yarns 

A special design I am making 

I have worked with many charities and that is a very positive way to use my skills too and I am also very happy to help as much as I can.  I am very fortunate to do a job that I love.

Well I hope you have all had a little insight to the life of Diana and I will be updating this blog a lot with day to day things I do that I think will interest you all.