Cornish Organic Wool News
Knitters from Canada and USA come to see Cornish Organic Wool
Our visitors having a go with the 'largest knitting needles in the world'
Extract from 'The Cornishman'
BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY: KNITTING ENTHUSIASTS ON CORNISH TOUR
- 17 May 2007
Cornish Organic Wool launch into retail sector
Matt and Julia Hopson have just launched Cornish Organic Wool into the retail sector at the Craft Hobby and Stitch International at NEC in Birmingham. The response was overwhelming and over the next few months retailers will be stocking our wool, kits and stuffing.
Julia Gains Guinness World Record
Julia gains Guinness World Record for knitting with 'the largest knitting needles in the world'.
As part of National Knitting Week in October 2006 Julia Hopson of Cornish Organic Wool was awarded The Guinness World Record for ‘Knitting with the Largest Knitting Needles’.Julia knitted a tension square of ten stitches and ten rows in stocking stitch using knitting needles that were 6.5cm in diameter and 3.5 meters long. These were ten times the size of a standard 6.5mm and 35cm long knitting needle. The yarn was rope of 12mm in diameter.
National Knitting Week 2006 Tregenna Castle
Knitting Event at Tregenna Castle St Ives Cornwall
As part of National Knitting Week Julia and Matt Hopson of Cornish Organic Wool and Knit Wits in Penzance organised the largest knitting event to be held in the South West, all in aid of the RNLI.