he team loved reading about friends Morgan and Cat (Page 10) and how they turned a COVID lockdown hobby into a business. The duo managed to teach themselves knitting via YouTube team learned the skill years ago but are no longer knitters. But after reading our story, some of us are inspired to take it up again. Amber was 19 when her gran taught her. ‘It was loads of fun and I remember making a colourful scarf that was full of holes,’ she laughed. ‘Gran gave up on me at that stage. But she’d be so chuffed if I asked her for more lessons!’ Jude’s former mother-in-law, Helena, was a mad knitter who made lots of jumpers for Jude’s boys, Myles and Billy. ‘Unfortunately, Helena didn’t always tie off the wool securely, so the knitting eventually unravelled,’ said Jude. ‘But the boys grew so quickly it didn’t really matter.’ Jude is the only one of us who is actually a knitter. But only of tea-cosies. ‘I try to knit bigger things but I get bored, and hand them over to my mum Joan to finish,’ she said. Mari thought she’d become a knitter when, many years ago, she emigrated to Australia from Scotland with her family. ‘I’d never flown more than a few hours and the flight to Sydney seemed interminable, so I decided I’d spend the time knitting,’ she said. ‘Of course, I didn’t finish it and the jumper has sat at the back of a cupboard ever since!’
