You might have heard by now that Fifteen, the Jamie Oliver initiated restaurant that trains young apprentice chefs, is launching a limited edition knitting kit in time for Christmas, the yarn coming from the wool of the Elwy Valley lamb used in the restaurant.

Well, Emma and I got exclusively invited up for the official launch of the kit at Fifteen's flagship restaurant on Wednesday, for an evening of fun, food and knitting, held in conjunction with Stitch and Bitch London.

The place was kitted (knitted?) out beautifully with each place set with a small skein of the wool, a set of lovely Subabul wooden knitting needles sourced and provided by The Little Knitting Company (Ruth gave us a pair to take away and they're lovely, as is her gorgeous tiny baby Will, who she brought with her) and some starter patterns.



Can you guess where Emma and I sat?

There was some great food; fennel cooked in chilli, baked figs with blue cheese, crusty salt and rosemary bread and the most delicious (and rich!) chocolate brownies. We may have gone up for seconds...

Then followed an evening of getting to know other knitters, trying out the yarn, chatting about how the idea of the kit came about and occasionally filling our wine glasses.



Say cheeeeeeese

We ended up with the lovely and inspiring Lauren, one of the original Stitchettes, on our table who suggested we all knitted a square and put it together to create a piece of knit grafitti and tag Fifteen, as you can see here!



Lauren in action. I wonder how long it will stay up here?

Sigh, the things we do in the name of work, I tell you it's a tough life...



Katy