Reminder that the club doesn't meet in January, and the next meeting will be Tuesday 7th February 2017.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Saturday, December 10, 2016
December 2016 - Christmas Charity Evening
It was the annual Christmas Charity evening, and our generous club members brought along purchased and hand-made donations to go to the Royal Marsden's charity sale. The hand-made donations included the cutest little baby jumpers and cardigans, as well as a beautiful peacock-feather adult shawl, and covered 2 whole tables.
We all sat down with work it progress knitting and crochet project, and provided assistance to those who were having head-scratching issues with patterns and yarns. Whilst we knit, Liz ran through some of the yarn and craft events to look forward to in the new year. This included:
Unravel at The Maltings in Farnham. Running from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th February. Talks will include Susan Crawford presenting her Vintage Shetland Project, and Amy Twigger Holroyd discussing her PhD research into re-knitting (which I have previously seen at the Knitting History Forum last year, and it is a fascinatingly different approach to looking at a knitting garment).
Make It 2017 at FIVE in Farnborough. Running from Friday 24th to Saturday 25th February. There will be lots of stalls and demonstrations.
Machine Knitting Live Show at Bournemouth. Telephone Machine Knitting Monthly on 01628 783080 for details.
There was a discussion about the possibility of hosting a machine knitting meet-up for the county, that could be a single day, or several days, somewhere central in Hampshire. If you have any suggestions for a venue that has a large room with electricity and tables for people to bring their electronic knitting machines, and has catering and accommodation, please contact one of the committee.
There was an abundance of completed items for the show and tell.
Nina had made a cornflower blue roll-neck jumper using a mix of boucle and acrylic, a pink cardigan, and a white jumper with beading detail.
Carol had made donations for the charity table.
Sandra had knit a bag full of baby hats for use in ventilators (they have a small flap for the monitoring sensor wires to go through), a pink hand-knit cardigan, and a machine-knit multi-colour v-neck cardigan.
Christine had hand-knit a designed-on-the-needles all-in-one maroon garter stitch cardigan in a linen/cotton blend.
Julie was crocheting a blanket that she will be donating to the 60 Million Trebles charity challenge.
Trudy had hand-made a multi-colour infinity cowl.
We then enjoyed mince pies, Christmas biscuits and a cup of tea.
We all sat down with work it progress knitting and crochet project, and provided assistance to those who were having head-scratching issues with patterns and yarns. Whilst we knit, Liz ran through some of the yarn and craft events to look forward to in the new year. This included:
Unravel at The Maltings in Farnham. Running from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th February. Talks will include Susan Crawford presenting her Vintage Shetland Project, and Amy Twigger Holroyd discussing her PhD research into re-knitting (which I have previously seen at the Knitting History Forum last year, and it is a fascinatingly different approach to looking at a knitting garment).
Make It 2017 at FIVE in Farnborough. Running from Friday 24th to Saturday 25th February. There will be lots of stalls and demonstrations.
Machine Knitting Live Show at Bournemouth. Telephone Machine Knitting Monthly on 01628 783080 for details.
There was a discussion about the possibility of hosting a machine knitting meet-up for the county, that could be a single day, or several days, somewhere central in Hampshire. If you have any suggestions for a venue that has a large room with electricity and tables for people to bring their electronic knitting machines, and has catering and accommodation, please contact one of the committee.
There was an abundance of completed items for the show and tell.
Nina had made a cornflower blue roll-neck jumper using a mix of boucle and acrylic, a pink cardigan, and a white jumper with beading detail.
Carol had made donations for the charity table.
Sandra had knit a bag full of baby hats for use in ventilators (they have a small flap for the monitoring sensor wires to go through), a pink hand-knit cardigan, and a machine-knit multi-colour v-neck cardigan.
Christine had hand-knit a designed-on-the-needles all-in-one maroon garter stitch cardigan in a linen/cotton blend.
Julie was crocheting a blanket that she will be donating to the 60 Million Trebles charity challenge.
Trudy had hand-made a multi-colour infinity cowl.
We then enjoyed mince pies, Christmas biscuits and a cup of tea.
Sunday, December 04, 2016
December Charity Evening
This has come round so quickly! In fact the whole year has flown by.
Once again it is our Christmas Charity Evening, (Tuesday 6th December, 8 pm) when we bring along items we have made and things that we have been given but are unable to use (new condition only please). We pack everything up and take it to the Friends of the Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton Branch. They put everything on their sales tables and raise lots of money for the hospital. We understand that the items we donated last year helped them to raise over £16,000 - a fantastic amount.
What else will we be doing on Tuesday evening? We thought that this year we would give you the opportunity to bring along a "work in progress" so that you can have some dedicated time to knit and maybe finish it before the big day. Whilst having a chat, a cup of tea and a mince pie of course! Bring along any recently finished items too to show us - we do like to see them.
A little reminder - we don't meet in January, so if you don't come on Tuesday our next meeting will be in February and we'll post about that nearer the time.
Do come and join us but if you can't make it, then Happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.
Once again it is our Christmas Charity Evening, (Tuesday 6th December, 8 pm) when we bring along items we have made and things that we have been given but are unable to use (new condition only please). We pack everything up and take it to the Friends of the Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton Branch. They put everything on their sales tables and raise lots of money for the hospital. We understand that the items we donated last year helped them to raise over £16,000 - a fantastic amount.
What else will we be doing on Tuesday evening? We thought that this year we would give you the opportunity to bring along a "work in progress" so that you can have some dedicated time to knit and maybe finish it before the big day. Whilst having a chat, a cup of tea and a mince pie of course! Bring along any recently finished items too to show us - we do like to see them.
A little reminder - we don't meet in January, so if you don't come on Tuesday our next meeting will be in February and we'll post about that nearer the time.
Do come and join us but if you can't make it, then Happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.
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