Early March Meeting

Not long now till our March meeting.  I do hope you can come along on Tuesday 3rd March, 8 pm prompt.

We have Mike coming along to talk about taking photographs of our knitting.  We've checked that Mike's laptop will work with the school equipment, and how to connect everything up so there will be a visual presentation to give us some pointers.  If you can please bring a camera with you so you can have a go too - nothing like trying for yourself to get the hang of things!  The camera doesn't have to be anything special, just the one you take your holiday snaps on.

I find it useful to take a quick picture of the things I've finished knitting or crocheting so that I have a record of what I've made.  As most of my efforts are given away it's easy to forget what yarn/colour/pattern I used, but by taking a photo I have a visual record for later.

There will be time for show and tell and you could take photographs of them to start your visual record.

I look forward to seeing you.

February 2020 - Knit and natter

News and updates

Due to five Tuesdays in March and school holidays, there are two meetings in March, and no meeting in April. The dates for the next few meetings are: 3rd March, 31st March, 5th May. All the meeting dates are also listed on the left. 

We have a speaker for the next meeting on the 3rd March. Mike Carrington is going to talk to us about how to photograph textiles, knit wear and crochet.

Black Sheep Yarns are going to be at Create-It at Farnborough 21-22 Feb.  Exhibitors list is now up  https://www.createitevents.com/ and there may be others that would be of interest to knitters/crocheters too.

Unravel is the same weekend, but also on the Sunday (21-22-23 Feb). The website is   http://craft.farnhammaltings.com/portfolio/unravel-festival-knitting/  Quite expensive at £10 for each day (plus £1 booking fee if you book on-line).

If you are interested in attending the Knitting and Crochet Guild convention this year, then return the booking form as soon as possible, as there are limited spaces.

The Knitting and Crochet Guild's Heritage Lottery funded project 'The collection in 100 objects' has been completed, and the one hundred objects are being released one each day from the 22nd January 2020 on all the Guild's social media channels, and via the news page of the Guild website: https://kcguild.org.uk/news/category/100-objects

Show and tell

Rene machine knit a purple hat on a 5mm Singer double-bed in English Rib (Half Fisherman Rib).

Carol had been very busy with a multi-colour child's jacket and a white and blue child's cardigan.

Carol also finished a machine knit lilac jumper with a bit of sparkle.

Liz hand knit a blue sleeveless jacket built from squares.

Sally machine knit a terracotta jacket/cardigan in one-way tuck-stitch double-bed rib (Nina Miklin pattern K12).

February meeting coming up

Is it too late to wish you all a Happy New Year??

Not sure where the time has gone, but it's February already!  So our first meeting of 2020 is on Tuesday, 4th February, 8pm at Court Moor School.

It will be a knit and natter, so bring along some work in progress, and anything you've finished recently.  If you've received anything knitting related that others might like to see you could bring them along too.  I'm sure we won't be stuck for things to talk about!

Looking forward to catching up with you all.