Lyn Leventhall – Page 11 – Bookham Machine Knitting Club

Suprise Jacket for March 2015 Meeting

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The details of this jacket are: http://www.junebugsplace.com/surprise.htm

There is also a YouTube video by Roberta Rose Kelley here

February 2015 Meeting

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New Beginnings – decorative alternatives to ribbed bands

This month we had a theme – new beginnings – were we looked at a variety of edges that can be used instead of or as well as ribbing.

April, Anu and Frances both demonstrated some unusual edges. It can be a real boon to have some easy edges that can be made on the main bed if you do not use or have not got a ribber for your machine. Many current garments are tunic style and do not need a rib at the main hem so these can easily make the garment more interesting and unique without using the standard hem.

Braids — Range of trims that can be used instead of a rib or hem at the start of a garment, round sleeves, necklines or even to replace button bands.

Our three demonstrators creating examples of various trims

Annual Club Competition, Stars and Cushions

In addition to the theme, February is the club’s competition night. This year, there were two themes – the first was to make a cushion cover whilst the second was to create an item with a star theme, this could be a garment or any other item.

There are two classes: novice for anyone who has never won a competition before and standard for everyone who has won in the past or works to a high standard.

Our worthy winners were:

Beryl – who won the novice cushion cover category for a cream cushion with tassels on the corners .

There was a tie between Anu and Frances for the standard in the cushion cover category. Frances creater a small heart shape cushion whilst Anu’s used the knitweave technique to make a large multicoloured cushion.

Jenny K. won the standard class for the Star category for her jumper.

There were no entries for the Star category novice class.

Many congratulations to all the winners and as well as all those who entered, there were more entries this year than in the past and everything was of a high standard.

Competition Entries

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Exhibitions and Shows in Spring 2015

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Month	Days	Details
January	22 Jan -24 Jan	The Creative Crafts Show, Sandown Park Exhibition Centre. Esher, Surrey
Feb	20 Feb -22 Feb	Unravel, Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey
Feb-March	27 Feb-1 March	Knit & Stitch it 2015, Farnborough
March	5 March-8 March	Spring Knitting & Stitching Show, Olympia London
March	7 March	Machine Knitting Live, Bournemouth Tickets fromMKM
January	18 only	Waltham Abbey Wool Show 10am to 4pm
April	12^th only	Nottingham Just Knitting Show. Tickets from MKM

January 2015 Meeting

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This month, we had an inspiring talk from our chairman April, who took us through the process of creating a fairisle pattern containing stars. She described the process of creating the designs and where her inspiration came from.

It is hoped that this would help us to come up with some interesting items for next month’s competition which has two categories 1) An item with stars and 2) cushion covers.

The items April had made one cover to combined these two and two others that she were equally unusual.

After refreshments, we had a Speed Chat session where everyone was encouraged to chat to a member of the committee about the running of the club. It went really well and quite a few ideas were generated about the direction the club should take next. Members were asked about their favourite meetings and the type of meetings they prefer amongst other things.

Plated Rib Coaster Pattern to print

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Margaret will be doing a demo and we can all try it out.

All members coming along to the November meeting can print out one of the patterns before they come.

Click on this pattern name to download the Plated Ribbed Coaster pattern (in Word) for a the November meeting.

October 2014 Meeting

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Smoothie hats

This month Margaret brought in patterns and samples so we could make little hats for Innocent Smoothies. Each smoothie sold with a hat makes money for the charity Age UK.

There were a range of techniques – hand and machine knitting plus crochet. Any unfinished hats could be finished later and sent in directly.

Here is what was achieved. The duck was one Margaret brought in to show us.

Next time we will be looking at “Knitting for the Home”, so various members brought in samples and ideas of items to make.

In addition, we are hoping to have a fundraising stall at an event in Bookham before Christmas. Small items for sale will be collected next month and various members brought in items they were making for that.

Here is another collection – this time by Sarah who made these wonderful creations with her mumfter the class:

Sarah's Smoothie hats — Sarah’s Smoothie hats

Finally here are the two I made:

Lyn's Smoothie hats — Lyn’s Smoothie hats

September 2014 Meeting

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Machine Knitter’s Question Time

This meeting was a new format, members were asked to submit questions anonymously over the past few months. These were then answered by other members of the group. It generated plenty of discussion and we had a machine available for demonstrations. After the questions, our chairman, April, showed people how to use a garter bar which was also a useful reminder too all.

There was the usual show and tell where members brought in items they had recently made.

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Author: Lyn Leventhall