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Crochet evening, beginners – experts.
Learn to crochet or learn a new stitch if you are a beginner or a novice.
For those who are more advanced, learn a new technique or experiment with an interesting edging on a piece of knitting.
If you can bring DK yarn and a suitable hook or an old tension square please do but materials will be supplied.
Early start – 7:30
Anu will then be talking about making things with rectangles and stripes. Bring any sample and ideas that you have as well.
March 2015
Club evening with Raffle and making a Surprise Jacket – see Documents to Print for details.
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.
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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 .
Competition Entries
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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 | 12th only | Nottingham Just Knitting Show. Tickets from MKM |
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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14th Jan: Club Evening with Raffle
1. April’s demonstration, inspiration for our competition.
2. Surprise activity.
10th December 2014: Christmas Party – all to bring a dish
Club Evening
1. Bring knitted items to display for donation to charity.
2. Topic “Knitting for the Home” , bring ideas, samples etc.
3. Possibly 4 machines working: different techniques
8th Oct: Club Evening.
1. Reminder that in November we are donating items to charity.
2. Age UK have teamed up with Innocent Smoothies to raise money for Charity, patterns available for knitting hats for bottles and decorating them.
Machines available.