Month: April 2022

The theme this month was Chunky Knitting machines.  Both the club machine Brother chunky and the Chair’s Zippy 90  a plastic bed machine from the 1980’s were brought along to demonstrate some techniques.

Neither of these chunky’s had any automatic patterning so hand tooling was used to show their capabilities.   Many members already have chunky machines – some with punch card patterning, the old Knitmaster 155 has a 12 stitch repeat whilst a Brother has a 24 stitch repeat.  We also looked at various patterns using chunky’s and discussed yarn choices.

The meeting started with the AGM

There were reports from various members of the committee: the Chair, the Secretary, the Treasurer and the Webmaster.  Then the club members re-elected most committee members although Margaret our Vice Chair stood down this year.  

After that we had our usual refreshments and then there was a talk and demo by Clare.

A jolly meeting when everyone was glad to be together after missing January.  Plenty of show and tell items .

This months theme was machine knitted furnishing fabrics.

This included various cushions and some chair set covers done in a weaving pattern which had proved very hardwearing.