This month was a club evening and we had a lace evening along with our charity table – lots of lovely offerings, children’s wear, knitted toys and much much more – see photos.
Notices: There are three events at the start of next year that are in the South East of England,
- Sandown Park (Esher, Surrey) at the racecourse 17-th – 19th January view website http://www.stitchandcreativecrafts.co.uk/exhibit_stitch.asp
- Unravel (Farnham, Surrey) Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th February 2013 at the Maltings View website
- Brighton (East Sussex) Creative Stitches show at the Brighton Centre, 2-3 Feb 2013 view website
Also Morley College has a craft day on Sunday 2nd December, see side panel.
Lynn discussed the programme for 2013/14 asking for ideas and suggestions as many of the stalwart speakers no longer wished to travel long distances or come along during the evening. Also many of the alternatives who were approached were much too expensive for our budget.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to get speakers.
Brenda and Margaret demonstrated lace techniques to the group.
Brenda, who uses a Knitmaster machine showed us the combined lace carrioage for that machine, sho had a gorgeous shawl she had made for her new grandchild. Also a pretty light weight stole in blue yarn.
The knitmaster lace carriage both transfers and knits so you can create a lace garment much more quickly. Also a single row of stocking stitch is possible between row.
Margaret demonstrated the Brother lace carriage which can create more elaborate patterns but is more time consuming to use as the lace carriage on this machine only transfers the stitches and the knit carriage is required to complete each operation. On the Brother, the knit carraiage needs to make two passes between rows. Margaret also brough along a range of samples she had made, these included some fine lace (only an option on the Brother), a lace motif and several very elaborate fashion lace patterns where the stitches were moved in a fully fashioned manner over several row giving a very pleasing effect.
After coffee we had some more demonstrations and a chance to try some of the techniques. Of particular interest was a method of joining knitted panels on the machine but creating a row of holes on one side of a panel every 4 rows then picking up the edge stitches through these holes on the next panel to be knitted. It made for an interesting twisted effect at the seam.
For the Charity Stall at the Marsden Hospital
This is just a few of the huge number of items that members donated. Thank you to everyone who gave so generously.
