April, our new chairman, gave out various notices and introduced our speaker for the evening. There was a request that someone else take charge of the club library. This involves bringing in a couple of boxes of books and patterns each month and keeping a check on who has borrowed what.
Speaker
This month, Anu Baldwin who is one of the members talked about her creative journey in the craft of machine knitting. Anu makes wonderful hats and other items.
She took up machine at college whilst on an Art and Design course and followed that with a City and Guilds course in machine knitting. She showed us some of the work from her courses.
Having started by making jumpers for sale and finding that rather uneconomic she branched out into making smaller more colourful items especially hats. Her success with this during the 1990’s meant her work was mentioned in a Machine Knitting News. She recently attended classes at Morley college where there is a course in more creative machine knitting. She has continued to create innovative items with amazing colours and textures.
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Show and tell
April brought in a silver jumper with a pretty crocheted edge.
Yarn Sale
During coffee there was a sale of yarn offered by a former machine knitter who is downsizing.
After that we took the opportunity to look more closely at Anu’s garments and chat to her about them.
