Our chairman gave out some notices – in particular about the next few meetings.
- In July, we will be making small items using cone ends, members should come with any small left over yarn to donate and any finished items will go to charity.
- In August, Margaret has been arranging a trip down to Heathercraft for us, we will have an afternoon out down in Faygate with a talk from Brenda, a chance to get Doug to take a look at any items that might need fixing and a cream tea. Doug will also have his model railway working. It is an opportunity to buy yarn and accessories for your machine too. As well as look through the hundreds of magazines and patterns. We will arrange a car pool so we can go down in groups.
- In September we will be having a Knitters Question Time. There will be an expert panel who will try to solve your problems. Please bring questions along to the July meeting if possible.
This month our speaker was Elaine Cater who gave us an interesting talk on using the ribber for more than just ribs on garments. She brought along a range of samples and garments and some of her publications too.
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There were two boards with garments and samples from her books – Ribbing Yarns and a book of ribber baby garments, and a rail full of lovely garments. She talked about a range of interesting techniques and passed around many samples for us to examine.
We thanks Elaine for her talk and the time she spent explaining her work.
Everyone found the talk most interesting and several members mentioned that they would be experimenting with some of the techniques.
