This first half of this month’s meeting was allocated to the Annual General Meeting, which included a review of the last AGM minutes, and reports from the chairman, the treasurer, the webmaster and the secretary. The existing committee was re-elected for another year.
Members were able to browse back copies of magazines to purchase to raise funds for the club during the break.
During the second half of the meeting one our our members, Sarah, displayed and explained the generation and development of her work on her knitting machine(s). Starting in the 90’s her knitted pieces were focused heavily on fair-isle techniques, along with a fun reproduction of a Lego top in intarsia for her son, and an accomplished fair isle coat (only worn once). Sarah showed some beautiful Irish Bishop inspired shawls with short rows and multi-coloured panels. Her later work has mirrored simpler fashions and simpler techniques, including cut and sew techniques, seat covers and casual shrugs. Sarah showed us some great ways of using up scraps of knitting and using up yarn. Her work has been inspired by colour, hand knitting books and magazines, and her most recent hobby of water colour painting.
View the short video below to see some of Sarah’s creations.
