This was also a club night, to start there were quite a few notices:
- Next month we will meet at Chessington Garden centre for lunch. Contact Gill if you will definitely come along, get there for around 12:00, we will try to book a table once we know number
- In September, Joyce Meader will be our speaker, most of us remember her excellent and entertaining talk earlier in the year about historic patterns and she will continue this theme to more modern times.
- The programme is under construction for September onwards – see separate item for a draft list.
- Three members went the Guild AGM – April, Gill and Lyn. It was a very very hot day but entertaining with two speakers.
- Finally, there was a message from April who had been contacted by the Guild secretary Diana Leverson. Apparently there were too few people to form a proper committee this year and they are hoping people will give some time to be on a county Advisory Panel.
The subject this time was Edgings
Margaret demonstrated a non-roll edging that she had found online a Diana Sullivan YouTube video can be viewed here. She used the club chunky machine and a garter bar to start and finish the sample, then transfer tools to change the stitches on every other row. The garter bar was done by turning the work every other rows. It made an interesting edging to replace ribbing on jackets and baby blankets for example. It can also be done on a tighter tension and turning every 2 rows to replace ribbing for a change or for a button band.
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Frances did one of her lovely edgings/trims this month to show us, it used I-cords to weave and the number of stitches had to be divisible by 4. It gave a cabled look to the garment edge. She also showed us a double e-wrap cast-on which gave a firmer edge useful for heavier garments and those that would get more wear – kids cuffs etc.
There is a Youtube video by Marianne Henio who interestingly posted on her Facebook page about the same technique at the start of August.
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Show and Tell
Again this month several people brought in their makes, Sheila had a summer weight scarf and Angie had a pretty little girle dress with bead detail.
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Guild AGM
Below are a few snaps from the guild day in June.
Our clever knitters won the Sherbourne Vase – this is a group entry, one of the categories in the Guild’s annual competition series. This year 3 people – April, Gill and Anu entered as the category stated that 3 knitters had to be involved. Congratulations to them all. The Guild keep the entry for one year to take to all the knitting shows, we will have the chance to see it at one or wait a whole year before it is returned.
Sherbourne Vase Certificate |
We Won! |
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Bookham Entry |
Bookham Entry |
Bookham Entry |
Guild day |
Competition Entries |
Competition Entries |
Display with I-cords |
Local club display |
Minniture House all knitted |
Minniture House all knitted |
Minniture House all knitted |
Minniture House all knitted – even the loo |
