Several people responded to the Royal Surrey Hospital’s request to have knitted dolls or teddies with face masks, these wil be given to children in hospital to help alleviate anxiety caused by seeing the nurses and doctors in masks.
Here are two collections:
Barbara and Gill’s masked dollsTeddies in Scrubs by Clare
The club is meeting regularly - online - we have monthly Zoom coffee mornings on the second Wednesday of the month at 10:30 where we do a "show and tell" session and keep up to date with our members.
Due to the age profile of the membership there is not much likelihood of us having any face to face meetings in the foreseeable future. But we are considering having more content in our online meetings.
If you have not joined in so far it is very straightforward, Margaret sends out an email with a link and you need to click on it. It may ask you for the password which is in the email. You will need a device with a working camera if you are going to show anything you've made. A laptop computer, tablet computer or iPad are best but even a smartphone is possible.
New and used machines, spares, repairs, yarn, classes, patterns. Doug also has used Hague Linkers and thousands of useful bits and bobs as well. The place is an alladin's cave for machine knitters. Note opening times - not every day.
In addition to machine knitting classes given by Brenda, she also does lace making.
Based In Austin Texas, Diana Sullivan has a large range of tutorials and YouTube videos as well as patterns both free and paid for, DVD's for sale etc. This is her blog which gives links to all her items.
A well known US machine knitter who has some online Craftsy Classes as well as some excellent books, including those for those people who have simple or the plastic mid-gauge machines which have no patterning facility.
A video platform where there is such a huge range of videos both amateur and professional that it defies description.
For machine knitters, search for machine knitting in the box at the top to get a list of items. You can subscribe to people you like to see more of their things and get notifications if you want to when they post a new item.
Note to newbies, please be careful - not everything is benign.
The House of Lavene has a completely new approach to creating designer knitwear. Launched by ‘Anne Lavene in 1985 the House has become known throughout the world for it’s stunning knitwear designs
