Meeting Notes and notices

This  was a now customary Zoom meeting. However, as your webmaster was otherwise occupied there is no detailed write up.

Just the following to note – it has been felt that these meetings on Zoom will continue until at least Christmas given the demographics of the club members.

Margaret gave details of some charity knitting for Kingston Hospital – members should have received and email.  Baby cot and pram size blankets for new Mums.  Email Margaret for details.

Another sucessful meeting using Zoom, we are getting quite good with it and around 12 people managed to get online this month.

After a general chat, we started with a Show and Tell session, nearly all the items knitted were cardigans, they must be inspired by the cool summer weather we’ve had recently:

Barbara had a lovely blue hand knitted one in double knit but she has yet to get any buttons. 

April had machine knitted an alpaca yarn in a shade of brown with a peplum and a garter stitched collar, very attractive, she also told us about some yellow shetland yarn she had bought to make a throw using a sculptered garter stitch pattern #473 .  She had also sewn some Christmas decorations in felt.

Ann also had a pretty blue cardigan – the first she had made since moving house and having had her machines packed away for some time. 

Clare had a cardigan in a pale blue using 3 ends of Uppingham’s crepe yarn. This was in a stitch pattern she had used in the past for a jumper. 

Margaret had been shopping for fabric and made a super V necked  t-shirt with stripes – all matched up at the seams.

Frances had made some face masks

Angie had crocheted a pretty cushion cover.

Tricia had been altering some curtains.

Lyn had been experimenting with neoprene fabric – making some simple face masks.

Finally Gill asked if anyone had been making the mask dolls for children in hospitals – Barbara had finished some and Clare had nearly completed one. This is ongoing as children in hospital will need these to help any anxiety when hospital staff are wearing masks.

Margaret suggested that by Christmas we should all have made some decorations which can be used  as presents instead of our usual Secret Santa arrangement at the Christmas Party. Let’s hope we are al out of lockdown by then.

Finally, it was agreed that we would have an August meeting – normally the club has a break then but this year it seems likely that most members will be at home as nearly everybody is a senior citizen and being super careful about not picking up the virus by going out and about much.

Thanks to Margaret for arranging the meeting and to Gill for chairing it.

We had a very jolly Zoom meeting with 13 people attending,  instead of an evening meeting we held this in the form of a coffee morning. Several people had items for the show and tell including Barbara who had done several baby items in both hand and machine knitting.   The Chair’s “homework” was an Alison Dupernex pattern and we saw several items and work in progress from various members.

There were quite a few members making scrubs for NHS staff and masks as well – lots of discussion around this mainly patterns and fabric used. Well done to all those who had made loads of scrubs and masks for the NHS.

As this Zoom format worked really well we will continue meeting online until the Pandemic lockdown rules are changed and we can safely meet again – bearing in mind many members are very elderly.

This was cancelled due to to Covid-19 pandemic.

At the March meeting we looked at different stitch techniques by the designer Bill King.
 We chose to look at single bed work only. All involved hand manipulation of stitches and a discussion followed of where these patterns could be used. Various difficulties were discussed as to yarn and tension required for moving several stitches at once.

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It was a very interesting evening as most people had read his articles in Machine Knitting Monthly magazine and could see them demonstrated by members of the club.

There were several items in the show and tell section,  our chairman Gill had created a cushion cover using the plating technique that was covered in the last meeting.  There was a hand knitted blue childs jumper and a Batwing sweater using a Bill King design. 

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