Image credit: Sew Woolly
Sew-Woolly – Cheadle
No discounts offered to members.
Location: 3 Rectory Court, Cheadle. Stockport. SK8 1DW
Telephone: 07905 741969
Website: sew-woolly.co.uk
Email: elizabeth@sew-woolly.co.uk
Photo credit: Lindy Zubairy.
“Tunisian crochet bandana/shawl” with Lindy Zubairy
Leader: Lindy Zubairy
Craft: Tunisian Crochet
Experience: Beginner upwards
Summary: Working from a pattern, we will make a Tunisian Crochet bandana (a triangle). The pattern calls for Tunisian Simple stitch but after a few rows, you can try out any new stitch – a variety of stitch instructions will be provided. This project can end as a bandana/cowl or continue growing into a shawl – up to you!
Photo credit: Jane Crowfoot
‘Beaded crochet’ with Jane Crowfoot
Image credit: The Wool Cellar
The Wool Cellar
No discounts offered to members.
Location: 27 High Street, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol BS37 6BA
Telephone: 07973 480960
Website: www.thewoolcellar.co.uk
Email: info@thewoolcellar.co.uk
‘How to deliver a Trunk Show’ with the Collections Team
Leader: Collections Team
Craft: General
Experience: An interest in presenting a trunk show for your branch.
Summary: The Collections Team is bringing a trunk show of some of the more unusual items in the Guild’s Collection for a branch to take away and present locally.
Photo credit: Barbara Smith
‘Ingenious Inventions’ with Barbara Smith
Leader: Barbara Smith
Craft: Hand Knitting, Crochet
Experience: Any
Summary: The workshop will allow participants to examine closely some tools, gadgets and other items (from the Guild collection and my own) that were innovative at the time – shown by the fact that they were patented.
Photo credit: Kelly Ferguson
‘Introduction to Yorkshire Buttons’ with Kelly Ferguson
Leader: Kelly Ferguson
Craft: General (weaving)
Experience: Beginner
Summary: Learn how to create a Yorkshire Button using a small template and your yarn stash.
Photo credit: Rosemary Bowers
‘Introducing Double Filet – the Double Granny Square’ with Rose Bowers
Leader: Rose Bowers
Craft: Crochet
Experience: Beginner
Summary: This will be an easy introduction to double filet which involves simultaneously creating two interwoven pieces of filet mesh, sometimes also known as interlocking.
The original painting is in the National Portrait Gallery
Keynote: ‘‘So tangled up in wool’: what knitting in twentieth-century fiction reveals about women’s lives’ by Helen Pleasance
Speaker: Helen Pleasance
Craft: General interest
Experience: No experience required
Summary: Helen untangles some of the meanings knitting takes on in fiction.
