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Travels with my knitting machine - Nic Corrigan

KCG2502 – Travels with my Knitting Machine – Nic Corrigan

In this talk, given at Convention 2025, Nic Corrigan explains how her passion for machine knitting was kindled and how it has taken over her life ...
Title slide from Jane Crowfoot's video "The comfort of blankets"

KCG2501 – The comfort of blankets – Jane Crowfoot

Jane Crowfoot shows examples of her work and talk about her design process, as well as her mission to highlight the differences between home-made and handmade, the importance of recognising yarn crafts as a stage for creativity, and the validation of traditional skills ...

KCG2303 – Shaping Knitting: how different stitches alter the knitted fabric by Alison Ellen

Explore with Alison Ellen how stitches alter the width and length of knitted fabric ...

KCG2304 – Reknit Revolution – Amy Twigger-Holroyd

Amy Twigger-Holroyd presents twenty years of exploring sustainability through knitting ...
Classic knits of the 80s. Professor Sandy Black.

KCG2204 – Classic Knits of the 80s

This talk, presented at Convention 2022, looks at the new wave of British knitwear designers that emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s, that was named a ‘Knitwear Revolution’ by fashion writer Suzy Menkes in her 1983 book of the same name ...
Knitting, STEM and social media. Lily Kate France. Photos of Lily Kate wearing her On the Dot jumper

KCG2403 – Knitting & STEM & Social Media – Lily Kate France

Lily discusses the considerable overlap on the science / creativity Venn diagram and how it impacts her work. This talk was given at Convention 2024. (54m) ...
Crochet, Craft and Social Media - Sue Maton. Examples of crochet blankets with flowers and stars.

KCG2402 – Crochet, Craft & Community – Sue Maton

Using examples of her designs, and course members’ work, Sue explains her design process, what inspires and drives her, and how she sees her work developing in the future. This talk was given at Convention 2024. (54m) ...
The Fashionable Craft - Vikki Haffenden. Images of covers of books written by Vikki.

KCG2401 – The Fashionable Craft: A fresh Look at Machine Knitting – Vikki Haffenden

In this talk given at Convention 2024 Vikki Haffenden shares some of her thoughts about how her books are contributing to the current resurgence of interest in machine knitting. (1h) ...

KCG2301 – Tales from the Mill by Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith explores the Knitting & Crochet Guild's Collection. (37m) ...

KCG2302 – Collecting Patterns – Emma Vining

Emma Vining describes how she collects pattern inspiration, and how she uses these ideas to develop her original hand knitting designs ...