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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 ...
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 ...
KCG2306 – Knitted Pudsey with Kelly Ferguson
Kelly Ferguson describes how the Knitted Pudsey hanging was created. (9 minutes) ...
NCV21-010 – Patterns to inspire
There are over 50,000 pattern leaflets in the Guild's collection, issued in the U.K. from the 1910s on - a unique resource. This talk shows the range of leaflets in the collection, and some of the really special, unusual and inspiring patterns accessible to Guild members ...
KCG2101 – COVID in Birmingham
In December 2020 members of the Birmingham Branch met by video conference to discuss their activities since the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020. You will see the fantastic crochet and knitted items they had made, learn about some of the techniques they used, and hear how the restrictions of ...
KCG2102 – Unusual craft conversations
Janet Collins leads a discussion on unusual knitted and crocheted items ...
KCG2201 – A Timeline of the Guild
Find out more about the history of the Knitting & Crochet Guild's Collection in this short video about the exhibit created by Julia Halliwell ...
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 ...
