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Your Board is delighted to have accepted Alison Peck’s offer to act as Chair of the Guild until Convention 2025.
Alison will use her enthusiasm and considerable skills to lead and coordinate the work of the Board.
Alison has been a member of the Board for almost six years, is the editor of Across the Needlebed, and was the Guild’s Treasurer until 2024. She has also contributed machine knitting workshops at Conventions.
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Our North Norfolk Branch will be visited by BBC radio during the morning of 14th January 2025, and will be trying to teach Edd (the presenter) how to knit. That could be interesting!
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The 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Knitting & Crochet Guild was held at 11am on 7 September 2024 at High Leigh Conference Centre, Lord Street, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, EN11 8SG.
By Desiree Jeans If you’re looking for new inspiration, different designers to follow, and up-and-coming dyers to support, then maybe a creative social media challenge is what you need to…
Our Collections Team will again be running Open Days and Drop-in Days in 2024.
This is an online talk on 11th February (6pm - 7pm UK time) by Dr Angharad Thomas, a volunteer at the Guild's Collection. It will cover her book "A Knitters Guide to Gloves" and give information about the Knitting & Crochet Guild of the UK, and our Collections.
How to buy a gift membership of the Knitting & Crochet Guild for someone else. You can buy gift membership whether or not you are a member yourself.
Congratulations to Tricia Basham who is a joint winner in this year’s Heritage Crafts/Marsh Volunteer of the Year award! This award marks Tricia’s outstanding contribution to the Knitting & Crochet…
Barbara Smith, our publications curator for the Collection, will be lecturing as part of the V&A Knitting of the British Isles: A Hands-On History course on 21st February 2024. Barbara…
Huge congratulations to Jeanette Sloan, knitwear designer and founder of BIPOC in Fiber, who has been named in King Charles’ first birthday honours list. Jeanette has been awarded the British Empire Medal in recognition of her career as a knitwear designer and her efforts to make the fibre space more inclusive, diverse and welcoming for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour.
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