Guild news items
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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Updated: 28 October 2024 Unforeseen circumstances mean that we are looking for a Company Secretary. Our Company Secretary is a volunteer role, and the office holder must be a member…
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.
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…
To allow more of you to visit regularly, the Collection team are now opening the doors to Britannia Mill on the first Saturday of the month in 2023.
