Craft categories for activity programmes
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Photo credit: Helen Jordan
Leader: Helen Jordan
Craft: Crochet
Experience: Advanced beginner
Summary: Have a go at freeform crochet and maybe add a few techniques to your toolkit.
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Leader: Lindy Zubairy
Craft: Crochet
Experience: Confident improver
Summary: This workshop introduces raised (or round-the-post) crochet stitches that can be used to create highly textured fabrics such as ribs and embossed work. Alongside crossed stitches, they also form the basis of the crochet cable stitches we will look at.
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Photo credit: Rachel Lemon
Leader: Rachel Lemon
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Beginner
Summary: We’ll consider different types of top-down jumpers – raglan, yoke, with fitted sleeves. .
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Photo credit: Nicole Hawkesford
Leader: Nicole Hawkesford
Craft: Hand Knitting, Crochet, Machine Knitting
Experience: Suitable for all
Summary: In this workshop we will cover key body measurements for well-fitting garments, understanding ease, and what to think about with different styles of jumper/constructions. You’ll come away with your own personal measurement set and knowledge of how to get that perfect-fitting garment.
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Inage credit: Steve Foreman
Leader: Steve Foreman
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Intermediate
Summary: Learn how to knit cables that are a different colour from the background.
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Photo credit: Lynda Fiendly
Leader: Lynda Fiendley
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Confident beginner
Summary: We will knit small shell shapes and learn how to join them to make a larger item.
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Leader Angharad Thomas
Craft: General
Experience: Suitable for all
Summary: This workshop is an opportunity to play with colours, yarns, images and found objects – ribbon, shells, feathers, sweet papers and so on – with the aim of getting ideas for your projects. These can be anything from a garment to a decorative piece. This method is also useful when planning to decorate a room or choose curtains and so on.
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Photo credit: Barbara Smith
Leader: Barbara Smith
Craft: General
Experience: Suitable for all
Summary: A look at some of the tools and gadgets in the Guild collection, some that sold in large numbers and others that didn’t, maybe because they were impractical or too expensive.
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