Craft categories for activity programmes
Leader: Rose Bowers
Craft: Crochet
Experience: Beginner
Summary: This will be an easy introduction to double filet which involves simultaneously creating two interwoven pieces of filet mesh, sometimes also known as interlocking.
Speaker: Helen Pleasance
Craft: General interest
Experience: No experience required
Summary: Helen untangles some of the meanings knitting takes on in fiction.
Leader: Rachel Lemon
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: You need to be comfortable with knitting in the round.
Summary: We will explore the practicalities of knitting stripes in the round in dealing with ends and jogless joins. We will look at many different stripe sequences and in particular using Fibonacci.
Leader: Steve Foreman
Craft: Hand Knitting, Crochet, Machine Knitting
Experience: Beginner
Summary: By the end of this workshop we will have identified the steps you would need to go through to modify an existing pattern to create the a garment that was a different size or used a different yarn weight than the original. We will also have identified some on-line resources that you can use to help you with the decisions and calculations needed.
Leader: Steve Foreman (Replaced ‘Getting started with designing by Angharad Thomas at Convention 2025)
Craft: Hand Knitting, Crochet, Machine Knitting
Experience: No specific experience needed
Summary: This workshop will be a fun, hands on introduction to designing your own fabrics starting from pictures or inspirations of your choice – it could be images – postcards, rubbings, wallpapers, or things – pebbles, flowers, stalks and so on ….. Your unique collection of stitches can then be used to make a scarf, a garment, a throw or blanket …. the choice is yours.
Leader: Lynda Fiendly
Craft: Hand knitting
Experience: Basic knitting skills
Summary: We will use knitting to make a wire bracelet, adding beads
for variety.
Leader: Alison Peck
Craft: Machine Knitting
Experience: Beginner
Summary: Beads add both surface decoration and weight to a garment. We will explore the different ways they can be used, and will consider the ‘rules’ you should follow when creating your own designs.
Leader: Helen Jordan
Craft: Crochet
Experience: Beginner upwards.
Summary: Tapestry crochet is a form of colour work. While it can be worked either in the round or back and forth in rows, the latter gives rise to rather a lot of ends to process.
Leader: Alison Peck
Craft: Machine Knitting
Experience: Beginner
Summary: Are you looking for something fancy to cover a seam or put over a fault? Look no further than a braid!
Leader: Nicole Hawkesford
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Intermediate / Advanced
Summary: Open up a world of colour play possibility with syncopated brioche and speed up your knitting with one-pass brioche – no more sliding!
