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Image credit: Steve Foreman
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.
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Leader: Lynda Fiendly
Craft: Hand knitting
Experience: Basic knitting skills
Summary: We will use knitting to make a wire bracelet, adding beads
for variety.
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Photo credit: Alison Peck
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.
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Photo: Helen Jordan
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.
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Photo credit Alison Peck
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!
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Photo credit: Nicole Hawkesford
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!
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Photo: Jane Crowfoot
Speaker: Jane Crowfoot
Craft: General
Experience: suitable for all abilities.
Summary: Join Jane for this evening presentation where she will show examples of her work and talk about her design process, as well as her mission to highlight the differences between home-made and handmade, the importance of recognising yarn crafts as a stage for creativity, and the validation of traditional skills.
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Photo credit: Maureen Wheeler
Leader: Maureen Wheeler
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Intermediate
Summary: An opportunity to find out more about Bohus knitting techniques and design. Knit your own swatch and adapt colour work patterns.
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Compere: Rachel Lemon
Craft: Hand Knitting, Crochet, Machine Knitting
Experience: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Summary: Our popular Show & Tell returns to give you another chance to show off your creations to other crafters.
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Compere: Rachel Lemon
Craft: Hand Knitting, Crochet, Machine Knitting
Experience: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Summary: Our popular Show & Tell returns to give you another chance to show off your creations to other crafters.
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Image credit: Nic Corrigan
Speaker: Nic Corrigan
Craft: Machine knitting
Experience: no experience needed
Summary: Nic Corrigan discusses her varied career in knitwear design, building her own creative practise, and helping to share her love of machine knitting through tutoring..
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