Photo credit: Jane Crowfoot
Time slots for programmes (numbered)
‘How to deliver a Trunk Show’ with the Collections Team
Leader: Collections Team
Craft: General
Experience: An interest in presenting a trunk show for your branch.
Summary: The Collections Team is bringing a trunk show of some of the more unusual items in the Guild’s Collection for a branch to take away and present locally.
Photo credit: Barbara Smith
‘Ingenious Inventions’ with Barbara Smith
Leader: Barbara Smith
Craft: Hand Knitting, Crochet
Experience: Any
Summary: The workshop will allow participants to examine closely some tools, gadgets and other items (from the Guild collection and my own) that were innovative at the time – shown by the fact that they were patented.
Photo credit: Kelly Ferguson
‘Introduction to Yorkshire Buttons’ with Kelly Ferguson
Leader: Kelly Ferguson
Craft: General (weaving)
Experience: Beginner
Summary: Learn how to create a Yorkshire Button using a small template and your yarn stash.
Photo credit: Rosemary Bowers
‘Introducing Double Filet – the Double Granny Square’ with Rose Bowers
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.
The original painting is in the National Portrait Gallery
Keynote: ‘‘So tangled up in wool’: what knitting in twentieth-century fiction reveals about women’s lives’ by Helen Pleasance
Speaker: Helen Pleasance
Craft: General interest
Experience: No experience required
Summary: Helen untangles some of the meanings knitting takes on in fiction.
Photo credit: Rachel Lemon
‘Stripes in the round’ with Rachel Lemon
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.
Image credit: Steve Foreman
‘Adapting to fit’ with Steve Foreman
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.
Image credit: Steve Foreman
‘From Inspiration to design’ with 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.
‘Knitting with wire’ with Lynda Fiendley
Leader: Lynda Fiendly
Craft: Hand knitting
Experience: Basic knitting skills
Summary: We will use knitting to make a wire bracelet, adding beads
for variety.
