Keynote: ‘The Game of Wool’ by Ailsa Stephen
Speaker: Ailsa Stephen
Craft: General
Experience: Suitable for all
Summary: Ailsa will talk about her experience as a contestant on Channel4’s The Game of Wool.
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: David Griffel
Making and using T-shirt yarn with Clare Griffel
Tutor: Clare Griffel
Craft: Hand Knitting, Crochet
Experience: Basic
Summary: Learn the best way to make old T-shirts into yarn, and make a start on knitting or crocheting an item using the yarn.
Photo credit: Steve Foreman
Casting on – let me count the ways with Rachel Lemon
Tutor: Rachel Lemon
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Summary: You don’t have to cast on or off in the same manner for every item you knit – how stretchy do you want your rib? Fancy knitting toe-up socks? We’ll cover ribs, crochet and casting-on in two directions at once. I’ll have samples so you can choose which to try.
Photo credit: Steve Foreman
Let’s learn intarsia together with Steve Foreman
Tutor: Steve Foreman
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Confident Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Summary: After this workshop you will be able to use a chart, plan your intarsia project, and knit motifs using intarsia when knitting flat. If you are experienced in knitting in the round and knitting flat intarsia there may be time for you to learn intarsia in the round.
