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Oxford Regional Day – 5 July 2025
5 July @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm
The Oxford Regional Day is on Saturday 5 July at St Anne’s College. We have two excellent keynote speakers, Dr Barbara Smith (the Guild’s Publications Curator) and designer Mary Henderson, plus a super choice of workshops.
Make a weekend of it and join our optional free programme on the morning of Sunday 6 July, focusing on historic textiles in Oxford.
The Programme
Keynote Speakers
Barbara Smith: The Evolution of Aran Style. Barbara Smith is Publications Curator for the Knitting & Crochet Guild. Since2011 she has been sorting and cataloguing the magazines, pattern bookletsand leaflets for the Guild’s Collection. She writes regularly about knitting history
Mary Henderson: A Fair Isle Journey. Mary Henderson is a well-known designer with her patterns published regularlyin ‘The Knitter’ and ‘Simply Knitting’. She is an expert in colourwork and is particularly known for her Fair Isle designs.
Workshops
- Knitting intarsia in the round
- Designing a knitted mini-lace shawl
- Knitting complicated cables
- Fair Isle tips and techniques
- Knitting negative spaces
Click on the image below to view the full programme.
Booking
Book online at https://forms.office.com/r/yTy2bBKPEX (if you would prefer a paper form, please email us).
A meat-free buffet lunch and refreshments are included in the fee for the day (£58 Knitting & Crochet Guild (K&CG) members/£63 non-K&CG members).
Optional overnight accommodation
St Anne’s has some accommodation available if you wish to make a weekend of it – all details and a special booking code are on the online form. (Other rooms are available here: https://www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/city/oxford/home/, as well as in local hotels of course.)
Special for this year
We have a very special raffle this year with great prizes including a £50 gift card for the Oxford Yarn Store, ten balls of Rowan Kidsilk Haze in Alhambra, and much more.
Oxford Branch
07753 602897
oxfordkcg@gmail.com
