KCG2303 – Shaping Knitting: how different stitches alter the knitted fabric by Alison Ellen
Explore with Alison Ellen how stitches alter the width and length of knitted fabric.
KCG2302 – Collecting Patterns – Emma Vining
Emma Vining describes how she collects pattern inspiration, and how she uses these ideas to develop her original hand knitting designs.
Coventry Knit Wits
Hand knitting, Crochet, Other.
Unaffiliated group.
Golden Cross pub, 8 Hay Lane, Coventry CV1 5RF.
Alison Peck
Christmas – Advent Calendar (MK)
Christmas - Advent Calendar: An advent calendar with small pockets to hold individually wrapped sweets (for example).
Alison Peck
Christmas Crackers (MK)
Christmas Crackers - a pattern for Japanese machines using 4ply yarn.
Wool on Wheels – South Wales
No discounts offered to members.
Location: This shop is mobile around Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan.
Telephone: 0774 638 011
Online: Wool on Wheels Facebook group
Email: woolonwheels17@outlook.com.
AN014 – Across the Needlebed – October 2023
Christmas is coming, Recycling old credit cards, The Sybil Kenton donation
Photo: K&CG Collection
Barbara Smith to teach on V&A course
Barbara Smith, our publications curator for the Collection, will be lecturing as part of the V&A Knitting of the British Isles: A Hands-On History course on 21st February 2024. Barbara…
Photo: Jeanette Sloan
Birthday honour for knitting campaigner
Huge congratulations to Jeanette Sloan, knitwear designer and founder of BIPOC in Fiber, who has been named in King Charles’ first birthday honours list. Jeanette has been awarded the British Empire Medal in recognition of her career as a knitwear designer and her efforts to make the fibre space more inclusive, diverse and welcoming for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour.
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