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.
‘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.
‘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.
‘Getting started with designing’ with Angharad Thomas
Leader: Angharad Thomas
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.
‘Knitting with beads’ with 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.
‘Try tapestry crochet’ with 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.
‘Braids and edgings’ with Alison Peck
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‘Double brioche’ with 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!
