Page 6 – Knitting & Crochet Guild

Tom Daley wearing knitted sleeveless body suit in ping, purple, orange and black and facemask and snorkel covered in yellow knitting.

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Game of Wool – episode 3 (16 Nov)

Week 3 saw the contestants meeting challenges associated with holidays – swimwear and deck chairs! They also met Jane Crowfoot, one of our inspirational patrons.

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Cover of Patons & Baldwin's Helps for Knitters 436. Bathing Suite showing pale wearing one-piece bathing suit leaning against a deck chair.

P&B Helps to Knitters 436 – Bathing Suit

This Bathing Suit pattern was advertised in 1933.

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Cover of Patons & Balwdin's Helps to Knitters 4/452 showing a lady wearing a one-piece horizontally striped bathing suit and a cape.

P&B Helps to Knitters – 4/452 – Bathing Outfit

A pattern for a Bathing Outfit, published in 1933.

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Meadow (centre) and Ailsa (left) working on their team mohair jumper.

Game of Wool – episode 2 (9 Nov)

Week 2 saw the contestants working on dog coats and hats on a theme of “iconic people or places”, and the teams creating 80’s style mohair jumpers. All to very tight timescales.

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Stephanine (left), Ailsa (centre) and Lydia (right) knitting in The Yarn Barn during the Team challenge in episode 1 of the Game of Wool.

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Game of Wool – episode 1 (2 Nov)

It was wonderful to see Knitting & Crochet Guild member Ailsa win the first episode of the Game of Wool with her tank top.

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It was wonderful to see Knitting & Crochet Guild member Ailsa win the first episode of the Game of Wool with her tank top.

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Heathfield Crafts

No discounts offered to members.
Location: 4 Station Approach, Heathfield. East Sussex. TN21 8LG
Telephone: 01435 866709
Website: heathfieldcrafts.co.uk
Email: lisa@heathfieldcrafts.co.uk

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Cover of Marriner's pattern 163 showing a lady ar a fruit market being shown a pineapple. She is wearing a close fitting blue sweater with a geometric knit and purl pattern.

Marriner’s patterns – 1940s-50s

A catalogue of 69 patterns for women. Marriner’s patterns were published after WW2, and the company was one of the first to use colour photography for its leaflets.

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A catalogue of 69 patterns for women. Marriner’s patterns were published after WW2, and the company was one of the first to use colour photography for its leaflets.

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