Knit and Natter 2010

 

Knit and Natter 2010

 

The event was well attended by over 120 visitors.

The morning began with setting up for workshop leaders, traders and club members:

The [nearly] empty hall which Pat and Fran,  their families and other helpers had spent hours putting together on Friday evening.

Pat welcomes guests.

Guild chairman Liz Holness setting up for her Machine Knitting Clinic, with Jane Harrisson setting up her Chain Free Crochet [see Hints and Tips – Foundation Crochet for instruction sheet]

 

Shops setting up.

Doris and Doria setting up the entrance.

Raffle prizes on display

Bill King chats to committee members during a break from setting up

Gloria sets up her Whizzy Knitting stand

 

 

The first few visitors arrived early:

 

 

But soon the fun began, with all kinds of activities:

Part of Bill’s colourful display

 

The club display of hand made buttons:  see Hints and Tips for details of how to do this

The display also included Hand Manipulated stitches from a workshop by Susan Guagliumi

The charity knitting stall – before the event.  During the event this grew and grew!

The Guild of Machine Knitters stand

Tunisian Crochet in action

I had a workshop/display of patchwork knitting, the patterns from which are on this site under Patterns.  I wore this cardi

 

which I knitted from the pattern in this book

Bill begins his marathon workshop, and visitors explore

 

Uppingham yarns on display

 

Woolley Weights

 

And after lunch we were treated to an amazing presentation by Bill King and his fantastic collection of knitting samples, with so many ideas for machine knitting, that we will be kept busy until next year!