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All Kinds of Machines This meeting was a little different from our usual format. We did have demonstrations, but they were short, and we invited members to try out a variety of different machines: Standard gauge: – Brother 950 electronic with garter carriage [which chugged away in the background for the rest of the meeting!] Read more

June 2015 Rectangle Riot This meeting was all about easy knitting: take a piece of straight, rectangular knitting and see what you can do with it. Committee members demonstrated what they had made: Pat had a headband and a cowl, as well as our handknit pattern this month, Hand Knit Cowl. She also showed fingerless Read more

April 2015 Bill King A Case for Knitting Bill brought not one, but several, cases full of his swatches to share with us. As these are the ones which have been rejected by his buyers, we were left wondering what the others are like, since every one of us was full of admiration for the Read more

March 2015 Beryl Jarvis Ribber work     Beryl gave us an informative demonstration of ribber techniques, and left most of us wanting to get to grips with the ribber immediately.  Even the more experienced knitters were surprised to learn about some of the ‘bits’ that come with the ribber.   Read more