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April 2014 Sue Booth – Ribber Work Sue made a welcome return, and the meeting was well attended with visitors from far and wide. She showed us various techniques with the ribber, including flat ribs, with interesting patterning across the ribber stitches; as well as racked ribs, fisherman’s ribs and tucking. The sign of a Read more

March 10th 2014 The Single Bed Colour Changer This meeting was focused on how to set up the colour changer, and was demonstrated on Brother and Knitmaster machines. We showed how to do this, then members all had a go at doing it themselves, with many resolving to go and dust off their colour changers Read more

Fair Isle and Single Motifs This was another busy meeting. We showed how to set up for Fair Isle knitting on Knitmaster and Brother machines, and knitted some samples.  Likewise for Single Motif knitting, and this included binding the edges, as well as dealing with floats: References used [some not available at the meeting because Read more