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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

January 13th 2014 Colour Theory Our first meeting of the new year was devoted to colour theory, as a prelude to demonstrations of techniques used to introduce multiple colours to your work. I presented an audio visual talk on colour theory from various angles: how colour is perceived, using a colour wheel  to choose colour… Read more