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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

December 2013 This meeting was mainly a social and Christmas market. Wendy Piper brought her Knits n Bits shop, and members crowded around it for bargains. Many members entered our end of year competition, some of the entries are pictured below.     The winning entry was by Margaret, pictured here receiving her trophy, and… Read more