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September 2013
September 9th 2013 Felting and Embellishing This month’s meeting involved a demonstration by Hazel Green, who featured on the cover of the latest Guild of Machine Knitters’ newsletter. She brought us a huge collection of felted knitting, and showed us how she made various bags and other accessories, including embellishments. Although the picture is… Read more
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August 2013
August 12th 2013 Knitting in Different Directions This was a very busy meeting, with Doris knitting the Bill King beret, Pat knitting her corkscrew scarf [click here for pattern], and Lynda showing circular cushions using the pattern on this website [scroll down for pattern], and a pin cushion made using the pattern for this month… Read more
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Pin Cushion
A small pin cushion knitted using holding position to create circles – click picture for pattern Read more
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July 2013
July 8th 2013 Beryl Jarvis was our visiting demonstrator today and the subject was Knitweave. She showed us how to set up for weaving, then used weaving with Card 1 in various ways. As ever, she was adept at describing how the machine works, and we were able to see her work at weaving with… Read more
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Cropped Cardi
This is a 4 ply waist length cardigan. You can knit it as I have done, with no front, like a shrug, or with a V-necked front. Most 4 ply yarns are suitable, you may have to adjust the KM tension – I knitted it in Shamal and used T6 [the pattern says T7, which… Read more
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June 2013
June 10th 2013 I-cord and circular knitting We demonstrated how to make an i-cord, using hand knitting [double pointed needles], French knitting [as in 4 nails in the top of a cotton reel as with this supplier click this link for more details, or a more modern version which does it automatically- click… Read more
Long Buckby Machine Knitters 