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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

November 2013 Let’s Twist Again This was a demonstration/ exhibition of various pieces of equipment relating to twisting and preparing yarns, including: Cord twister Daruma yarn twister Skein winder Also on show was our newly purchased LK150, and a demonstration of using Kumihimo discs.   This month’s pattern is based on a design by Sue…

Long Buckby Knit and Natter 2013   This annual event was less well attended than previous years, but that left more room to move for the attendees, and they certainly used the space!   There were activities around the theme of flowers, including flower looms, crochet, knitting and knitting boards, as well as clinics in…

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…

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…

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…