Dabbling and fiddling

Last night we said Goodbye to Creed Street Theatre and Arts Centre in Wolverton; it's been grand running our sessions from their inspiring and vibrant tea room. Enjoying the exhibitions on its walls and tapping along to the Creedy rhythm of dance and drama groups. KNS wish Creed Street much Love on their adventures and will enjoy their Flea Markets for years to come!
Many thanks especially to Danny Quinn for making us so welcome and looking after us.


KNS Returns to New Bradwell Community Centre - Monday 17th June 2013
presenting...... Sue's Stitch Along!
Yes, we return with a BANG, to celebrate the art of Stitching and how versatile it can be; with Sue's demonstration of pattern transferring. You all saw the skull that Sue recently enjoyed finishing off at our session, we have prepared some designs or you can make up your own to transfer onto fabric.
Sue will be posting more information, what to bring with you and kits will be available on the night.
Its going to be one brilliant stitch along, so don't miss out!

Onto this weeks session of dabbling and fiddling..... Judy busied away on her City and Guilds work, we hope to see more of this in the coming weeks as they come up to deadline and look to finish. We have all enjoyed seeing Jane's City & Guilds students work at our sessions, looking at the techniques and colours they have used has been cause of much talk amongst our members. If you are interested in finding out more about the City & Guilds course please check out this link:
http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/adulteducation/displayarticle.asp?ID=90872

Pat, Eleanor and Terri were holding fort with the Crochet camp, whilst I joined our shiny new member Katie and Sandra with the Cross Stitch. Katie brought along a rose design that she's stitching for a friend, Sandra is back on the skull cushions, the Christmas stitching continues and I went back to my old friend and UFO The Winter Queen by Mirabillia.
At the far end of the crafting table was new members Pauline, Maggie and Bonnie with their Knitting of all shades featuring some fabulous techniques, including Loopy and Lace! joining in with the knitting, Barbara is still plodding away with her yellow baby blanket or UFO 2nd prize fame.

We all admired Pat's Daisy Granny blanket in progress, Pat tipped us off on this delicious design from Tillietulip's blog here: http://tillietulip.blogspot.co.uk/
The finished squares have a striking daisy design in the centre, Pat's lilac and lemon yarn is coming along nicely, I will get some pictures up as it is beautiful. TillieTulip's blog features some other scrummy work, you must have a read... And if you like this take a look at Attic24 for more inspiring works.

Many thanks go to Sandra for the yummy homemade Strawberry flan and Devonshire custard - super scrummy! The cake and tea went down a treat after our little break last week!

Some exciting news! The KNS Charity knit this summer will be supporting SANDS and their call for hand knitted blankets for their Always loved Never forgotten Memory Boxes.SANDS, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity www.uk-sands.org are crying out for more hand knitted blankets for their memory boxes and I know we can help them. So calling all knitters? If you would like to support this and join us please come and see Judi Gale and Eleanor Cooper - for a copy of the pattern, if we have enough interest we can bulk buy some white dk - so please get in touch. This charity touches the hearts of our members, SANDS supports anyone affected by the death of a baby and promotes research to reduce the loss of babies' lives.
I can't wait to see how many blankets we can craft for this very worthy cause! I will check out the pattern and size, then suggest a date we work towards getting our efforts completed for - making for a themed session presenting the completed works and some fundraising cake sale too!

Finally, Lisette Vredenburg from University Inholland Haarlem in the Netherlands has contacted us to ask for our help. Lisette is completing her dissertation project and conducting a survey in collaboration with Blacker Yarns and Design in an effort to better understand younger knitters.

 She needs 384 respondents in the age group 20 - 35 years old who are located in the United Kingdom. The survey exists out of 25 questions and will only take 5 – 10 minutes to complete. Here is the link: http://www.thesistools.com/web/?id=350394 - I hope the younger members can help?           

So now I am off out to stock up on yarn, to start my SANDS blanket.... I am too excited in getting started, I know. See you all back in New Bradwell Community Centre on Monday from 7.45pm!

 

Happy Stitching

Sarah

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