June 09 meeting
Around twenty members braved the cold and wet weather to meet up this month.
Our machines must have been working overtime as we had a huge show and tell as you will see from the photo’s included.
Apologies if your garment isn’t pictured, it was hard to keep up with everything that was being shown. Anyone who thinks machine knitting is a dying craft just needs to look at the pictures to see just how wide and varied a garment that can be made on even the most basic of machine.
Eleanor reminded us that the NSW MacKnit association subscriptions are due to be renewed by 30th of June.
If you haven’t yet received your renewal form, or you would like to join you will find an application form here.
For a list of future knitting related events that you can print off, please click here. FutureEvents A5
Robin volunteered to give the demonstation this month.
Armed with plenty of knitted squares to give to each member along with some yarn and a needle, we were all encrouraged to have a go whilst Robin walked us through the art of Swiss darning (also called duplicate stitch or knitting stitch embroidery)
Here are a couple of samples members completed after the demonstration.
Thanks to Robin for the time spent getting everything ready for this demonstration.
Show & Tell
It’s hard to know where to start this month, there were so many items brought in,
Baby garments, scarfs, dresses, skirts, jumpers & cardigans, sleeveless tops and even a tea cosy were just some of the items brought in.
Examples included intarsia, mixed knitting and quilting were all there to be seen.
Here are a few items that I managed to photograph, they are listed in no particular order
