Updates to site
I’m currently working on some improvements to the blog to make it a little more dynamic and interesting. One of the first changes you will notice is the schedule of calendar events listed at the right hand side. Basically any event that is entered into the Machine Knitters google calendar will automatically show up here on this blog. It still needs a little tweaking as the time zone is playing up a little, I enter the times in a local timezone and they appear in GMT, clearly the craft show at darling harbour doesn’t run from 11pm until 7am every day!
The sock workshop that was held a few weeks ago was a great success, Lorna did a great job showing us the various ways to make socks (and slippers) on our machines. There were quite a few machines set up for anyone to have a go on a machine that was familiar to them, we had standard gauge, bulky, Bother, Singer and even Passap machines set up on the day. The committee members and volunteers worked tirelessly to keep us all fed and watered throughout the day – thanks to all involved.
It’s important to attend these workshop if we wish them to carry on, it takes a lot of time and energy to put them together and it’s really only worthwhile if enough people attend. Not to mention the tips and tricks you can pick up along the way!
Talking about workshops, you will see from the calendar that Tony Bennett has a series for workshops coming up soon, if you haven’t bought your ticket yet please contact a committee member.
June’s Epping meeting
Over 20 members braved the cold weather to attend this months meeting, with Margaret giving us a demonstration on a firmer stockinet band, a loopy scarf and a lace border in rib from notes given by Jean Ford.
At next months meeting Jan will be giving us tip on sideways knitting.
The show and tell photo’s have not disappeared, I’m just working out the best way to display them – watch this space.
