• Patrons:
  • Debbie Abrahams
  • Kaffe Fassett
  • Sasha Kagan
  • Jean Moss
  • President: Richard Rutt
  • Established: 1978

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Buy your:
  • Books
  • Tools
  • Accessories
  • Knitting needles
  • Crochet hooks
  • French knitting
  • Lucets
  • Yarns
  • 'Learn to' Packs
  • Weaving Sticks
  • Knitting kit
  • Pins
  • Sock yarn
  • Tunisian crochet hooks and books
  • Knit Pro needles and hooks
  • Zephyr Lace weight yarn
  • Fiddlesticks Exquisite Lace weight yarn
  • Special Offers
  • Christmas Books
  • … and more from
KCG Trading Limited

Shop on-line at
http://buy.at/kcg

the Guild will receive commission from Perfiliate Technologies Ltd – Over 80 (r)etailers support this scheme



Knitting & Crochet Guild Ltd
Registered Office:
Unit 4, Lee Mills, Scholes, Holmfirth, HD9 1RJ
Company No: 05457452
Incorporated: 19.05.2005
Memorandum and Articles
of Association

Reg. Charity No: 1113468
Contact: email
Webmaster: James Walters

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The Home of Hand- and Machine-Knitting and Crochet
– Education, Innovation, Preservation



Lee Mills/Collection/Library: Volunteers needed
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Craft Club –KNIT 1: PASS IT ON!
A national campaign for craft in schools
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Knit a Neuron!
Visit the 'Knit a Neuron' blog and find out all about the project and who's behind it, along with knitting and crochet patterns
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Join the Marie Curie Blooming Great Tea Party and Knit a Tea Cosy!
Closing date for entries: 31 August
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Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award: Love Lace
– Call for expressions of interest

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Calling all languishing or redundant knitting machines!
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Knit a square … and make an AIDS orphan warm
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The Barbara Walker Treasury Project
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Are you harbouring a UFO? Join the UFO Project Administration Service!
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Knit a Poem!
To celebrate the Poetry Society's centenary, by helping to create the world's first giant knitted poem, knitters everywhere were invited to knit a poem one letter at a time. The final poem, in all its knitted glory was revealed on 7 October
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K&CG Members' Yahoo Group
Want to have more contact with K&CG members? Want to have a say in how your Guild develops? Well you can by joining the K&CG online Yahoo Group – just email Yvonne Davies for details, quoting your name, K&CG membership number and annual subscription renewal date.
Advertise in 'SlipKnot'– our quarterly journal?
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Something to sell … buy, swap, barter or just give away?
If you have any knitting or crochet yarn, equipment, books, magazines, pattern leaflets, etc, you want to dispose of, or there is something you desperately need, then our 'Stash•4•Cash' is the place to advertise it
• More info

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About the Guild

Welcome to the Knitting & Crochet Guild

We were formed to promote and encourage the crafts of hand-knitting, machine-knitting and crochet.

Background and Activities

The Knitting & Crochet Guild is a registered national educational charity supported by subscriptions and donations and administered by volunteers. It was established in 1978 to preserve and nurture the skills of knitting and crochet and to conserve what is a major part of our cultural and craft heritage.

Now in its 32nd year, the Guild has accumulated an important and rapidly-growing Collection of garments, samples, domestic knitting machines, yarns, tools and ephemera related to knitting and crochet over the last 200 years, as well as setting up a well-stocked Library of books, periodicals and patterns.

The Guild has also been successful in mounting exhibitions and running courses and workshops as part of an expanding education programme. It has been active in producing commercial publications, establishing a book and Pattern Search Service and HelpLine, publishing a substantial quarterly journal (SlipKnot), setting up regional groups, providing displays and clinics at national yarn fairs, selling Heritage Kits and much more.

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Aims and Objectives

The Guild aims to promote the crafts of knitting and crochet by raising public awareness of these traditional skills and drawing attention to their usefulness, versatility and beauty. There is also a need to promote a feeling of fellowship amongst those still practising these crafts, including ethnic groups with their own knitting and crocheting traditions, and to encourage people to share their common heritage.

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The Next Step

The next step in the expansion of Guild activities is a major one. A Museum / Education Centre needs to be established in large safe and secure premises to allow the now large Collection and Library to be used to their full potential.

Join the Knitting & Crochet Guild.

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