Regional Branches and Groups
Airedale & Wharfedale
(No details supplied)
Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire
– meetings on last Saturday of the month, 2-4pm in the Nutmeg Needlecrafts Craft Studio, Leighton Buzzard.
Contact: Judith Morley • Tel 01525 379571
Co-ordinator: Jane Barton • Tel 01525 852024 •
email
Birmingham (Warwickshire & West Midlands)
– meeting on Saturdays every two months or so, 11-12.30 in the Edwardian Tea Rooms at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery • We sit at a corner table to have a cup of coffee and knit/crochet, chat and show off our latest work – also exchange yarns and patterns, and give help if required. Non-members are welcome. If you can't make our meetings, the Birmingham Stitch & Bitch group meet in the Tea Rooms every Saturday 11-1.00
Contact: Sarah Cage • Tel 0121 433 3486 •
email
Buckinghamshire
– meetings usually on 4th Tuesday of the month, 2-4pm, in Iver
Contact: Paula Fenwick • 07850 603508 •
email
Derbyshire
– meets 3rd Thursdays of the month, 10am - noon, at The Friends' Meeting House,
St Helen's Street, Derby • £1 (£2 with speaker/demo)
Contact: Mary Hawkins •
email
Devon
(No details supplied)
East London Crochet Group
Contact: Barbara Mann • Tel: 020 8599 3130
East Yorkshire
– meetings at Ellerker village hall, 2-4pm on 3rd Thursday of the month • anyone welcome, tea and coffee available
Contact: Margaret Brooker • phone: 01482 424704 •
email
Leeds & Bradford
– meetings at Headingley St Columba’s United Reformed Church,
Headingley Lane, Leeds LS6 2DH, 7.30pm-9.30pm,
£3 per session including light refreshments, on:
- 2nd Friday of the month
except April when the 2nd Friday owuld be Good Friday - 4th Friday of the month
except December when the 4th Friday is too close to Christmas/New Year
The second meeting is for Knit 'n' Natter and Crochet 'n' Chatter group. Bring along your current project, or something you're having problems with, or something you've finished and want to show everyone.
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New members are always welcome: we’re not experts, just enthusiasts!
– Download current programme for 2009 here
Lincolnshire
– Do you live in Lincolnshire? If so Fiona Baker would love to hear from you as she's planning to set up a Guild BGroup •
email
London
– Venue: Union Chapel Project, Compton Avenue, London N1 (near Highbury & Islington station)
– Bring a packed lunch and a mug; tea and coffee will be provided.
Contact: Eleanor Slingsby on 0783 573 2752 or Winifred Shelton
• Melton Mowbray WE Knit and Sit and Knit:
– WE Knit meets on the first Wednesday of the month ,7.30-9.30, at WE Knit The Crown, Burton Street, Melton Mowbray • No subscription – several car parks near the venue
– Sit and Knit meets on the third Monday of month, 10-12, at 30 Eastfield Avenue, Melton Mowbray • £1 donation to cover refreshments etc, house has a cat and a dog – plentiful street side parking
– Both groups: all abilities are covered and we all share our latest projects and encourage each other offering help as and when required. If you have any good books or magazines bring them along and we will enjoy having a look at them!
Contact:
North Leicestershire
– meets 2nd Monday of the month, 11am-2pm • For venue,
contact co-ordinator or Bea Poulter on 01509 569808
Penzance
– All meetings are from 2pm on the third Monday of the month (except December is the second Monday). As from 16th February we will be meeting at Trevelyan House, Chapel Street, Penzance. This is where we met for the first four years or so of our existence and we are delighted to be able to return there. (We no longer meet at Fountain Court, nor at Iriss' Singer Sewing Centre.) • Contact: Susan Hoyle •
email • View/Download 2009 Programme flyer (pdf)
Pinner
– meets 3rd Tuesday of the month, 2.30-4.30pm, at Café Nero, Love Lane, Pinner, Middlesex
Reading
– Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, 1.45-3.45 from January 2008. The museum is in the Town Hall Building opposite the rear of M&S. Meetings are not always in the same room, but styaff will direct attendees to the correct room. Visitors always welcome. If you don't attend regularly, check the programme for supplies. Always bring needles, hooks and yarn, which should be smooth and light coloured unless stated otherwise.
Contact: Sheila Ryle,
44 Webster Close, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 4NW •
Tel: 01628 628096 •
Email
Sheffield Area
– 2-4pm at Central United Reformed Church, Chapel Walk, Sheffield • 07850 551739
South Devon
– Meetings 10am to 4pm, subs are £2; please bring a packed lunch
Surrey
– Meetings on the 4th Wednesday of the month (except December) at Victoria Hall, Ash Hill Road, Ash, Near Aldershot, GU12 5DA, 10.30am to 3pm. Charge £2 (also covers rent), tea/coffee provided, bring own lunch. We are a friendly group, current members ages 30 - 90 all abilities. Visitors welcome. Bring needles/yarn and current project. Tuition available with occasional group workshops.
Contact: Janine Rees • 01252 852038 •
email
Tilton-on-the-Hill
– meets last Wednesday of the month, 12.30pm for 1-4pm (unless otherwise indicated) at The Village Hall, Tilton on the Hill, Leicestershire. Bring packed lunch
Tyne & Wear
www.communigate.co.uk/ne/knitandcrochet
Wiltshire
– 'Knit and Nibble' meetings in Chiseldon, near Swindon • Please note change: from June meetings are on weekday evenings – dates set month on month, so please telephone/email to check when the next meeting will be and, as before, ring/email beforehand for directions to venue • Please bring some knitting or crochet; drinks available. £2.50 per session • Non-members welcome and any level of expertise. If you are new to the crafts please bring medium-sized needles and plain wool, if you can, and we will help you learn – we're a friendly group of knitters and crocheters who are happy to share knowledge and enjoy discovering new aspects of their crafts
Contact: Anthea Winterburn • Tel: 01793 740325 •
Email
Do you live in the North Cotswolds area?
There seems to be a large gap with no knitting/crochet group for South Warwickshire, North Oxfordshire or North-east Gloucerstershire. If you would like to be invloved setting up a local group, please contact Ann Bartlett, Shipston-on-Stour by
email
Other Groups and Activities
• Aylesford Knitting Group: meets Tuesdays (during term time) from 6pm to 7.30pm at The Studio, Aylesford Commuinty Centre, Forstal Road, Aylesford, Kent ME20 7AU. Everyone welcome. Please feel free to drop in any Tuesday. We like to have a chat and a good laugh whilst getting on with our knitting. If you can't knit I will teach you, but if you can, come and share with us your projects and I will help you improve your techniques. Refreshments available. Ample free parking on site • Charge is currently £5 per week to cover the cost of the room rental, but I hope to reduce this as the size of the group grows • Group Organiser/Tutor: Sue Ricketts 01622 792710 or email
• Bethnal Green Knitting Club: meets every other Monday in The Gallery Café, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PL, from 5pm until the café closes at 8pm, with the option of continuing in a local pub afterwards. All ages and abilities welcome. If you’d like to learn to knit, there will be more experienced knitters on hand to teach you the basics. Our group is a good mixture between complete beginners and knitting masters! If you are a complete beginner, bring some needles and some yarn and we’ll help you get started. We’ll also bring some books and some simple patterns that you might like to try. The café serves delicious tea, coffee and homemade cakes, and is child friendly too • Contact: Siobhan 07828 647420 or email • www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk
• Brent Adult & Community Education Services (BACES), Carlton Centre, Carlton Vale, London NW6 5RTA: Various courses in Crochet, Knitting, Felting Dyeing, Embroidery and Beaded Jewellery • Tel: 020 7644 9460 • www.nezumiworld.com • nezumi@nezumiworld.com
• Buckden, Cambridgeshire: Knitting UK are planning to hold courses and are asking for course suggestions • They may be contacted on 01480 819397 or info@knittinguk.com
• Cast-Off Knitting Club: meetings www.castoff.info/meetings.asp
• Cast-On! Knitting Group: meet the last Wednesday of every month, 7-9.30pm, at The Horse and Jockey, Faringdon Road, Stanford in the Vale, Oxfordshire. We're an informal and friendly knitting (and crochet) group. All are welcome. Bring along a current project, start a new one or ask us to show you how! • Contact: Ruth Chester – 07980 439 587 or caston@thelittleknittingcompany.co.uk • More info: www.thelittleknittingcompany.co.uk
- • City & Guilds Course:
- www.distanceknitting.com
- www.knitdesignonline.com
Craft Club – KNIT 1: PASS IT ON!: a national campaign for craft in schools by The Crafts Council in collaboration with the UK Hand Knitting Association • More info
• Crochet Club, Leeds: meets 1st Thursday every month, 6.30-9.pm, at Fabrication – home of crafty things, 11 Crown Court Leeds LS2 7DG. There seems to be lots of knitting clubs around these days but what about those of us who want to crochet? Well, we have the answer. Come along to Crochet Club and bring your projects, wool, cake, gossip and tea. If you knit, macramé, lace make etc you are also welcome • Cost £6 inc refreshments and cake – you will need to pre-book so we have an idea of numbers • Contact: 0113 243 9140 • More info (and booking form) www.fabric-ation.co.uk
• Crochet Courses: at South Nottingham College • 20 week starting 23/09/09 from 18.30 to 21.30 • 15 week starting 02/09/09 from 14.00 to 18.00 • 10 week starting 24/09/09 from 18.00 to 20.00 • Tel: 0115 914 6464
• Day schools to improve your hand knitting skills in St Ives, Cambridgeshire • Tel: 01480 795717 • www.aclearning.org.uk
• Debbie Abrahams Workshops
www.da-handknits.demon.co.uk
• FECK (Friday Evening City Knitters): meets every Friday evening from 5pm in Manchester at Caffè Nero on Market Street (next to Primark). All knitters and crocheters welcome! • Contact:
• Get Knitted: hold many workshops in Brislington, Bristol • www.getknitted.com
• Guild of Machine Knitters: course listing at www.guild-mach-knit.org.uk/courses.htm
• Heike Gittins Courses and Workshops: Heike is a Guild member and Rowan Design Consultant • www.voirrey.com ( Tel: 0151 3423514) •
www.celticove.com (Tel: 01244 389310)
• Interknit Café (Farnham, Surrey) runs workshops • www.interknitcafe.uk.com
• Keep & Share: learn machine and hand knitting in a relaxed and creative environment with award-winning knitwear label 'Keep & Share', Lugwardine, Hereford • All one-day courses are £60, weekend courses £140 • More info at www.creativebreaks.co.uk • To book or enquire, contact Amy 01432 851162 or courses@keepandshare.co.uk
• Knit a Square Circle – meets every Tuesday, 10-11am, at Ace Centre (next to Border Ice Rink), Kelso, in the Scottish Borders. Our primary aim is to knit 8" squares for child aids victims in South Africa to be made into blankets. Just bring along some DK Wool and some 4mm needles. But we can supply these if needed. All knitters and crocheters welcome whatever your ability. If you are unable to make the weekly meeting you are still more than welcome to still knit for us • Cost £1 • Contact:
• www.knitasquare.com
• Knit Design Online – City & Guilds Hand Knit Textiles distance learning courses with Loraine McClean • www.knitdesignonline.com • email
• 'A knitting and lunch experience' – Knitting Classes for Autumn 2010
at The Plough, Normanton on the Wolds, Nottingham NG12 5NN
with local knitting designer and author, Chrissie Day
£45.00 per person per class – includes beautiful restaurant lunch and all day tea/coffee discount for more than 1 class booked • For full dates and details and to enrol, contact Chrissie Day:
or phone 07973790008
• Krazy Knitters of North Norfolk: meet every Monday morning, 9.30-11.30am, at The Lawns Hotel, Station Road, Holt, Norfolk. Parking is available behind the hotel • We meet in the comfortable hotel lounge and all levels of knitters are welcome. Advice and guidance is available if required, as well as pattern swaps, and group visits to knitting shows etc. We have breakfast at the hotel every couple of months and also afternoon tea on the coast four times a year. Our ages range from 40s to 80s. All knitters are very welcome.There is no charge for attending and refreshments are available at a nominal charge. We hope to welcome you soon • Contacts: Pam on 01263 825912 or email • Nadia on 01263 862018
• Missenden Abbey: Knitting and crochet courses • Tel: 01296 383582 •
• Needles and Hooks: a group run by Rowan Yarns Design Consultant, Heike Gittins • meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month at Nelson's Cafe in Ruthin • Contact Heike by email or phone 07876508344
• Nottingham: Knitting and crochets summer schools, 2 day courses • The Textile Workshop, 678, Mansfield Road, Sherwood, Nottingham • Tel: 0115 9603337 •
www.thetextileworkshop.co.uk
• Park Lane College Knitting & Crochet Courses
More info:
c.lelliott@parklanecoll.ac.uk • www.arca.uk.net/missendenabbey
• Rowan Weekend Workshops: cost £75 for two days' tuition, refreshments and buffet lunch • Call 01484 681881 or visit www.knitrowan.com
• Sale (South Manchester) Knit 'n' Natter Group • We meet at the King's Ransom pub, opposite Sale metrolink station, with easy access by tram or by bus to Sale Town Centre. Plenty of free parking to rear of pub. Members and non-members of all abilities very welcome. No charge, just turn up and look for knitters nattering! • 1st Monday of the month, 6-9pm • Contact: Debbie Tomkies • Tel 0161 973 7390 • email
• Stitch & Creative Craft Shows • www.sccshows.co.uk
• Stitch & Kvetch Meet at the Roebuck, Pond Street, London NW3 at 8pm some evenings • More info
• Stitch Knit & Natter Meet every Thurdsay (apart from 28th May), 2-4pm, at The Terrace Room, Joseph Whitworth Centre, Dale Road, Darley Dale, Matlock • We are a happy, friendly group of like-minded folk who enjoy all forms of stitching, knitting, crochet and natter. The cost is £1.50 per meeting per person; refreshments are available and anyone who may be interested would be very welcome. No need to make prior contact but it may be advisable as alterations are presently ongoing at the centre and there may be a room change to be advised of • Contact: Marilyn Swannell • Tel: 01629 733246 •
email
• St Xavier's Sixth Form College – Community Education, London runs Special Interest and Creative Arts 10 week evening courses in Knitting and Crochet several times a year • More info
• The Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, North Yorkshire has an exhibition of work by Ruth Lee, who will be running some workshops • Details from Dales Countryside Museum. Tel: 01969 666210
• 'United in Knitting' (Worcester) meet on most Saturdays from 11-1pm at the Pump House Environment Centre, toward the rear of Gheluvelt Park, Waterworks Road, Barbourne. We welcome most crafters, whether they are just enthusiastic, beginners or pros • If you're interested, contact Dawn Lewis at unitedinknitting@hotmail.co.uk
• Weekly Crochet Class at Moore, Nr Warrington, Cheshire, on Thursdays, 10.30am-12.30pm. Mixed ability covering all types of crochet. Pay as you learn in a friendly village hall. Free refreshments. Tutor: Judy Jones • email
• Weekly Crochet Class and 2-day Crochet Courses, at The Textile Workshop, 678, Mansfield Road, Sherwood, Nottingham, under the aegis of South Notts College • Tutor: Margaret O’Mara. Crochet thread 2-day class 28 Jul & 4 Aug, 15-week class 14:00-18:00 starting 1 Sep and 20-week course 18:30-21:30 starting 23 Sep • Tel: 0115 9603337
• West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0QZ • Tel: 01243 811301 or 0844 4994408 • short.courses@westdean.org.uk • www.westdean.org.uk
• Yarn & Thread, an informal craft and social group, where we bring our own work, sometimes try something new, help and guide each other, etc, etc … , at St John Ambulance Hall, Station Road, Manningtree, Essex • first Tuesday in each month, 2-4pm • Contact by email
• Yarn Classes in Ireland with Irene Lundgaard • Contact and more info: email • Mobile: 085 769 1854 • yarnclasses.com