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Groups, Guilds and Organisations
There are
many groups organised by knitters themselves all over the country. It
is an opportunity to meet, knit, share techniques, share yarn, and patterns
as well as gossip!
The British Knitting and Crochet Guild hold monthly meetings for experienced
and new knitters alike. To
find out about more Guilds Click here!
Liverpool
Stitch 'n Bitch Liverpool
When: Every Tuesday between 5pm and 8pm.
Where: At Urban Coffee, 349 Smithdown Road, Liverpool
'Knit Flicks Up North'
Date: Saturday 14th May 2005
Time: 12 noon,
Place:
FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool (city
centre)
Bring your knitting and watch Woody Allen's new film Melinda and
Melinda.
Tea and coffee will be served in the cinema prior to the event.
This is a private event, so tickets @ £5.50 each
For more information please contact Angie or visit the website
Bath
Stitch'n'Bitch in Bath
Come along and knit (bring sewing too) beginners, experts and enthusiasts help available.
ALL WELCOME bring cakes, tea/coffee provided
When: 2nd and 4th Sunday of the Month 2pm to 6pm
starting 8th May
Where: Widcome Studios, The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place,
off Upper Bristol Road (opposite Victoria Park Allotments) Bath
For further information contact Wendy
Cambridgeshire
April 'Knit
Togethers':
Saturday 9 April, 2-4pm, Grads Cafe, Top Floor, University
Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge
Monday 18 April, 7-9pm, The Eagle, Bene't St, Cambridge
Please pass these dates on to any knitting friends, and any internet knitting
groups you belong to in the Cambridge area
Ideas for new venues?
With the warmer weather on its way suggestions are welcomed
for new meeting venues (Grads cafe can get very warm!). And
does anyone fancy an awayday to Bury St Edmunds?
Contact: Rosie
Other knitting meetings
in Cambridge in April:
"Knit One, Give One" starts again on 7 April, 2-4pm, Fare Shares Cafe,
Emmanuel United Reformed Church (near Fitzwilliam Museum)
"Rosie in Stitches" (knitters fundraising for the Friends of the Rosie
Maternity Hospital) are having a knitting bee in Granchester on 27 April (daytime):
if you'd like details let me know, and I'll forward your name on to Avril.
Contact:
Rosie
Kent
Buzy Fingers
Monthly
meeting on the 1st Saturday of every month
Time: 12-4 pm
Place: Belvedere Pop-in-Parlour,
Adjacent to Belvedere Library
Woolwich Road,
Upper Belvedere,
Kent.
DA17 5EQ
We are
a friendly group of women who share our hobbies surrounding yarn.
We all knit, crochet and teach each other new and great things.
For further details
contact Buzy Fingers
Clapham,
South London.
We are a friendly group of knitters based in South
London. We meet on the second Tuesday of the month at
the Bread and Roses pub, Clapham Manor street.
Directions are found on link above. We meet at 7.30pm
onwards and have the sofas by the front entrance
reserved. Our next meeting is 12th April
All are welcome at our meetings.
For further details contact Helen
London:
Westender Stitch'n'Bitch
Every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month
7.30pm to 9.30(ish) - Ha
Ha Bar (it used to be Yates, near Ealing Green)
Mattock Lane, Ealing W5 5BG
Click on to Streetmap for
a good map to get you there !
Or, contact Kate if
you want to get in touch beforehand
Central London morning
knits: meets every Tuesday morning.
time: 10am-12pm
venue: Ray's Jazz cafe, 1st floor Foyles bookstore
address: 113-119 Charing Cross Rd, London, WC2H 0EB
tube: Tottenham Court Rd.
For further information contact: www.knitchicks.co.uk
Surrey/N, Hants
We have a very friendly group of knitters who meet on Surrey/N, Hants border as follows. Visitors & new members welcome.Date: 4th Wednesday each month Time: 10.30 - 3.00pm Where: Victoria Halls, Ash Hill Road, Ash, Surrey Cost: £2 includes tea/coffee - bring your own lunch Contact: Janine map Bring work in progress + spare needles & yarn to learn any new techniques.
East
Sussex
Date: every Monday time: from 8pm venue: Hobgoblin pub
location: 31 York Place, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4GU more
info: threadbare
Hertfordshire
Date: Every Monday Time: From 6.30pm Venue: The Pennsylvanian
Address: 115/117 High Street, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire,
WD3 1AM Tube: Rickmansworth (Metropolitan) or Chiltern Line
(from Marylebone) Contact: Sarah
Penrith Cumbria
Cecilia
Hewett has started a group in the Bluebell Bookshop/cafe, in
Penrith Cumbria
At the moment they are knitting squares for blankets for charities.
Celia is also hoping to start a group in North Cumbria
For
further information contact Cecilia
North
Cheshire, South Wirral and NE Wales
A newly formed knitting group meeting monthly would welcome more participants from North Cheshire, South Wirral and NE Wales. All ages welcome (current membership aged 1 year to 70 years). We knit, share woolly thoughts, resources and ideas and help one another with all those tricky techniques.
Next meeting on Monday, March 7th at 2 p.m. to whenever, at the Wheatsheaf Inn, Heath Road, Upton, Chester.
For more information / directions contact Bron Robinson
New Knitwits Group near Cardiff
A call has come from Glamorgan for new members to a group who meet every Tuesday at 7.30 at the day centre of the Marie Curie Hospice, Holme Tower, Bridgeman Road, Penarth, £1 is collected each week from members, which goes to the hospice - "come along and join us, we are a lively group, old and new knitters welcome"
For further information
please contact
Kathleen
Young has just opened a yarn shop in Troon,
South Ayrshire and
is very keen to promote handknitting in the area.
She
runs classes at the shop every Thursday night from 7 pm (cost £5)
covering all the basics of learning to knit to advanced techniques.
To find out more contact Kathleen
KNITFLICKS : Knitting at the cinema
The Ritzy Cinema in Brixton is holding the world’s fourth film screening dedicated to knitters
Date: Saturday 19 March 2005 time: 12.30pm venue: Ritzy Cinema location: Coldharbour Lane, Brixton contact: pauline Film:The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Directions: exit Brixton tube, turn left - cinema is two minutes walk, located at the first set of lights Tickets £5/£4 concession (no need to book)
Forget the popcorn or holding a loved one’s hand, the latest must-have accessory for cinemagoers is a pair of knitting needles!
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Knitters the world over are talking about ‘knitflicks’
The Gothamist wrote:
I recently went to the movies when a woman sitting one seat away took out her knitting. I don’t think I would have had such a problem, if she hadn’t kept raising her arm to pull the yarn! I wanted to say something, but felt like I was on uncertain ground... she wasn’t being noisy, just pesty.
Since the first Knitflicks in November, the organisers have been contacted by knitters in New York and Chicago, eager to start up their own knitters-only film screening. “London knitters have the right idea,” said Brenda (of stitchnbitch.org) and hopefully Chicago knitters will be following their lead shortly”.
But why do it?
“I knit in front of the telly”, states Pauline Wall (of knitchikcs.co.uk), “why wouldn’t I want to knit at the cinema? At knitflicks I know I won’t be annoying anyone, PLUS I get to see what I’m doing”.
Management at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton leave the light turned up for the knitters, and provide tea and coffee free afterward so the knitters can discuss their latest projects and compare ideas.
Why knitting?
“It’s not about fads or celebrities”, Tracey Briones (avid knitter) is adamant, “everyone is claiming that Russell Crowe knits – which is just not true!” It seems that the now-infamous photograph of the actor was set up for a cinema magazine years ago. “And just because an actor does something doesn’t mean I’m jumping on a bandwagon or following them blindly. Let’s face it – it’s a craft, a hobby”.
Still, it seems that the link between Hollywood and knitting works well!
For more information please contact:
Picturehouse Cinemas are the operators of the UK’s largest group of independent cinemas with 20 Picturehouse venues including many of the countries favourite cinemas
Knitchicks is a directory of knitting events for the UK’s knitting community. It contains information on regular meetings throughout the UK.
LINKS:
http://www.knitchicks.co.uk
http://acechick.typepad.com/BBC.mov
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4028619.stm
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/12/21/movie_theater_annoyances.php
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0400lambeth/tm_objectid=14879295&method=full&siteid=50100&headline=lights--camera-knitting-action-name_page.html
Alison Toni says:
A group
of us have started a knitting group in Edinburgh - you can
find details here http://uk.geocities.com/tomtomandnico/cityknitty.html
Ilford
There
is an exhibition of childrens knitted garments 1920's - 1950's entitled "Well
Covered" at Ilford
Central Library until the end of November.
The exhibitor, Mrs Widmark, a
member of the Redbridge Arts Council.
Susan
Briscoe, our
fastest crocheter has written in to give details of her local
knitting/crafts groups. Susan says of the Stitching and Knitting
Show at Alexandra Palace: " I
think it was a fun event - though a pity there were no UK crochet
challengers. Also,
where are the knitting MEN? It would be great to have
an event another year to find the UK's top knitting & crocheting
men - I am sure there are plenty out there. "
Gresford Near Wrexham
Gresford
Craft Group meets every Tuesday at Gresford Memorial Hall, Gresford,
near Wrexham. We have
2 meetings - the morning group runs from 10 - 12 noon and the evening
group from 7.30 to about 9.30 p.m. People usually sign up to one particular
session - the evening group has the younger membership. There are a mixture
of crafts but plenty of knitting & crochet (our current knitting
obsession is scarves in furry or novelty yarns). Our "policy" (non
official!) must be "I'll teach you how to make one!" If
you want to learn something new, there is sure to be another group member
willing to show you. We offer a friendly and relaxed envionment in a
lovely modern building with ample parking (though only a short walk from
the centre of the village and the bus stop for the No. 1 Chester - Wrexham
express service). Cost - £1 per meeting. Val
Shields and Sue Hill are our organisers. They arrange trips to
various UK stitching and quilting shows, so there's a full social calendar
of events. There's a chance to exhibit your work too, at the annual
craft group exhibition in June. There's no need to be shy - just
turn up and introduce yourself!
Calling all Birmingham knitters! If you're interested in meeting up at
a coffee shop in the City Centre (probably on a Saturday), contact Laura <stitchnbitch@hellokitty.com> .
(11/4/2004 5:29:15 PM)
knit together Date: Tuesday, 16 November Time: 7-9pm Venue:
The Eagle Address: 8 Benet St, Cambridge CB2 3QN We'll try
to be in the non-smoking room (right hand side as you come in through
the front entrance) Click here for map
Lynn
Cremona is
desperately trying to find other knitters in her area to meet
up with and possibly start a group. She lives 8 miles from Northampton
on the south Northants border with Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
so Luton, Bedford and Milton Keynes are within an hours drive.
Please
contact her via Lindsay
Winter
Tracy O'Brien holds regular knitting group meetings
at her shop TAJ
CRAFTS as
follows:
Alternate Thursday nights 6.30pm - 9.30pm.(From 30th September)
Alternate Wednesday afternoons 1.30pm - 4.30pm.(From October 6th)
Also
the first Tuesday evening in every month 6.30pm - 9.30pm
We meet in the shop TAJ
CRAFTS,
2 Wellesley Avenue,
Richings Park,
Iver, Bucks,
SL0 9AY
Tel: 01753 653900.
Bring your knitting and share tips, advice or ask for help!
£2 charge to cover refreshments and future speakers, etc
Scotland
Kate McLeod runs a knitting group in Glasgow and has managed to get a Millennium Award to help cover some of the costs. The first meeting is arranged for Saturday 20 March, which is good timing for the Creative Stitches show
The British Knitting and Crochet Guild hold monthly meetings for experienced
and new knitters alike. Please visit their website for more information.
If you meet regularly with other knitters please email me any details and I can put your details on the site.
Internet Groups
UKHandknitters a mailing list from other knitters to share tips and items
Knitting
Society at the University of Oxford Membership:
£5 per year
Enquiries: knitsoc@hotmail.com
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Date: saturday, 2 october Time: 12.00 - 3.00 or so Venue: kim by the sea cafe Address: old birley street, hulme (just opposite hulme community garden centre, very near the big moss side asda) directions: you can walk there from town or get on the 85/86/87 and get off when you see the garden centre (a couple of minutes after you've gone by the hulme arch bridge) get in touch if you need better directions! contact: jo there'll be some spare needles and wool. regular meetings are the third sunday of every month, this is an extra one! knitweararmy
Betsy
Greer sends us the following information
from her Castoff Newsletter
Cast-Off Stall
Coming soon... Cast Off stall to Broadway Market, exact date to be
confirmed. Upon other things, you will (hopefully) have the chance to
come
check out our mini-library of thrifted craft books, buy some American
kickarse craftiness as well as help support us as we attempt knitting
world domination one row at a time.Regular
Knitting Groups are
popping up around london. don't you know that stitch n' bitchin' is
where it's at?
Westender S'n'B
Every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month
7.30pm to 9.30(ish) - Ha
Ha Bar (it used to be Yates, near Ealing Green)
Mattock Lane, Ealing W5 5BG
Click on to Streetmap for
a good map to get you there !
Or, contact kate@giftedfilm.co.uk if
you want to get in touch beforehand.