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Welcome to the Bath Knitting & Crochet Guild newsletter...
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We hope you're feeling relaxed after the bank holiday weekend.
In this month's newsletter we have details of our May online session and the South West Regional Day in June.
We hope you can join us at one of these events!
Image courtesy of Fashion Museum Bath
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May meeting
Our next meeting will be online, as we alternate between in-person and online events. We hope you'll join us.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 841 5569 8004
Passcode: 640029
Free to attend
Saturday 14 May, 10am to midday
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South West Regional Day, Saturday 11 June
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The Regional Day will be held at the Salvation Army Citadel in Bath, 10am-4pm, and will coincide with World Wide Knit in Public Day.
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Members £10, non-members £15. You can find out more about being a member of the Knitting & Crochet Guild and how to join here.
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Knitting & Crochet Guild news...
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Volunteer for the Guild
We're always in need of new volunteers to help run the Guild. We are currently urgently looking for:
- a volunteer with experience in magazine design and layout using InDesign to join the Slipknot team,
- an assistant membership secretary, and
- an assistant treasurer.
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If you are able to help with any of these roles or would like to find out more, please email chair@kcguild.org.uk.
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The Fine Art Textiles Award is your chance to win £5,000 and to have your work shortlisted for a touring exhibition shown at The Festival of Quilts and The Knitting & Stitching Shows in London and Harrogate.
If you have a piece considered as fine art and made within the last two years, make sure you enter by 6 June. Find out more >>
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Book pre-order and launch party
Bath-based designer Aleks Byrd's latest book, Traditions Revisited: Modern Estonian Knitting, is available for pre-order!
This long-awaited book is an introduction to Estonian knitting, a culture rich in techniques, distinguished embellishment and regional variations.
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Carmen and the team at A Yarn Story are hosting the official book launch party for Aleks! In addition to being able to pick up a copy of the book and having it signed by Aleks, they'll have the full Trunk Show available to browse Oh, plus bubbles and nibbles! Buy tickets >>
What: Traditions Revisited by Aleks Byrd book launch
When: Saturday 28 May, 4-8pm
Where: St. Michael's church, Walcot Street, Bath
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Some of our long standing members may remember Aleks kindly led a session for us in May 2018 on mixing colours for Fair Isle, based on another one of her books Colour & Knit, Mittens.
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The Wool Library
The Wool Library is a new type of radical wool collective, enabling the sourcing and creation of fully-traceable yarn and knitwear with breed specific British wool.
This kickstarter project will create breed-specific fully traceable British wool yarns.
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Empowering farmers, working with designers and consumers to celebrate wool to help regenerate the wool industry for the 21st century. Find out more >>
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Aleks Byrd book launch party
Join Carmen and the team at A Yarn Story for the official book launch party for Aleks' latest book, Traditions Revisited. In addition to being able to pick up a copy of the book and having it signed by Aleks, they'll have the full Trunk Show available to browse Oh, plus bubbles and nibbles! Buy tickets >>
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What: Traditions Revisited by Aleks Byrd book launch
When: Saturday 28 May, 4-8pm
Where: St. Michael's church, Walcot Street, Bath
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thread... a festival of textiles
Join textile enthusiasts for a sociable and inspiring day out on 11 June.
Learn from the experts, try new techniques and enjoy a varied programme of workshops for all. Exhibitors include textile producers, yarn purveyors, textile artists and makers. Find out more >>
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Bristol-based knitwear designer and natural yarn dyer Ria Burns will be teaching at thread this year.
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A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution
Later this month, in support of Fashion Revolution, garden designer Lottie Delamain will create the first-ever textile garden at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show. Inspired by the fundamental role of plants in fashion – as dyes, fibres, floral motifs and botanical folklore – Lottie will create a textile-inspired garden solely featuring plants that can be used to make or dye our clothes. This unique space will connect the dots between what we can grow and what we wear.
The garden will be exhibited at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, taking place from 24-28 May. Afterwards, the garden will be relocated to Headington School in Oxford where Kate Turnbull, Head of Fashion and Textiles Design, has developed a new syllabus which includes the study of plants used for textiles dyes and fibres, along with their propagation and use. The garden will be reimagined in two parts – as a working dye garden for the Textile Design students, and as a Colour Wheel garden, designed to inspire students across the school about the myriad roles plants play in our lives.
A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution will be part of the new ‘All About Plants’ category alongside several other gardens, supported by Project Giving Back. Find out more >>
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Feedback
If you have any feedback on the Bath Knitting & Crochet Guild, items you'd like to see included in the newsletter or topics for our events, please get in touch by email. We'd love to hear from you!
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