April 26th 2025 found a happy handful of knitters of varying competences learning how to manage clever finishing touches to our knitted pieces, all thanks to Judith's extensive expertise (as a WI judge). We mastered mattress stitch in two ways, and knitting on a pocket as an afterthought, amongst discovering other great tips. Now we... Continue Reading →
September 2024 Guild members were treated to a day of learning Mosaic (or slip stitch) knitting techniques run by our own Judith Edwards. We were given the opportunity to learn at least 14 different complex and fascinating patterns expertly presented and tutored by Judith. The day was unusually quiet (for us!) as members concentrated hard... Continue Reading →
March 2024, it's not all spinning, weaving or dyeing! Cecilia and Graham Hewitt came along to Mungrisdale to pass on their considerable mending skills to Guild members. What a joy to learn how to darn our beautiful but worn woolly items giving them new leases of life.
The wonderfully talented Jane came along on Saturday 17th June 2023 to show Guild workshopppers how to create a fantastic Herdwick Sheep picture. Helpfully everyone had an outline taken from a beautiful photo of the Herdy predrawn onto hessian and from the photo each Guild member worked with various fibres and techniques to reproduce the... Continue Reading →
Saturday 16th June 2018, at Mungrisdale Village Hall was once again a hive of activity as we were shown how to colour-blend on a drum-carder. Visiting tutor Freyalyn Close-Hainsworth travelled from West Yorkshire to demonstrate another of her many fibre skills – this time blending wool and other fibres on a drum-carder to produce colourful,... Continue Reading →
March 2018 Acquiring a new skill in a single day is always a steep learning curve, and a recent workshop at Mungrisdale Village Hall recently, initially seemed every bit as difficult as scaling the steep slopes of Blencathra, close by! Carole Dickens, an active member of Eden Valley Guild of Spinners, Weavers & Dyers, learnt... Continue Reading →
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