Exhibitors/sellers, artists & experts

Anne Sercombe * Belinda Harris-Reid Designs * Caprafiba (Marjorie Jarvis) * Caroline Smith * CazzCraft (Christina Konrath) * Devon Fine Fibres (Lesley Prior) * Doreen Finlay-Davies (MD of the British School of Knitting) * Ella's Knitting (Ruth Morris) * Emily Angus, Fiddle Sticks Devon (Barbara Brook) * Heavenly Yarns (Jane Stavert) * Helen King (Sock-Making Machines) * Hemp Fabric UK (Samantha Pickering) * Irwin Godfrey * Knit one Weave one (Jo McIntosh) * The Wool Sanctuary (Suzie Johnson) * Village Yarns (Jane Prince & Pamela Brewer) * Woolcake (Debbie Hillyerd) * Sylvia Llecha (L'ugly Design) * Ewa Shephard & Sharon Jane (5 Moon Yarns) * Bev Beattie Knitting4fun * Lindsey Skinner (Hall for Cornwall) * Juliet Brown (Artists Palette Yarns) * Ruth Strickley: The Little Wool Company * Philomena Wynne (3d artist) & Angela Wickenden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twisting Yarns - Writing Workshop

Facilitated/performed by Nell Turner and Rachel Vowles

 

Notes/words were pinned to a board.

 

• Knitting is FUN! - Kelly

• My Mum knite's (knits) me clols (clothes) - Kimberley

• I enjoy knitting because it helps me to relax.

• As women we rip, weave, knit and start again. Our life is a woven cloth, a tapestry of colour mistakes, roads leading to joy!

• She had Nits and Pearls in her Woolly Hair!

• Multi-cultural Knitting ROCKS. Shared Skills, Shared Lives...

• My stepmother used to knit and crochet when seeing clients as a psycho-analyst! The clients found it relaxing!

• I love (hearts) knitting (smiley faces)

• Today I learnt how to purl and how to cast on - very fun! - Hannah

• Knitting my scarf is soo fun!

• I sleep better when I knit in the evenings - Manda

• I learnt more new knitting techniques knitting an origami octopus in a couple of hours than I had learnt in my entire knitting life.

• You can make money out of selling cakes! (smiley face)

• Knitting is GOOD for YOU! - Heavenly Yarns Rocks

• I go to Heavenly Yarns on a weds ever - sit & knit - so much fun and made new chums - KD x

• Already a really good forum for networking with other knitters from Devon !!

• I knit. Do you? Would you like to knit more? When?

• Very good - and I hope you have more - but maybe be better to put the prices down - but lovely all the same.

• Knitting helped me to stop smoking - Becky (Exeter)

• Knitting is my meditation! (smiley) - Zion x

• My mum is great - she is wooly good! - Evie

• Knitting is a lot of fun - Helen

• Knitting shows me that I am capable of facing any challenge.

• Relacs (Relax) - when i KNIT and then I sleep better.

 

Masterclasses

• How to knit - Ruth Morris

• Knitting Design Workshop -

  Doreen Finlay-Davies

• Where do we go from here?  - Jennifer Clark

• Flower Corsage - for Knitting4Fun

 

 

 

8' hand and machine knitted and constructed clown designed by Doreen Finlay-Davies MA RCA