2008 Programme

with Mary Graham and Kate Pullen. Learn how to use basic knitting and crochet skills to work with wire. To explore techniques of creating jewelry and small 3D items

with Alison Daykin and Jane Deane. This is planned to free you of the fear of sketchbook design. There are no wrongs, just different ways of doing things, no artistic skill required, just the willingness to try the exercises.

with Rachel Hardy. Learn how to make a basic lucet cord then move onto variations using more colours, twists, picots and beads. End with advanced ideas using double lucet and make the connection to spool knitting and knifty knitters..

with Sylvia Glenister. For complete beginners the workshop will cover what to consider before you even go near a loom, winding a warp, dressing the loom, setts, yarn counts and simple variations on plain weave and twills.

with Jane Deane and Amanda Hannaford. Fancy spinning milk? This workshop will show you how and will also cover other new and exotic fibres. We’ll learn about how they are produced, their history, what can be produced from them and how to spin them and their blends.

A team of Online Guild dyers will lead you through a challenge to prepare and dye cellulose fibres, yarn or fabric of choice, whether familiar ones such as cotton or linen or more unusual ones such as we encountered amongst the whacky fibres. We will discover how well our fibres respond to our chosen methods of preparation and our choice of dyes. .

A time of evaluation for the Online Guild. This week features an open discussion in which all members are encouraged to participate.

A free month with no scheduled workshop or programme offers time to catch up on Guild projects and just chat.

An Online Guild team of spinners and dyers will teach flat felt making and embellishments; 3 dimensional felt to make hats and bags; needlefelting and lastly complex 3 dimensional felting using foam shapes.

with Alison Daykin. Spinners will be encouraged to produce lively and exciting yarns by blending basic colours. It can be adapted by knitters, crocheters and weavers who do not want to spin the yarns but use mixes of coloured yarns instead..

with Karen Madigan. For beginners and intermediate weavers. We will learn how to design and tie the warp; to paint and dye the warp; to thread the loom and weave a warp faced fabric and to rethread the loom for a turned twill or plain weave.

with Francine Denot. This year the exchange theme will be a table decoration. Using any fibre related technique you will create a table decoration and send it to your exchange partner and receive a decoration in return from another member. The ideal opportunity to meet new friends and share our love for all things fibre in this festive month..