See What’s Coming Up in February 2019

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That month we met Fiona Goble, who is a knitter and prolific knitting book author. You can find interview with her on our website by clicking here. She told to Valerie about her life before knitting, her inspirations and techniques. Also, later in the month we got to meet and enjoy her knitted Amigurami pets. This video is available on our website too, just click here.

We continued our wander round the Living in the Middle Exhibition with Hilary Beattie. She was guiding us around this fascinating architecturally themed show. To find this video you can click here.

The Stitch Witch, Lynette Harris, shared with us the Japanese stitching technique of Sashiko on our Throwback Thursday video. You can find this video by clicking here.

Other workshops that month included:

• a lovely Doll’s House panel by textile designer and expert Janet Clare, to open just click here
• Valerie Nesbitt brought us a modern quilt block incorporating the flying geese design, to open just click here
• we had an excellent workshop with Carolyn Forster on the Quilt-as-you-go method of patchwork, to open just click here

There were also two more workshops that month of “Your First Sampler Quilt” series with Valerie. So, she covered putting the blocks together, adding the sashing and the borders. You can find video about sashing by clicking here and video about borders here.

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