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Gaynor White

About Gaynor

Gaynor is a crochet-obsessed teacher and pattern designer from Wokingham in Berkshire.

She learned to knit and crochet as a child, trained and worked as a French teacher for over 10 years, and then picked up her hook again 10 years ago. Gaynor jokes that she is “lucky enough to call myself a full-time hooker…”

In 2012, Gaynor set up The Barkham Hookers crochet group with a few friends in her living room. They now run 4 group sessions a week as well as many regular private lessons with over 600 members on Facebook alone. You can find them on Facbook via The Barkham Hookers’ Charity Group, where many of their charity projects can be seen.

She is very proud of the fact that The Barkham Hookers raised over £60,000 for various national and international charities, £52,000 of that for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. Click here to watch Gaynor share a quick and easy method for crocheting a poppy.

Gaynor loves designing and making blankets, many of which can be found as free CALs (crochet-a-longs) on her blog: Confessions of a Barkham Hooker. During the pandemic, she designed the Coronavirus CAL, posting a new section daily then weekly with colourful pictures and detailed notes.

Signature Technique

Crochet Blankets incorporating a variety of patterns and colours

Top Tips

  • Crochet is very forgiving. Don’t be afraid to adjust or change the pattern to suit your needs or likes. And remember, if in doubt pull it out!
  • Use a larger hook to work a long foundation chain to avoid it curling up.
  • If you work quite loosely choose a slightly smaller hook than advised and a larger hook if you work tightly.
  • When working in rows do not forget to work into the last stitch – – which is probably the chain 2/3 made at the start of the previous row.
  • Use military buttons as the centre in poppies to add something special.
  • If you are working with several balls of yarn, chuck them on the floor and let gravity help you keep them untangled.

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De Vere Denham Quilting Retreat 8-9 Oct 2016

What a great time we had;  here are some pics of the girls at work in Sarah's class and what they were working on;  they all gone at least one top done!!!       and some lovely comments from delegates (who are now safely back home) I had a lovely weekend , thank you for organising it.Thank you too for the lovely goodie bag!I have sent my booking form and deposit of £50 today, for next year,2017, I wanted to say ‘thank you’ to you and all the team for a great weekend.  It was enjoyable to meet all the different women, to see their work and to spend concentrated, dedicated time on producing something lovely.  I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the weekend.  This was my first retreat and it was wonderful.   To just be able to do something you enjoy without any distractions was great I just  want to thank you and Maggi for a super relaxing weekend.

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Filming day at a Fluff-a-torium in Dorking

What a brilliant day we had - Matt Dave and I  - in Dorking with Gillian Harris in her shop Gilliangladrag at Fluff-a-torium in West Street.     Gillian is the queen of felting so we got to learn how she makes wet-felt;  adds some decorative needlefelting; learnt about the kits she sells     and then a great tour of the shop -so keep watching!

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