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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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Quilt Retreat weekend at Midhurst, W.Sussex

House is full!  Teachers this weekend are Jennie Rayment, Valerie Nesbitt and Sarah Soward (from Pauline's Patchwork);   we know we are going to have a great time - lots of sewing, good company and good food. Sorry you missed it?! - well why not join us next year; the dates are 12-15 June 2015 and for a booking form just click here.

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National Patchwork Championships at Sandown 2014

Had a great time with lots of visitors and both Jennie and I enjoyed meeting so many of our viewers - thanks for taking the time to stop by. Also bumped into many of our contributors, but a couple of new people we will be following:  first Shirley Bloomfield who is an embroiderer with a new bok out Beyond the Applique Garden, which we will be featuring on the site as well as a delightful tablerunner - so keep an eye on the shop: and Nancy Adamek, who is passionate about paper piecing (!);   lovely work and a new supplier to the patchwork world: here is an idea from her stand (it's just 7" across)       and if you want to know more, and/or order paper pieces just visit her website: www.linapatchwork.com (we love to support home grown industries)

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