04/05/2025
More information on the Northern Regional Day. Places are booking fast!
Northern Regional Day - 28th June 2025
Our Venue: The Watershed, 22 Bridge Street, Slaithwaite, HD7 5JN
We already have an amazing selection of workshops, thanks to those who have already committed to providing a session and we hope one or two more will be added before our programme is in its final form but here’s what will be on offer on the day and hope that you’ll be excited to join us.
Cost is £45/£30 for members of the Knitting& Crochet Guild
Email [email protected] to book your place
Arrival from 9.30am – tea and coffee
Then we’re ready for a packed day of talks, workshops, tours and stash enhancement!
We are pleased to welcome Kandy Diamond as our keynote speaker. Kandy is a designer, artist, and senior lecturer with over a decade of experience in machine knitting. She teaches across the BA knitwear and textiles programs at Nottingham Trent University. In 2006, she founded her label 'Knit and Destroy,' creating pieces that blur the lines between product and art, challenging cultural preconceptions by offering an alternative representation of knitting.
Kandy is also the author of "Discovering Machine Knitting," a comprehensive guide aimed at demystifying machine knitting for beginners and seasoned crafters alike.
Morning Activities
Workshops: -
Continental knitting with Marianne Hofstedt
Beginners 1 Colour Brioche with Sandra Nesbitt
Yoga informed stretches for crafters with Roz Brown
Tapestry Crochet with Helen Jordan (at the loft space)
In the Bobbin Room
Talk from Emma Townsend from Woolyknit famous for their coned yarn based at the Warth Mill in Diggle, then knit and natter and a chance to view the marketplace goodies!
Tour – An opportunity to visit the Guild’s collection, just around the corner at Britannia Mill
12.30 – Lunch – Marketplace
Afternoon Activities
Talk from Sarah Hill of the Hazeldene flock, hand crafted products from pedigree Jacobs and Dutch spotted sheep, based near Barnsley.
Workshops:-
Sanquhar Fingerless Mitts with Wendy Irvine
Shetland Lace – Have a go with Angharad Thomas
Embriodered knitting with Elizabeth Smith
Learn to Crochet with Frances Ayres (at the loft space)
In the Bobbin Room:
Marketplace
Craft your own stitch markers with Isobel Holland
Ingenious Inventions with Barbara Smith
Tour – Another opportunity to visit the Guild’s collection, just around the corner at Britannia Mill
5.30 Goodbyes and Close
