IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT WOOL AND HOW TO KNIT A SCARF

Above: Copper wire, stitched tapa cloth. turtle-shell sticks.  

Come and have a play with both traditional and non-traditional materials in an environment where we can all bounce some ideas around. Believe me there is prize money to be won out there by entering national Exhibitions.
Maybe join up with someone else to work on a sculpture-knit....
or just enjoy the company, while you knock out the things you've always  loved to knit.

If YOU or your FRIENDS are interested, make a few enquiries have a bit of a look see, it might be a bit of fun.

If you've got something you have made, then bring it along to the group so we can have a show and grill about what you've been up to. 


ORGANISE a place to hold a WORKSHOP and find 7 others to come along and YOU get to do the workshop for FREE

WHERE IS IT THAT WE PLAN TO MEET?

You arrange it.... Could be your local KINDY ...TOWN HALL SIDE ROOM...Any CHEAP light and warm space.  Alternatively we could meet in your own homes if you have a big covered deck or lounge area.

Cost:$15 per person (plus travel costs of 20cents per.km from Auckland's Bombay or Drury off-ramp)

What do you get for That?: 3 hours tutoring, all the wool or tutoring resources you need to get you spinning and a raffle ticket to win something sweet to keep you using  those click-sticks....and it helps to cover my travel costs.

Minimum of 7 people (just cause I like the old Seasame Street 7 song)

B.Y.O. Knitting needles if you have them. They are pretty cheap from the  op-shops, any yarns, fresh ideas, knitting disasters you want to talk about....Get KEEN and bring along a cheap op-shop find that you want to replicate or pull apart you re-cycler you.

(A small selection of yarns will be made available to get you started for free if you want.)

COME AND HAVE SOME INPUT INTO HOW YOU WANT TO.....                        

• EITHER LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO KNIT
• LEARN HOW TO USE A SPINNING WHEEL SO YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN FUNKY WOOL
• SPIN WOOL THAT IS AWSOME QUALITY....AT A FRACTION OF THE COST OF SHOP STUFF
• GET INTO SOME SAFE GRAFFITTI KNITTING
• FIND OUT HOW TO GO ABOUT DESIGNING SOMETHING TO KNIT AND WEAR
• MAKE A KNITTED SCULPTURE FOR HANGING ON YOUR WALL

ARE YOU UP FOR IT???

This blog has been set up to encourage groups of people to get together for creative fun and experimentation with the click sticks. 

Here are some reasons you why might want to get together with other knitters, where ever you are

BECAUSE I WANT TO.....

• Plaster my mailbox/fence line with soft graffiti knits.
• Learn how to knit more than wiggly lines of garter stitch.
• Design knits that I like, and would love to wear, but that I can't afford to buy.
• Buy a fleece of wool, learn how to spin it, and knit my four kids a jersey each for less than 40 bucks.
• Meet other people who want to design, knit and assemble three dimensional fibre artworks so that that the artist within doesn't totally shrivel up and die.

SOCK FOR A POLE OR A TREE

This LENGTH of KNITTING is DESTINED for AN outdoors PLACEMENT.

It IS a SAMPLER that INCORPORATES the TWO basic STICHES of KNIT and PURL......

Join ME for A get together? iF YOU see THIS knitting on a pole OR tree- you wil KNOW their are Bandits about. Why not organise a class. Learn to be a SPINNER even?   Find out how to make your OWN super good QUALITY yarns on a Spinning Wheel.

Possibly YOU just WANT to FIND out IF you CAN even BE bothered BEING part OF a GANG of KNITTING bandits......... if so

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