Workshops

 

Enjoy either a morning or a full day of knitting, crochet or felting with Manfield Crafts. Alternatively, book a one-to-one tutorial to hone your skills or to learn new ones.
 
 

Full Day Workshops

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Learn a new skill, hone an old one or try your hand at something completely unexpected with one of our all-day workshops.

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2012 Dates

 
8 Feb:   Debbie Abrahams

29 Mar:   Tips, Tricks & Techniques

26 Apr:   Knitted & Crochet Jewellry

24 May:   Colourwork – Fair Isle & Intarsia

28 Jun:  Knitted Embellishments

21 Jul:   Crochet with Jane Crowfoot

8 Aug:   Sock Workshop

15 Sep:   Another Way of Knitting – Backwards & Continental Knitting, Double-Sided Knitting, etc.

11 Oct:   Steeking: knitting garments in the round, cutting and securing them for wear

28 Nov:   Christmas knitting with Jane Crowfoot

6 Dec:   Christmas Knits

PLUS – Another opportunity to  join Debbie Abrahams during her regular September slot. Date to be confirmed.

 

All workshops cost £50, including working yarns and other material, lunch and refreshments throughout the day.

 
 

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Half-Day Workshops

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Celebrate the diary in style with many fun projects.

 

14 Feb:   St. Valentine’s Day Knits – Romance

15 Mar:   Mother’s Day – Something special for Mum

3 Apr:   Easter – Bunnies, eggs & cute little chicks

21 Apr:   St George’s Day – Dragons, knights & historical fun

5 Jun:   The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee  -  Wave the flag

20 Jun:   The Summer Solstice – Celebrating nature

27 Oct:   Halloween – witches & familiars

6 Nov:   Guy Fawke’s Night – warm knits

 

Workshops cost £20 per person, including refreshments and working yarns. Depending on the project, some workshops may incur a small charge for premium materials. 

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Tutorials

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Book a lesson with one of our experts and improve on your knitting or crochet skills. Alternatively, gather your friends, work colleagues or family and share a fun morning or afternoon learning tips and tricks of the trade. Pick any subject you want from the list below or contact Manfield Crafts for a more personalised workshop.
 

• Backwards knitting
• Beads
• Blending new yarns
• Blocking
• Bobbles
• Buttonholes
• Buttons, knitted
• Cables
• Casting off, various methods of and rules for
• Casting on, various methods of and rules for
• Casting on stitches at end of a row
• Changing yarn
• Charts, working from
• Circular needles, knitting with
• Continental knitting, learn how to do
• Decreasing
• Double pointed needles, knitting with
• Elastic cast off
• Embroidery on knitting
• Fair Isle
• Grafting
• I-Cords
• Increasing
• Intarsia
• Italian tubular cast on
• Jogless stripes in circular knitting
• Joining two yarns invisibly
• Kitchener stitch
• Knitting in the round
• Lace beginnings
• Ladders in circular knitting
• Left-sloping decrease
• Lengthening knitwear
• Magic Loop
• Mattress stitch
• Mitred knitting
• Mosaic colour work
• Patterns explained
• Picking up stitches
• Pockets, inset as garment is being worked
• Pockets, inset after garment is finished
• Provisional cast-on
• Ribbing, keeping it even
• Rescue lines
• Short-row shaping in garments
• Short-row sock heels
• Slipstitch colour work
• Stranded knitting
• Swiss darning
• Symmetry in side, sleeve and shoulder shaping
• Tension explained
• Three-needle cast off
• Thumbs in mittens and gloves
• Triangular shawl, starting off a
• Turkish cast-on
• Seamless toes and bag bottoms/bases
• Shortening knitwear
• Steeking
• Uneven knitting, solving
• Weaving in ends neatly
• Wrapping stitches
• Zig-zag hems, bands and edges

Prices start from £10* per person, including refreshments.

* Prices are calculated according to the subject of the workshop or the number in each party.

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