We welcome Jeanette Bell to our meeting on 11th March. She will be showing us how to produce a dainty flower arrangement in a small container such as a tea cup. So please join us for a natter & a laugh as well, at the Whitehouse at 7.30-don’t be late! Please bring a pretty cup & saucer or similar-we have a small number if you can’t find one -& if you have it some foliage from your garden-oh,- your own scissors will make things easier for you too! Jeanette will be bringing flowers for us, so there will be a small charge for those-members £3.00, visitors £5.00.

We meet on the 3rd Wednesday in the month
Venue: 1 Gresham Road, Hampton, TW12 3RB
Time: 7:30 ish

Join us to explore, make, chat, swap and swatch.
Learn a new knitting trick every month or just bring along your current project and sit and knit with like minded wool addicts!

March 19th
Let’s talk about socks!

April 16th
Knitted felt … more accurately called ‘fulling’ . You’ll need to bring yarn made from animal fibre – sheep, llama, alpaca. Synthetic fibres will not felt.

May 21st
Crochet … a natural partner to knitting. Start with creating a crochet edge to a knitted swatch. Learn to make a traditional ‘Granny Square’.

June 18th
Get creative with colour. Be inspired by art and nature to swatch some new colour combinations, and have a go at Fair Isle.

July 23rd
Learn to cable. Take a good look at some classic Aran designs.

Contact Kit kit.greenleaves@gmail.com Landline 0208 783 0440

Another very well attended & pretty noisy meeting!

This month, the white heat of technology burned brightly in Hampton when Kit, Jacqui & Chris initiated us into the secret (to most of us anyway) world of social media! It’s all so much easier when somebody who knows their stuff shows you & explains it all to you! Now we can hold our heads up in front of our grandchildren!

We had several laptops set up & some people brought their ipads & tablets, so there was no shortage of equipment. And no shortage of interest from our members & friends either. We looked at our own website & Jacqui explained what we could find on it how to make the most of it, then we watched presentations about some of the better known sites including Facebook, Twitter & Pinterest. We even purely by chance, came across our WI neighbours at Teddington tweeting to each other while we watched! Couldn’t have organised it better!

As usual, we had our raffle & we would like to thank Pauline for organising the refreshments & making some of her lovely cakes for us.