KNITTING PERFECTION
Helen was taught to knit at the age of 7 by her mother, and completed her City and Guild Creative Studies, Knitwear Design Part I, at Liverpool Community College.
She completed Part II in 2002, after commuting once a week for two years to Huddersfield Technical Studies. Whilst at Huddersfield she was sponsored and tutored by Rowan Yarns.
She has taught at Liverpool Community College, the Voirrey Embroidery Centre and at the Fibre and Clay Contemporary Craft Gallery and Knit Studio since 2007, where the workshops she teaches include: Learn to Knit, Professional Finishing Techniques, Aran and Cable, Entrelac, Lace Knitting, Sock Knitting and Fair Isle.
Helen's favourite types of knitting include Fair Isle, lace knitting, Shetland hapshawls, big needle knitting and modular knitting; she attended a week's workshop run by Shetland College on the Island of Yell.
She is attending the "In The Loop" conference on Shetland this September.
TEACHING TIMETABLE
West Cliffe Hotel, Blackpool Knitting Breaks, September 7th, 2010
Fibre and Clay: throughout 2010: throughout 2010
Warrington Craftworkers' Guild: a talk on knitting, Saturday July 16th, 2011
MAKE, DO & KNIT
Helen, together with Arbour House Publishing, brought Make, Do and Knit - a knitting and making fair - to Bluecoat School, Wavertree, Liverpool, over the weekend of March 27 and 28, 2010.
Updates, details of ticket sales and any other information could be gained by registering at info@makedoandknit.com.
For exhibitor enquiries Helen was contactable at helen@makedoandknit.com.
tel: (+44) 151 427 9773
