You can Knit With Us (YKWU) with Emma Crabtree

YKWU (You Can Knit With Us) is Colèchi’s very own knitting club that started as a way to encourage people take part in the art of producing fashion through knitting; and to change generic preconceived ideas of who knits.

YKWU collaborates with knitwear designers, yarn producers and educators to allow an explorative reconnection with traditional clothes making.

Sessions are held on the last Sunday of each month at The Lab E20 in Stratford, East London.

We're joined by Emma Crabtree for this session. Emma is a knitter, artist and book-maker based in London. She is the founder, editor and designer of DIY magazine AYFP (A Yarn & Fibre Publication), Issue 2 of which is due out this summer.

Her practical and research-led interest in textiles and craft feeds into her wider bookmaking practice. She knits almost every day and her latest knitting achievement is finishing her long-wished-for Dennis the Menace jumper:

Emma is also interested in history, and will teach a pattern that replicates a knitted woolen pouch found with the Gunnister man, who died in 1690 and later discovered on the Shetland Island.

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