Join us on Sunday 10 August, from 1:30pm-3:30pm in the Strand Arcade for Scrappy Scarf knitting with Margaret Lewis. 

Maximum 10 participants - register by adding to cart and checking out, workshop is free but spots are limited so booking is essential!

Let nothing go to waste! Knit your own scrappy scarf so that those odds and ends of wool become something fabulously wearable. 

You can use the needles and wool provided or bring along your preferred needles (the scarf in the photo is worked on 4mm – 5mm needles) and any odds of wool you have. The scarf is worked just in knit stitch. If you don’t already know, you will learn how to increase and decrease stitches, work in knit stitch and how to join in yarn. At the end of the workshop, you can take away lengths of yarn to continue your project at your own pace.

Experience: beginner level, general knowledge of knitting is helpful. Children should be accompanied by an adult.

This workshop is part of the Yarntime for the Whole Whānau day, funded by the Waitematā Local Board.

About Margaret Lewis

Margaret is a contemporary textile artist using traditional crafting techniques (knitting, crochet, embroidery, macramé) with unexpected materials. Self-taught, her practice could be described as ‘making a silk-purse out of a sow’s ear’. Originally focusing on the design and creation of handcrafted fashion, her practice changed direction after many of her works and materials were destroyed in a fire in 2013. Since then she has focused on creating material culture through social practice, making works with and for communities.

Her works have been exhibited at the Waikato Museum, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Splore and ACL Festivals, as well as NZ Sculpture OnShore and Changing Lanes public art programming. She has spoken at the UK Conference ‘Making Futures’, CTANZ Fibre Connecting People Symposium and also the CCD Summit Aotearoa.