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About Stitch and Bitch London
Stitch and Bitch London are a London-based non-profit knitting group taking over the world one new knitter at a time like a radioactive Godzilla with sticks and string.
We’re a feisty but ultra-friendly group of all ages and from all walks of life, who basically get together all over London make fabulous things from sticks and string, help each other out of sticky knitting situations, and escape from the rat race and humdrum.
The group is run by the five Stitchettes: Lauren “Deadly Knitshade” O’Farrell, Joelle “Knitting Ninja” Finck, Marion “Bluestocking Stitcher” Crick, Emma-Lee “Purple Purler” Yarwood and Gertrude “Woolly Aunty Gerty” Woolsworthy. These four knitting damsels and one giant pink ball of yarn run the group, website, newsletter, and blog out of the goodness of their hearts, for no profit and for the love of the knit, in their spare time.
We have knitters from 16 years old to 600. We never turn a knitter or would-be knitter away. Any one is welcome: male, female, single, hitched, sweet, bitter, straight, fruity, smooth, fluffy, mild-mannered superhero, brazen supervillian, wallflower, party animal, singing detective or small dog – the more the merrier.
Our meetings happen all over central London once a week in cafes, pubs or parks. There is no set day, but we always meet from 6 PM on weekdays. We are always close to a station too, so we’re easy to get to and find.
Fortnightly email newsletters let you know when and where we are, two weeks in advance, as well as telling you what else the group is up to and digging up internet knitting gold from around the globe.
It’s all completely free.
We are quite a mixed bunch. Beginners, masters and a fair few in between. All you do is turn up at a meeting, sit down and knit (or crochet or embroider or anything crafty).
No other requirements at all. There is nothing to pay and no limits to who can join.
We also teach beginners for FREE if they turn up with some needles and yarn.
In fact we will teach anyone any knitting skill they want to know for nothing, and if we don’t know how then we’ll find out.
Join us and submit to the knit!
Learners: Bring yarn and needles Masters: Bring your stitch advice
Jill McGrady said
Met your group at Festival Hall last week. A very friendly bunch, hope to meet again some time. Am enjoying knitting squares for the SnB blanket, then hope to knit a Pudsey bear for Children in Need but finding it hard to get a pattern. Can anyone help me locate a pattern?
Regards, Jill
Deadly Knitshade said
Hi Jill
Glad you had fun at the Festival Hall. So much blue yarn!
There is a Pudsey pattern here: http://www.readicut.co.uk/product.asp?pf_id=RC6494
It’s £2 and the money goes to the charity as far as I can tell.
And there is a pack here with yarn:
http://www.abakhan-onlineshop.co.uk/acatalog/Pudsey_Bear_Yarn_Pack.html
jill mcgrady said
thanks for replying deadly knitshade. I got the pattern, knitted two and raffled them.
Linda said
I’m coming over from Italy for the WWKIP day event and Ryanair won’t let me bring needles on the airplane. I’ll be staying near Marble Arch, is All the Fun of the Fair very far from there? Any info will be appreciated. I’ll have all day Friday to purchase needles.
Looking forward to next weekend!
Deadly Knitshade said
You can get needles from either John Lewis (which is on the same road as Marble Arch station here:
John Lewis
Oxford Street
London W1A 1EX
Or All the Fun of the Fair is very near Oxford Circus station (you can get a bus from Marble Arch down to Regent Street and follow the map on the Knit Crawl page)
Christmas knit and Secret Santa « mirgraphy said
[...] week was the last Stitch N Bitch London meet up before the new year and true to form, the Stitchettes organised a Christmas party that confirmed why I loved this group so much. As part of the fun, [...]
jenny greenhalgh said
woo! what a great group, couldn’t believe my eyes when google found me your page when I hit it with “learn to knit socks london”
Can’t wait to join you at the next learners meet. Hopefully i’m not working late that evening. I have basic knit skills. Have just completed my first scarf but my ambition is to be a sock knitter.
see you soon!