Talks at Make Joy

Creativity, Colour and Calm: A Conversation Between Helda Panagary and Sylvia Watts-Cherry

Enjoy a conversation between long-time friends and crochet and knitting designers Helda and Sylvia as they chat about the creativity of their respective crafts, love of colour, and how they influence their designs.

Knitting and Mental Health with Jonna Helin

In a motivational, empowering and deeply touching talk, Laine Publishing CEO and Creative Director Jonna Helin draws on her personal journey with bipolar disorder and ADHD and shares how knitting can serve as a therapeutic outlet, while also referencing medical studies that support the mental health benefits of this creative practice.

Knitting Longevity with Susan Byrne

Good, comfortable posture is essential to our health and wellbeing and in this session Susan will provide you with hands-on, practical tips to help improve your posture in daily tasks - and of course knitting! As a retired Physiotherapist, Susan has studied posture and wellbeing in the UK and abroad.

Wild & Woolly x Knit15 Presents: Knitters’ Question Time

From straightening out your wobbly rib to re-sizing advice. From finding the right pattern for your knitting mood to making friends with colour. From locating your lost knitting mojo to puzzling out intarsia on a seamless sweater, we’ve all got questions we wish we had answers to. They may be big, small, technical, spiritual, radical, practical, or even slightly ridiculous.

We welcome them all!

Knitters’ Question Time is your chance to pose the questions you’ve been aching to ask and get answers from 4 expert knitters with a combined knitting age of over a hundred sweaters. 

Email questions to kqt@wildandwoollyshop.co.uk