Knittaz with Attitude – knitting, crochet & all kinds of social stitchery

Join us for some casual social stitchery.

About this event
Bring your own crafty projects or have a play with some of our kit. We’ll have good tunes, yummy veggie/vegan food and plenty of brews.
We’ll be hatching project plans too – so tell us what’s on your mind, what can we do through the power of craft?
Beginners warmly welcomed.

MAY SESSION

Knittaz With Attitude is excited to welcome Alena Ruth Donely as we plan a collaborative live tufting session to take place in Aunty Social’s shop space on Saturday 15 June 2024.

We’ll:

• Talk about what tufting is and how you do it
• Consider themes and messages that are important to us that we would like to develop in our collaborative piece
• Learn about Alena’s practice and get a closer look at her fabulous artworks

This session will run alongside our regular meet-up.

About the artist

Alena Ruth Donely is a freelance artist and workshop tutor specialising in rug tufting. Based in Manchester, Alena has utilised tufting guns to create artwork since 2016 and has been running Manchester Tufting Workshops since 2020. In her own art practice, Alena forms creativeness from mental health struggles and uses tufting as a self-soothing tool. Her artwork is playful, bright and garishly colourful; sometimes taking visual references from her hometown of Blackpool and her new home in Manchester.

Alena primarily runs public and private tufting workshops from her studio in Salford, occasionally facilitating live tufting sessions for private events offsite. She has exhibited in group exhibitions in HOME, Castlefield Gallery and The Whitworth, and run live tufting events for The Manchester Contemporary and Rochdale Town Hall. She has also been featured on BBC Radio 5 Live and collaborated with Salford Lads and Girls Club.

Cost: £4 (£3 for kids)

Includes

• Wool & Equipment.
• A plant-based meal
• Hot and cold drinks

Please book in advance where possible so we can make enough food.
TOP TIP: If you need to park a car, then there is usually plenty of free on-street parking on Edward St and Topping St from 6pm.

Please note that refund requests will still pay the Eventbrite processing fee.

Book your place here

Access
These sessions are in our upstairs workshop space. We’re having a lift installed which should be in place for our March session onwards.
There is currently no level access. It’s a single flight of 14 steps then you go around the corner and there are two small steps. Once you’re upstairs there’s a loo. You shouldn’t need to come downstairs for anything until the end of the event.

If you can’t manage the stairs but really want to attend, please let us know by the 24th of the month before by emailing (using the contact organiser button/link) or sending us an SMS text/WhatsApp message on 07957 602790. and we will try to move the activity downstairs.

If you have additional access needs (e.g. large print, BSL interpreter, level access) please let us know.

PLEASE BOOK YOUR SPOT TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.