“I was bedbound for a while, and wasn’t able to be mobile and had to give up a lot of things.

She said knitting was not the same as scrolling through emails, or writing speeches, which she said other councillors have done at meetings.

Ms Garrick said she hoped people could understand why she was knitting in the meeting, and hopes to continue to do so.

She said she planned to cast a blue gentleman’s hat for the Conservative group leader, Richard John.