Sketchbook finished, no studio, grey days – what am I to do with my leisure time? As I have written about before, I enjoy knitting, but I don’t have a high success rate at choosing patterns to knit that I actually like when they are finished and I am wearing them. I think I [...]
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I read this article on the Guardian fashion blog about a group of knitting grannies, who knit articles for Danish designers that are sold in limited numbers in shops in Denmark. I thought it was a wonderful idea. How lovely for these ladies to be able to put their skills to good use. The [...] Do you know what that is? I didn’t until I read about the graffiti knitters in London on the Guardian today. Then I went over to Knit the City and found out what it is all about: Yarnstorming: the art of enhancing a public place or object with graffiti knitting Right now we need [...] I discovered the work of Isabelle de Borchgrave by chance today while browsing around the www. Isabelle makes the most amazing costumes from rag paper. They range from the Medici Collection that reproduces the sumptuous garments from the Florentine Renaissance period to Haute Couture including wedding dresses and veils and a paper coat made [...] I first saw the pattern for this cardigan linked from Kristin’s blog. You can find the pattern at Knitty. Here is a photo of my finished cardy. All three look completely different. Mine turned out slightly baggier than the original. The problem being that I couldn’t get yarn to match exactly the tension [...] Regular readers may recognise this wool. I have knitted it up 3 times now. It seems to becoming a habit with me to knit something and then not like it and unravel it all and start again. Even the number 3 seems to be recurring as it is not the first time that I [...] After I finished the cushion at Christmas I needed something else to keep my hands occupied. So I unravelled this pullover and knitted it up again in a different pattern. This is nothing unusual for me. I don’t know why I always seem to choose the wrong designs the first time round. I liked [...] The front was finished before we even got to England. I knitted most of the back in Brighton over Christmas. So when we got home I just had to sew the seams and knit the neck and armhole welts. All done now. Here is a photo of the finished model: And here is the [...] Well I finally managed to persuade the photographer to take a photo of my knitting. This is the progress to date: Things were going well until I came to the armholes. I have knitted the shaping for the armholes at least twice now. It was tricky getting the correct number of stitches and [...] |
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