Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on May 30, 2007 | Comments Off
Ran into this in another one of my many trips to the bookstore looking for design ideas and fell in love with a project inside this book. Little did I know, you can simply recycle an aging Fair Isle sweater that you bought ready made and felt the heck out of it in the washer, [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on May 27, 2007 | Comments Off
After seeing this beautiful headband made by Caroline, I knew I had all the inspiration I needed to get started on an early birthday gift for my son. The Noro she used is no longer available, so I chose Noro Silk Garden Lite (silk, mohair, lambswool blend) for the pattern color (color 2027), and a synthetic [...]
Posted in Patchwork on May 25, 2007 | Comments Off
Serendipity is a wonderful thing in one’s life…as often happens, one thing led to another and I found myself in a craft store I had never heard of before that was recommended to me by someone I had run into accidentally. As I walked into the fabric room of this store my eyes popped wide [...]
Posted in On the Needles on May 18, 2007 | Comments Off
Do you know how it takes forever to finish one thing? It is very gratifying to be able to knit a little bit of luxury and experience the fruits of your labor after only a few hours and have something very practical in the end. I got the idea for the chenille yarn after buying [...]
Posted in On the Needles on May 17, 2007 | Comments Off
I planned to have all kinds of show and tell today, but this was the only photo that I really liked. Taking a little break from winter knitting, I was craving something soft and pretty to work on during my wee free time this week. The Anny Blatt angora pillow I was making wasn’t working [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on May 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This design came from one of the most interesting vintage publications I’ve uncovered so far, More Knitting in Vogue: Patterns from the 20’s to the 80’s to knit now for men and women, by Christina Probert (1983, Viking Press). Over half the designs are Aran and Fair Isle or Norwegian, all shown with their original [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on May 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Here is a very unusual Norwegian inspired ski sweater design from France that I came across this week in my library search for new and interesting vintage designs. This one comes from the publication, Pingouin Classic Knits (Sally Harding, 1994) which provided an ensemble of designs from their design archive of over 10,000 patterns (wow). [...]
Posted in Norwegian Folk Art on May 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Norwegian folk art is so charming and adorable, I’ve always wanted to learn other Norwegian crafts besides sweater knitting from Norway, like their famed rosemaling painting. After joining the Rosemaling Yahoo Groups list, I started to receive the most interesting links from time to time and thought I would share this one, where you can view a video [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Researching two color knitting designs, I came across Charlene Schurch’s book, Mostly Mittens, which I found unexpectedly tucked away on a musty library shelf. All the patterns in the book are documented from traditions followed by ”Russia’s Komi People” (a mixed population of Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian descent). Geographically speaking, they are adjascent to the baltic region of two color folk [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I recently had the opportunity to review a copy of this older title by Nancy Bush which Interweave Press has recently brought back in print (here) in the hopes of finding some wonderful mitten and glove patterns that could be used as a ‘master’ for any two color design. For beginners, on the plus side, all of the instructions [...]
