I have recently been swatch-crazy. As I don’t necessarily have time to knit all of the many cardigans and jumpers that I want from other people’s patterns, I’ve decided to make a tension square for each instead, to give me a taste. Julieta from Knitshop was kind enough to give me a couple of sample […]
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I was sent an excellent gift this week, for my birthday and I just had to show you because I think you’ll all want one. A lovely friend of mine sent me a yarn candle, which I believe came from Loop in London. I can tell you now that I’ll never burn it… I went
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Nobody Owens, image copyright Giles Babbidge Photography Reading Neil Gaiman’s fabulous, spooky children’s story The Graveyard Book last year, I was struck by the changes in the small world of the main character. An orphaned baby at the start of the book, he is taken in by not the living, but the dead in order
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By Ingrid Murnane and the #plateaknitters Design Story For five days in February 2010 I devised and led a knitting performance on Twitter called #plateaknit. Instructions were tweeted by the @platea online performance collective for others to interpret to the best of their ability in knitting, crochet or any other medium of their choice. Some
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I have been involved for a couple of years in an online art group called @platea. I’m part of their steering committee and earlier this year, devised and led a performance called #PlateaKnit on 25th -29th January 2010. As our strap line says, “@Platea is a global collective of individuals interested in the power of
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