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Small triumphs
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008 by Laura
Filed under Finished Objects
I have indulged in a cheeky bit of crochet as light relief from intarsia
Hurrah! I have finished the star intarsia project! I’m super chuffed with the results and that I have remembered the techniques I learnt from the workshop and that I have put them to good use. It’s definitely got my creative brain ticking and I’ve been doing plently of doodle-o-grams of new knitty ideas!
I have even embraced designing some crochet items – only small mind, but it’s definitely a start. A couple of adorable amigurumi projects arrived at LK HQ this morning for a future issue, and not only are these too cute for words, they look like a lot of fun to make! I’m tempted to try my hand and creating kookie little characters of my own now!
It may be grey today, but here’s what’s bringing me some sunshine...
Tomorrow I get to meet my brand new nephew for the very first time! I’m really looking forward to seeing the little chap – if he’s like his brothers he will be a very handsome wee fella! Let’s hope he’s not camera shy – I’m a very snap-happy aunty and I plan on taking a bazillion photographs! Oh! And I can’t wait to see what he looks like in his Wee Willie Winkie hat and the BSJ!
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Star struck
Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 by Laura
Filed under On The Needles
I can't believe that I have finally mastered two handed, dual yarn knitting!!
After a week of incredible workshops with Sasha and Jean I have found myself all kinds of inspired and straight away got stuck into a kookie design of my own whilst waiting for my flight back from France.
I desperately wanted to try out Sasha’s method of intarsia, carrying the unused yarns along the back of the work, knitting with both hands and weaving them in as you go. I was a little worried that the swatch I made in class might have been a fluke and I would end up with the biggest knot in the universe.
To my utter delight I can do it!
The great thing about working on your own pattern is you can pick whatever motif you want… the bad thing about picking your own pattern is the design you want isn’t always the easiest to chart! Perhaps this was just my wonky logic, but I thought that a star would be a lovely and striking design that would be easy to draw on to a chart… It would seem not! Geometric shapes are pretty tricky to map out onto graph paper but I think I have been fairly successful, although it makes me think of starfish rather than the night sky!!
It was great fun watching the pattern emerge, and even better when you see the wrong side is a full of tidy diamonds of twists and wraps. Yum!
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Spot on!
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 by Laura
Filed under Miscellaneous
Issue 7 of Let's Knit is out now!
The June issue is full to bursting with heaps of exciting knitting projects – we know how lovely it is to embrace our girly side so you’ll find stacks of feminine, frilly and frivolous knits to get excited about! Plus there are FREE 5mm acrylic twist needles and their own case along with five patterns for using them!
A couple of things that made me grin…
Domestic bliss-ery
There might not be heaps of fun in doing chores (and the only place housework comes before knitting is in the dictionary!) but I love how Peggy-Sue turned out! This peg bag definitely satisfies the (sometimes dormant) housewife in me!
New knitty skills
I have learnt so many amazing things this week I feel like I might pop! Can’t wait to get the needles out and attack that stash-WoopWoop!
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Blooming Lovely
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 by Laura
Filed under On The Needles
I’m not being unfaithful to knitting, but crochet is definitely my best friend!
After a massively rewarding Crochet Flowers workshop with Sasha Kagan I now feel like I can finally say, “I love crochet!” It was great to spend some time covering the basics and then looking at how the stitches create different shapes and effects.
The knitter in me still finds it tricky to coordinate holding the yarn and the hook, then make the movements fluid enough to actually form stitches. For someone that is used to holding two pointy sticks and yarn you would have thought that working with one hook and some yarn would be a piece of cake…not so! I’m starting to make it look less awkward and getting more confident about the results. Who knows, with a spot more practise I might actually call myself a crochet-er (What do you call a person that crochets?)
I have also just spent a fantastic hour interviewing Sasha for Let’s Knit – what an amazing woman and what an abundance of creativity and what a truly inspiring experience! Now I can’t decide whether to spend the evening practising my crochet or improving my intarsia technique – tough decisions!
Three cheers for crochet! Woop Woop!
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