Free Form (re visited)

More sample and yet more free form, I'm still not there yet and its nothing like I have seen on some of the blogs but its my version. The random colours that you would never use together and just the outragousness of it. The pictures i haven't turned but if its up the right way it looks like a cape of colour. And has made for some interesting photo's. Experimental fun.

This week I have been mostly fixing

This is now what the front(was the back) of my current dress. What it looks like im not sure! I will again put a ribbon through the holes and it Will be at the front and not the back and now the bustle is in the right place. I just need to work on the sleeves and then begin the under skirt. I hope to have it finished but next weekend, that will be? I think 5 weeks of work. So a big knit project! And Im getting just a little fed up. So if it isnt complete by then I'll shelve its for a while and then come back to it with fresh eyes.

This was the back of my dress! it is now the front? I have worked on different ways of taking the weight and getting an over all top part that I liked and that looked right to the theme of the dress so there has been a whole lot of unpicking and re stitching. I really should make prota types !!!

Bag & Top

My converted neck line top modeled on Kate. Perfect Plain and pearls......

Straw bag or a fruit bowl what ever this was a train travel project.

Fetish dress

This is the back view which i think will soon become the front that way the bustle part will be like a chorus girl on the bottom where its supposed to be. The picture is a little flat so you cant really see what I mean you will just have to trust me!

Here it is!

1) major problem with the weight

2) solution new sleeves?

3) Also in my trying on session I feel that I should reverse the dress? the back will become the front as originally their where more stitches at the front and so when you wear the dress the bustle part is at the front (major cock up)

4) The red part that you can just see is the under skirt and attached, that too has become too heavy! And not the desired effect so I will UN pick that part and also re-think!!!

5) To then create a separate skirt a tight pencil type of style in knit and pearl could be an answer, so all in all its back to the drawing bored.

I had to laugh at the try on and I'm not that bold that I share an image but the black fish seems to have turned into something that either:

Deta Von tease would where?

Marylin Manson!

Or on a Vivian Westwood run way.

None of the above was what I had in mind when I started but I guess that's what its all about.

Never expect the expected.

String for a straw bag

I brought the string in a garden centre in England and decided to make my own wine/beach shopper. The string was £3.29 and so far i have made samples for Turkish crochet and almost completed a bag and I've only used half so its extremely cost effective.

Tiny tights sculpture

The back view, you cant imagine that this was 6 or 7 pairs of little tights and I cant believe how strong the structure is as tights are soft and stretchy.

My tights turned into a little piece of art. The structure is so strong that the dress can stand alone. One row of plain and then one row of pearl (stocking ette?) It would fit a tot but I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to move. So not for the cat walk and more for a display stand or shelf.:-)

Kids tights, this weeks project

After!!!, Kids tight from my saved stash and they will become a toddler cat walk dress (not that kids should be models) But that type of dress that is not for everyday wear, let just say conceptual.

Before!

This week I have been mostley!

Eye pod holder, i used my latest Turkish crochet sample to make a little eye pod around the neck holder. Cute button brought from London years back. Made from cotton.

I added the button and that sets of the front of my toddler fairy dress. Completed!

I have finally finished the black (fiske) part late last night. This dress is defiantly taking its time. And at the moment I am a bit stuck on where to go next as inbetween each tentacle I wanted to put red, and maybe a round crochet motion. But the weight is a big issue, so I think that maybe I'll do what I did with LORRAH and attach a petticoat of knit on the inside so the red then shines through. This should help the weight but will have to be done using a large hook as again this will keep the weight down. Legging will need to be worn.

Little flower fairy

I crochet green ribbon into the straps. Then tread an Organsier light pink ribbon though out the waist. It really is worthy of an Anne Geddie?(Y) (Uk famous baby photographer) baby flower fairy picture.

Knit Update

This is yet more dark yarn, that I am using to make the black Fisk (Swedish for Octopus's or squid) I here the name mentioned alot whist I crochet on the trains. People curious of what I'am making. The dress is just an "on and on" project, 3 weeks and I have still not finished all the black hanging pieces. I just keep underestimating how much wool and last week took daily trips to the Oden plan cheap yarn shop. I think the owner should now remember me? or though he didn't give that Impression, not once!!!

I brought this mannequin last week it' s child size and a bargain at 100:- that's around £7. A clothes shop here has stopped their children's range and sold off there display mannequin.

So its an Ebba and the black and cream dress that I am making is taking so long that I thought I'd take a break and have ago at some little dresses.

Fast and quick to knit up. 8mm hook in cotton wool yarn and I ended up with a fairy dress. I need to fix the sleeves and I think put a ribbon through the waist part and It will be completed.

My free form knitting and crochet. These are all samples and practices pieces that when I went through my stash i found and since researching the "knitting free form style" I wanted to have ago. So here it is a work in progress.

A rainbow of crochet

" The early beginnings of my knit legacy"
Rainbow plastic fantastic

This I made just before I left England it was my 2ND or 3rd attempt at working "An all in one" piece dress. Its made from plastic kids scoubie's and I made it a tad on the tight side I had to stretch it over Kate. My daughter is desperate to hit her teenage years so she can wear it out! now that will be interesting.

What is this for?

I purchased this from my local charity store "Emmaus" and It was in the knit department so I know that is for spinning or something like that but what? I have no idea.

This week I have been mostly! crochet-ing

Today Iam having a turn out day! going through all my extra pieces(knit samples,tention squares etc) Just to see if I can make something new with them, "fresh eyes" as they say.
As an artsy crafty type we (yes all) buy little bits here and their and we hoard samples, yarn ends,ribbon, buttons etc.
And it can be a really inspirational time, going back through remembering what and why you made the sample brought the thing, button?. Heres my example explained. The broach, the pin part I have had for years from hobby craft type store, brought the button in London and then stitched it on a random flower crochet sample I tried to make! and wa!,la.

So far so good, thus being a long project. I still have not yet completed all the black tentacle's and the yarn i am getting through like water. It's looking amazing but the cost sheet is adding up. Only £2.40 from the UK the rest is in kr, so watch this space.

Turkish Crochet

My excellent work! neat little boxes, once it's mastered I will add beads and make a scarf. As far as crochet goes this isn't a stitch you can do fast but it is extremely uniform thus given the appearance of extremely difficult! (Easy when you know how!)

My many attempts at Turkish crochet. I discovered a knit lab (most fabulous yarn store I have been to yet!)

And a very kind lady, took the time to help me as my many attempts failed me. I have to learn by the picture I cant read the pattern it never make sense so I just try and break it down. I now know enough stitches to work it out.

But this was the hardest yet!

With a little help I have cracked it. I just need to work on the edges.

All my samples wont be lost in vein as I can use them in some free form crochet.

And in my attempt at trying to learn Turkish I discovered another new stitch.

In Swedish its called Krockning! (bad spell)

Updates

Liquorish allsort's on Kate.

A belted Lotrrh

Knitting Converstion

This top was one of my first knitted pieces and I really didn't like the neck line! to fluffy but at the time I was unable (not confident enough to unpick and redo)

1 year on how ever and If any thing I'm a little too confident with my unpicking, but if you don't brake it you can't learn to fix it! (UK daft saying)

But any way it worked and the new neck is better, still not sure I'd want to where it but the memory's of making it are too precious to unpick completely. (As it was my 1st perfect no mistakes plan and pearl attempt)

Knit cafe at my house!

My HND Friend just visited from UK, so it was a good time to inspire and brush up on some techniques and my daughter joined into. And yes that is a pear cider each in the back ground not tea!(not for Monet of cousre) but we are in "Sveige"

Take time to learn something new,international trying to learn Turkish Crochet. We even visited a new yarn shop.

Knitlab.se

Fab shop, knit cafe on a sunday 12 till 4 and meet a hole load of new, nice people.

This week I am mostley crochet-ing a dress!

This is the chest part. I' m again making the dress in one piece as i find this works for me and the dress takes shape as I go. Its a basque shape and then I think that I will add an elaborate sleeve. (my daughter thinks its for Cruella Devil, I just need some dalmation puppy's)

Here is the edging part. This dress is going to be only in cream, black and gray. Very winter and not my usual colour pallet. But I'm trying some thing new. The crochet I am trying to make more sculptured and how I'm achieving this is by crocheting in one piece but hopefully in different directions.