Packaging & Crochet, Recycled dress

Fruit,

Brussels Sprouts,

Sweets,

Any type of mesh storage bag.

Crochet edging,

Crochet chains,

Delicate and Beautiful.

My current dress a work in progress.

The colours have been put together,

Without planning and they really work well as if meant to be.

A winter colour scheme.

A knit cafe request

For any one who knows me, sees me at the knit café's in Stockholm.

I really need some more packaging, So if you buy oranges or Sprouts,

Think of me and keep the packaging;-)

Chatting with Sasha Kagan, like you do.

'Knit issue'(Bless you;-)

Who
Sasha Kagan, freelance Rowan many books huge.......
http://www.sashakagan.co.uk/index.html

Where
Twisted Thread Harrogate.

How Come,

She was chatting in front of the stall(Quirky's stall), I noticed her bag the African shop type/fair trade. The type that the fabric is pushed through Hessian!
(not sue of the title)

In fact I have it in my to-do projects, there is a very posh British lady that lives in Sweden and she promotes this at the Swedish knit festival.

Why

As you know I was their to promote my friend, Knit wear pattern designer
(like Sasha) is the path that she has chosen.

Sasha was with a friend whom had a beautiful knitted cable dress/purple.
(my colour of the moment)
I mentioned to Sasha that her friend dress was beautiful,
and asked "had she made it?"

" she replied that's Jean Moss.....? and yes she had designed it"

Just Beautiful and now I know who she is.

We chatted about Angela and I gave my Rowan 1st prize, Dolly dress speak (fun)
She gave some words of wisdom to pass on to Angela,

She told me to tell her "that Sasha said so" I gave her Quirky's card.
(didn't give mine;-(

Grateful I smiled a very nice lady and off she went.( I just didn't know who)

Angela returned I remembered snippets, Im terrible........really should just take a lot of note's.

And she was Sasha? could it be Sasha kagan!? who
I have know idea, I told her about the purple dress and Jane,Jade Moss.......Jean

1 hour later one of Angela's contacts passed by, Angela mentioned my story.......
She replied yes that would be SK and JM they where there to judge the completions.

We laughed and I think that I did well as had I known who she was I may have stumbled.

Jean Moss
http://www.jeanmoss.com/

Jean moss design

Twisted thread inspired little ring.

Hammer beads and my home made flower design made for a cute ring.

Vintage chartreuse Yarn.

Green acrylic.

Hammer Beads.

TWISTED THREAD

Quirky Lil knits aka my friend Hatton;-)

My trip to Uk to assist her 2nd launch at Twisted Thread.
Hectic, but fun a road trip to remember, miles and miles and miles......
But we did well and I think that pattern wise she has made it.

The offers will soon come, her latest dress, modelled here is just so commercial,
It's a style that can suit Young and Old, can be longer, shorter frill, no frill totally adaptable.

And that I think, is what a good design is all about!.

I have a few post on the Twisted so I will not bombard you all at once.
There really was so much to see/inspire/touch and feel.


Below some of the competition Uni entry's, from the show.

Cat print

By Emma Beischer

Bath Spa

Chop stick head

By Mirinae Hong

Central Saint Martins

Natural Fibre's

By Laura Wooding

Buckinghamshire University.

Something different a sketch book, that you could actually look through.

Oh how I love to touch texture, but when it was so beautiful, I felt actually awful for touching......... Go figure.

So I turned the pages like gold dust;-)

Textile group called East, Artist Delia Pusey.

http://www.easttextile.co.uk/artists.html

Finallly MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Well my legs.......

Gino got it 1st official wearing and boy did it get noticed. You just cant beat getting told how wonderful your work is!

Being asked did you make it.........Why yes I did.

The show has a Royal hall/teas room glamorous Red Velvet setting and I cut through this hall. It was a scene for the WRVS all having afternoon tea and a natter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRV

My skirt got eye balled from every direction, a very happy feeling brings back the crochet hand made, lots of nods and winks and that warm sparkly glow knowing it's a one off.

MY MITTENS

I worked on these at the show and then completed on my rather majorly delayed plane at Heathrow on Monday.

A spin on my 1975 project, a practice go at a crocheted pair of mitt's.




Here's how.........


Mitten pattern

8mm hook

1 ball regular yarn dk

1 novelty

1)35 chain

2)Lap top/note pad size ,width (8inchs? enough to fold over your hand)
stitch together starting at the finger point and then as you go around and up the join side.

3)Stitch up 8 stitches or so.

4)Skip out four chains (for thumb hole)

5)Complete the seam.

For the gap

1)Then pick up at thumb hole, I used around 11 stitches

2)Twice crocheted twice around.

3)Then decrease one stitch each row for around five more rows.

Thats it! I think that the next pair I will reduce the hook size so that the stitch is tighter.

Complete with a funky flower in matching yarn.

Knitted Suger Aka Adult Basic Sock 1975

Baby bootee is actually adult sock size.

Pattern Three

Confused!!!

Yes me to, it seems.............. Completely confused and not just my Swinglish but actually two different pages two different patterns. Karin's pattern check confirmed my trouble.

Following the adult pattern and not the baby bootee pattern as planned;-(.

I seem to have gotten the baby boot picture and the adult sock confused.
Scroll down and see 1975 baby pic.

1975

Adult sock style

So my canary yellow and baby yarn are in fact socks for me.

Luckily living in Sweden bed socks are a necessity, well for me
a cold feet suffer.

Below is pattern three waiting for the stitch up;-)

Knit Cafe Friday

Extremely expensive but completely delightful cake.

Sarah Bernhardt

I was thinking ,Swedish Bakery........I love knit cafes not only for knitting, but I always learn something new.......

She is in fact a legendary French actress/Coffee House by George 25kr, but worth every tiny bite,as beautiful as she.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Bernhardt

Adult socks
complete.
And actually on my feet.

My large feet.

Julie, Julia (Knitting challange 1975)

Baby Bootee

Sockor Svenska Sock, I thought that was sugar? oh well........

The diagram to follow.

1975 baby that would be my age ish!

Mittens and socks

Very 70's my colour combination.

I have change the needle size for this pattern down two sizes.

I have been using a 7 and I am using a five.

Just to insure that the bootee are baby sized and not my size.

The baby Bootees

Third pattern

Third challenge,began ok as usual............

Then

Still slowly learning,here is my big mistake.

The amount of cast on stitches,

It is always just to many.(Now I realise)

I cast on around the amount I think that almost measures the 24cm.

But once I get knitting,

I realised that it practically doubles in size................

Tension square........... that's the point!

(I guess they do have a reason, but being a free-form knitter.)

Big truth

NEVER
Never ever, have I used one?

Oj Oj Oj

So I'll fix that and go again, or my baby bootees would have fit me.

24cm

Is in fact around 30 cast on stitches and not the 47(ish)

That measure the 24cm in length before you have commenced the 1st row knit.

Basic I know, that's me with pattern reading/diagram reading.

We all have to learn..........

I'm just a slow learner.

My next post I think that I should attach some of the free-form dresses that I have made.

Because if you read this as the 1st post(about me)
You would think that I just learnt how to finish my first knitted row;-(.

Appologies for the lines, I have been blogging a while and this has never happened
before and I just can not fix it!

lionheart Crochet installation.

Aslan from Narnia

Image/Shauna Richardson

Hare
(Everyday occurrence on a dog walk in Sweden/not crocheted of course.)

A crochet lion on a big scale......

Shauna Richardson
1st mention at my knit cafe in Stockholm, one of the other British mums asked had I heard?

£500 thousand, knitted /crocheted lions?, I know nothing.......

Google and a name (Thanks to Susan) ,Shauna Richardson

Crochetdermy her web site
http://www.shaunarichardson.com/words.php

Her words from site
Maybe anything can be art – A gesture, a van, an empty space. Crochetdermy employs animals, realism, traditional craft and accessibility to explore this theory.

Curiosity, Victorian taxidermy, and the endangered craft of crochet are used to create unique uncanny* life-size and larger animal sculptures.

I guess that this is/was some kind of community project/LONDON Olympics, I guess again/ it was a competition and Shauna won.


So I emailed her, and offered my help!!!!
(well you just never know, unless you ask)

Crochet is of course my favourite thing to do.

And I hope that she doesn't mind me mentioning her on my blog.;-)

Everyday I find some new
knit or crochet project that just blows my mind,
so many good idea's so many creative people.

This is a good time for the traditional craft to shine and inspire the youth of today in so many unthinkable ways.

But that the traditional craft still remains the same we just all choose to use it so differently.

Knitted lego/VHS dress and more.

(via Raverly (Ella)the knit hack photo was taken.)

Lego Man

Lego knit, very cool I found this today whilst checking out what going on in the blogging world.

I think that a lego knit should really be this years Christmas No1 toy.;-)

In my world, along with Pink Uggs and a necklace that says my surname
(like Carrie,S,I,T,C Bradshaw) I hope Rich reads this post, Or that Santa is real..........

http://knithacker.com/

Whist I mention this blog Knithacker I get a mention, well actually my VHS dress.

VHS

I am a knit hack top 10 so that's pretty cool , my VHS dress. A voting system on her blog, all good fun.

VHS is still sitting proudly in my front room on it's mannequin, I must get this is a display place it is just too good to be sat in my house. It was made to be seen;-)

http://knithacker.com/2009/08/04/vhs-dress/

Charity shop Bargain

All this and a Rowan label 50kr's (around £5) now that's a bargain.

And an iccle 50gm ball of Bamboo, Oj Oj Oj

Recommendation

http://www.woolandthegang.com
Funky this upbeat knit site has good easy ideas, fun kits and yarns.
Have a look when you get a minute or two.

Grinch Knitted Mitten (1975)

A Knitted Mitten for the Grinch............

My 1975 challenge part two the mittens,

1st mitten went well or So I thought!
(I seem to be typing that a lot lately)

I mean I did wonder about how long the hand part was becoming.

It was fast becoming a Grinch mitt, extra long fingers.

A working Coffee today, had some teasing by my good friend Kim........as I proudly stitched up my mitt.

Explaining all about my Julie, Julia Child's Knit challenge.

Explaining that is why the Mitt looked a little large,

I am pattern following, 1975 style!.

Mentioning here, putting it together the way that I thought it was supposed to go,
I mean there are no notes on that part,
just the diagram.

Go figure!.




My thumb and the end of the fingers part, traditionally should be quite close.........

And not around 15cm long.

It was here I realised my mistake whist completing mitten two,

I had in fact sewn the cuff(The turn up part) as the hand ,vice verser.

Hence the extended finger part!

Phew easily fixed (oh yeah) and tonight the met my pre teens seal of approval, she is very happy with her new Mitt's.

Good job completed so quickly as it snowed a little again today...........we are in for a bad winter, for sure;-(

Good Mitt verses Grinch Mitt before a quick repair
As I use crochet to stitch up it was quick to UN-pick(frog) and swap ends to stitch.

My Rasmus on his 1st Jog

Today I decided to brave the elements and my strong dog.
And double up my tasks,
dog walk and a run.
And surprisingly it went ok;-)