Salsa gets shoulders straps!

It's title is going to be Angela as I reminds me of my very extravagant friend from England.
It's bright fun and extremely clashing and defiantly not the norm! ;-)
(So that just about sums her up!)
My one and only knit buddie from home;-(
(On my return I will change this a knit cafe is defiantly in line for Reading my home town)
Now I'm working on the back and some sleeve's. I like the crochet present ribbon and will probably use for the back and then the sleeves I have been saving all the orange's packaging (Red holey bags) so some recycling in in order.

Beaded

Fun beads a crochet front and a stripy knitted back. I made it in a similar way to the Swedish flag top.
1st) Crochet the front square adding the beads before I knitted(5mm hook).
2nd) The back I knitted rows of plain as if a scarf (48 stitches size 8mm).
3rd) I attached using crochet and then picked up with crochet at the top to pull the boob tube in.
4th) Crocheted a cord to hold the top up, ribbon opptional.

And it's not a quick knit, I had actually made this the last holiday (Sports loff) but just didn't get around to finishing it. Sunday after spending the afternoon with my knit family at knit lab(knit cafe) I was on a role, I completed it pm!.........good feeling finishing off my current projects.

This week I have mostley been Crocheting

Lots to do to finish it, but this is how it looks so far. I have a lot of holes to fill in but that's the fun of free form you just never know what your going to end up doing or where?:-).

My Art sample has now changed form (Wall hanging at first) and is kind of looking like a dress for salsa dancing or a Spanish (but not so traditional). It would definitely not a very comfortable to dance in as it's made from yarn, gift ribbon, cut up old stiff fabric and some knit sample squares I made a while back and never used.

New York cool

A cherry twist with a difference.

Taken in the Herseys shop, I hate the chocolate but love the design Idea of all the packaging and on display they had dresses that had been made either using the sweets them selves or the packaging. This was the only one that I could get close enough to take the picture.

Baker boy hat

Every year we head to a festival and this year I will have a cool hat to keep me warm. it's not quite the dress I planned but that just gives me something else to do.......
My daughter has been listening to a lot of Bob Marley and I guess that's where the influence has come from. My (it went wrong) Union Jack crochet is now a baker boy style hat.

Last weeks knitting!

This is more an Art piece than a knit cafe project, structure and texture.

It's usually titled this week "I have been mostly knitting" but I still not back up to speed my 5 days away, my daughter and my husbands birthdays and we get the puppy next week so I have been a little busy and sadly this has affected my knitting time;-)
So this is a catch up blog of where I am knit wise and what I'm workling on.......

New York Knitty! (not)

Looking out of Central Park
Gilbert and George!
Cy Tomley

New York New York! start spreading the news, the news being! "that I didn't find any knit shops".
I couldn't believe it due to the Debbie Stroller mania I figured that they be everywhere. In the craft streets that I found they where lined with beads stores and beading stores and no Yarn.
No nutty knitters, not one!...... did I spot whist having my numerous Starbucks/Pret and regular diner store coffee.

I loved the city the busy streets the huge building and Central park was really nice even in winter, It even snowed a little my first night to my surprise.

But as far as knitting and fashion these link in my world, nothing!!! Not one fantastic out fit did I see that inspired me.

So in the end, it was the surroundings that did inspire me. The huge sky scrapers, it seemed as if in places nothing matched they mixed fairly old buildings right next to bran new shiny one's. It was such a mixture of architecture, I just loved the Juxtaposition.
The concrete against With a winter bare naked trees of Central Park inspired me more than any of those cool New Yorker Types of people that I expected to see.

Extreme embroidery , titled "Pricked" is the exhibition to see. If you get to New York before the End of April.