Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Ravelry


Woo hoo - got my invite to Ravelry in my inbox today. Will have to investigate and make my way around the site/community.

New members can only currently join by invitation, but that's purely because it's in testing and they can only add so many people at one time. All you have to do is sign up, and wait for an email... and then you're off!

Friday, March 28, 2008

In search of the perfect scarf...


If confused by the picture above I do apologise, this is here in lieu of a more relevant one, and dear reader, read on and all will become clear.

Scarves are the one thing that I made obsessively when I first learnt to knit, and so it follows that as I improved I moved on to more complicated fare. Still, recently I have been hunting high and low to find a really indispensable navy scarf (one of my absolute favourite colours, in spite of the school uniform!)

Anyway, inspired by a rash purchase today (which I will come to later) I have decided that I am going to make my own - using Debbie Bliss Cotton DK (my new favourite yarn), in moss stitch, hence the picture above.

Now, onto this picture above and today's rash purchase Baby Knits for Beginners, again, by the aforementioned Debbie Bliss. I didn't knit these, but have plans to, and lots of, as it seems that all of my friends are getting pregnant like there's no tomorrow. So, whilst technically not pregnant, nor with any immediate plans to be you can begin to see how this may have been a rash purchase. I put it down to the impending god-mother-hood. Am I taking this too seriously?

PS - this fine photo came courtesy of Something From Nothing, whom I believe are based in Oz.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Micro Revolt


I was sent this link by the lovely Willow the other day. Micro Revolt are a group of people in America that work on knitting, crochet and needlepoint projects as a little fingers up to sweatshops (and globalisation it looks like). Personally I've never quite got into the whole craft feminist movement - I just enjoy it - but definitely like the look of knitpro. Knitpro claims to translate an image of your choice into a knitting, crochet or needlepoint pattern - it's just a shame it's not up and running at the moment.