Knitting demon
| I've been a bit of a knitting demon recently, however, I've been really poor on the actually finishing part of this. But before I get into knitting porn, I would like to share an astonishing photo (that, incidentally, shattered my cool jet setter image whilst sipping champagne at 35,000 ft). Now, this is Greenland. Normally you can't see a rat’s ass of it when you fly over.  Also - this photo was taken in the garden at home, shortly before the suckers were picked and eaten - YUM! Slimy Ink Caps!  Since I've been such a slack ass at posting recently, let me catch up in 1 gigantic post on knitting for now - the rest can wait. It is an odd time to do this, granted, being 9 pm or so on a Saturday night, any self respecting girl in SF should be hitting some achingly cool watering spot and dazzling the locals with their wit and beauty. My bf, however, is watching UFC with a friend, so I opted for blogging, DVDs and hot chocolate instead. My self-respecting days are long gone. I'll spare the work in progress shots for some other time. Hopefully to aid the actual finishing of items, I've purchased a blocking board, so I'll no longer have to deal with serious ghetto "old cardboard box with towel" combo in my room ever again. Now - we have some knitting porn from the Knit and Stitch 2005 at Ally Pally show I visited whilst in London. Broken down into roughly 3 categories, I'll spare the "here is the Collinette stall, and here is the Rowan one" photos. We have: - Clothing  This coat was really cool, although god knows what the photo is of. I'm assuming someone didn't check their gauge at all. Art  The white house Yarn  Actually, more like colorful brains For sanity of others, you can click to see more photos! More Clothes  A weird cape thing...  A beautiful dress  Fun scarves at Habu     Some fun things in the fashion design graduate section...  This may inspire interest back into scarf making  I've never felted, but this makes me want to More Art  Back page  Blocking IS an art form  The tea party More Yarn  Habu love - the only stall you get a shot of! My wallet nearly went crazy until I realized that the stuff was more expensive here than in SF...  Just some colorful hanks. That's all folks Where did I start? |
FranklinMinty rants @ 10:48 PM
Comments on "Knitting demon"
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illanna said ... (6:50 AM) :
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FranklinMinty said ... (8:36 AM) :
post a commentThanks for posting those pictures! That looks like a great show. I've seen that yarn at Habu that they made those scarves from and I never knew what I would do with it. I like the idea of stuffing a blob in it- it looks like shibori. The red scarf in the scarf picture that is all cut out on the edges is very interesting to me. It's felted, isn't it? Again, thanks for posting those pics!
It was a pretty fun show - I was dissappointed that it seemed like knitting was in the minority - most of the stalls just looked like Joanns!.
Those Habu scarves were so much fun, and yes, the red scarf was felted and cut, I believe