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May colours

Posted in beads, design, dublin, flowers, garden, knit, mini, nature, new pattern, sea, wildlife, wip on May 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Weathered hoardings: Second version of new pattern (a third is blocking): Poppy suffering effects of awful weather: Howth – a seal swimming out to greet a boat: spot the dog:

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More about Romeo

Posted in alexander McQueen, beads, costume, inspiration, Romeo Gigli, textile on April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

More Romeo Gigli, and some Alexander McQueen, who worked in Gigli’s studio before studying design in London. The model in the ads is Kirsten Owen photographed by Paolo Roversi.

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Romeo Gigli – inspiration

Posted in beads, inspiration, Romeo Gigli, textile on March 31, 2012 | 5 Comments »

Summer 1990: Winter 1991: Approximate pronunciation: Ro-MAY-o JEEL-yee

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Thank you!

Posted in beads, black swan mantilla, knit, new pattern, pattern, ravelry, yarn on March 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Test knitters make life much easier for me – in the case of BSM there was no way I could have done a second sample to illustrate the simpler border after all the time I spent on the first one. Here are the two test knits of the unfringed version, both quite different from mine: [...]

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BSM pics

Posted in beads, black swan mantilla, design, knit on March 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Here are some more photos from the development of the BSM. The early ones date back to January, and show the start of the knitting of the sample shawl. There was a previous round of swatching to establish the best cast on method, the rate of increasing and positioning of the increases, the rate of [...]

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BSM & Seascape Stole

Posted in beads, black swan mantilla, design, knit, knitty, pattern on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

BSM is finished – just need to double check the bead quantities, and fine tune the pdf – I’m delighted that Seascape (below) is approaching 1,000 projects on Ravelry, and I’ve just started work on an interesting new version of it – details to follow…

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Munich to Salzburg

Posted in beads, costume, design, germany, knit, pattern, travel, wip, yarn on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This selection includes Bavarian knees from the Hofbräuhaus, a ceiling from the Villa Stuck, Austrian snow scenes, sketches for improved beaded borders (plus me doing the sketches), and a little wool shop in Salzburg. I didn’t find any lace weight yarn in Munich or Salzburg – except for something that’s a bit like Kidsilk Haze [...]

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