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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May colours
Posted in beads, design, dublin, flowers, garden, knit, mini, nature, new pattern, sea, wildlife, wip on May 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Inspirations – old notebooks
Posted in design, dublin, flowers, garden, home, inspiration, nature, pattern, textile on May 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Some pages from a pre-digital age with inspirations and sketches for textile designs: 2 postcards from Ljubljana: More peonies from Farmleigh: Front door flowering cherry: Have a nice weekend!
Knit Red Stole, etc.
Posted in echo beach, flowers, garden, home, inspiration, knit, mini, nature, pattern, wip, yarn on April 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Some more pics of the stole from Laura Zander’s Knit Red Book – these photos were taken by Sandy of Jimmy Beans by the Truckee River – Sandy knit the sample, thank you very much Sandy! – the lovely model is her friend Victoria: Other news: This image of Echo Beach is going to be [...]
Birr Castle
Posted in flowers, garden, mini, nature, travel on March 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Thanks for recent comments! A visit to Birr Castle to see Magnolias etc: Early photography at Birr: The telescope: Czar Plum Blossom at home: From orangepippin.com: “Czar is a large dark black/purple early-season plum, with good astringency and useful for culinary purposes. It can also be eaten fresh if you leave it to get fully [...]
winter sun
Posted in dublin, flowers, garden, mini, nature on December 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Mini enjoying some winter sun in St Stephen’s Green: the last dahlia: new generation: beach finds: More junk: Dublin street:
I got temporarily bored by the triangle and started something new with some Noro that I got a while back. It’s called Noro Knots, because the knots and unexpected colour changes in the yarn enhance this pattern. Here’s a photo: We’ve had a month’s worth of rain over the last couple of days: Some Autumn [...]
Bantry
Posted in garden, textile on September 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Thanks for all the comments on recent posts! I’m back home , working on the Jamieson and Smith project again, hoping to finish as soon as possible. I have lots more photos from the trip to Cork and Kerry. One of the highlights was a visit to Bantry House: Mini on the parterre: textile collage: [...]
the poppy
Posted in flowers, garden, knit on July 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This is the current state of the poppy from the last post: Some more flowers from the garden:
Knitcircus
Posted in design, garden, knit, nature, new pattern on May 3, 2011 | 24 Comments »
I have a new pattern in the Knitcircus Summer pattern collection, which is coming out tomorrow. It’s a striped rectangle called Mughal shawl, vaguely based on textile patterns from miniature paintings. If you’d like a copy of the Knitcircus pattern collection, please say so in the comments! – I will have 10 complimentary copies to [...]
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