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!
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Inspirations – old notebooks
Posted in design, dublin, flowers, garden, home, inspiration, nature, pattern, textile on May 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Walkies
Posted in dublin, flowers, home, inspiration, mini, nature, sea, water, wildlife, yarn on April 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »
War Memorial Cherries: Killiney Beach: Seaside snack: Yarn:
Autumn Colours
Posted in dublin, flowers, home, knit, mini, nature, wip on November 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Monday morning sky: Sunday flowers: Shetland Ruffles new version swatch blocking:
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 [...]
Mercato dei Fiori
Posted in design, garden, home, knit, latvia, mini, new pattern, pattern, ravelry, wip, yarn on April 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I love stranded knitting. This project was an abandoned design from around the time I started making Nine Lives. It was called Stranded Triangle – it’s quite an irregular triangle – the yarn is Rowan Pure Wool 4ply, on 3.25mm needles. It was too small, there were too many increases in the striped stranding at [...]
Scenes from knitlab
Posted in home, mini, scenes on January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The knitlab kitchen got a make-over last year to let some more light in – big windows and reflective units from ikea.
