Posted in colour, donnie, inspiration, kerry, knit, nature, sea, travel, wildlife on August 28, 2020| 4 Comments »
Posted in beads, colour, design, donnie, dublin, flowers, garden, inspiration, knit, nature, pattern, water, wildlife, yarn on June 15, 2020| 2 Comments »
A new pattern now available from Ravelry and my website:
A luxurious crescent shawl inspired by the opulence of ancient Egyptian jewelry.
The color scheme of gold and precious stones is echoed in dibadu’s handpainted 100% silk yarn, Seda Encantada.
The yarn is held double; each color comes in two 50g skeins of slightly different colorways, adding depth and richness when held together.
Knit with three colors: 094 red, 116 yellow and 124 blue. The yarn is available from dibadu.de
Some scenes from around Dublin:
Posted in donnie, dublin, nature, sea, wicklow, wildlife on December 31, 2016| 16 Comments »
Happy New Year to everybody, and thanks for all your visits and comments in 2016!
Holiday walks with Donnie:
a rock:
a squirrel:
Posted in decoration, design, germany, inspiration, knit, museum, nature, new pattern, painting, textile, travel, wildlife, wip on May 26, 2016| 17 Comments »
I’ve been away – some photos –
Munich:
Egypt Museum, Munich:
Museum of Five Continents:
weaving from Myanmar:
South America:
Innsbruck royalty:
Tyrolean folk museum:
knitting near Innsbruck:
Posted in knit, mini, nature, pattern, water, wildlife, wip on April 16, 2014| 4 Comments »
lakeside sunset:
seaside colours:
some knitting:
wildlife painting at the Burren Perfumery:
Posted in dublin, knit, mini, teaching, water, wildlife, wip, yarn on January 27, 2014| 7 Comments »
Rosemary and her friends at the Constant Knitter in Francis Street, Dublin have been encouraging me to try some teaching – a couple of workshops are lined up.
The first (23 Feb) is full up, so there will be a second on the 23rd March.
The workshops will look at colour in knitting.
I’ll be showing a selection of knitlab swatches and talking about colour inspiration and techniques, and then there will be a knitting session to try out some of the techniques.
I noticed love2knitnpurl’s mesmerising Shetland Ruffles on Ravelry this morning:
Still working on pdf, photos and web page details for the pleats scarf/wrap pattern:
The face of knitlab appears again –
the worried expression can be interpreted as “where’s that treat you promised??”
ponds:
Winter sunset:
Posted in mini, sea, water, wildlife on January 20, 2014| 4 Comments »
zoom captures light passing through an abandoned web:
zoom in low lighting creates soft textures:
maximum zoom creates painterly pixelation:
Killiney beach – some of these photos taken with the Chrome filter, which exaggerates colours and gives a slightly metallic look:
Mini in the pond with Chrome filter:
new pattern coming soon:
Posted in costume, decoration, flowers, travel, wildlife on June 28, 2013| 7 Comments »
