Category: Knitting
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Kaffe Fassett – A Life in Colour Exhibition
Originally posted on Monster Yarns: It was a specifically uninspiring day weather-wise on Friday in London. And since I’ve started my new job, I’ve been more than usually under the kosh from a work-load point of view. I had earlier in the week, in a fit of optimism, booked myself a timed-ticket to the Kaffe…
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Friday’s Finishing
Just a quick peek at what I was working on this week. Managed to finish another Ocean Breeze scarf this time in a medium blue green combination. The embellished coral reef broche is done in colours with a brighter quality than the last one. All I can say is I really need my beach fix…
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Strolling in my Garden
I was strolling around my garden the other day and have to say one of my favourite flowers to plant each year is the Pansy. The Pansy is such a versatile and hardy flower with amazing colour combinations. They dance and move so gracefully in the breeze adding incredible delight to my garden. I was…
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Altering the Ocean Breeze
This weekend I was busy working on altering one of my designs previously called the Modern Twist Scarf. This scarf had an embellished broche included. It just so happened I had made most of them in a selection of blues ranging from darks to lights. I am in the middle of reworking some of my current…
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Hand Spun Treasures
Hand Spun yarn adds such an amazing colour, texture and style to any design. The garment is handmade from the top to the bottom of the piece with a special yarn spun with love and great skill. The skein of art is then passed over to another Artist to create a design with this magnificent yarn. I…
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I Envy Green
Someone once told me “blue and green should never be seen”. On the contrary, I envy green and seriously disagree with this statement. What a loss it would be to not put these two colours together. The pictures shows some of what I have been inspired to work on this week and blue and green were obviously…
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Hookers at the Skate Park
Originally posted on CONFESSIONS OF A YARN-A-HOLIC: I’m not sure of the story behind this photo, but it was too cute not to share… I ran across it in a Facebook post, and was able to trace back as far as the Hatnut Ideen album by German yarn shop Bastelund Hobbykiste. As a YARN-A-HOLIC and pop culture junkie, I’m…
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A Sweater Flashmob
Originally posted on CONFESSIONS OF A YARN-A-HOLIC: What’s better than 500 hand knit sweaters? Putting them all in a flashmob, of course. Since 1955, Loes Veenstra has knitted over 550 sweaters and stored them in her home on the 2nd Carnissestraat in Rotterdam. Loes and the fruit of her decades of knitting were ‘discovered’ by…
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Fuzzy Little Friends:
These fuzzy little friends of my knitting world are so adorable and belong to the Alberta Rose Alpacas at www.albertarosealpacas.com Stopped by for a visit to check out the amazing yarn they grow locally. Alpacas have to be the most adorable animals and one of my favourite yarns to use. These guys had such character…
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