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You can make it even easier to participate on you Apple or Android devices by installing the "Go to Meeting" app on your device. How to Participate: You can listen to the audio portion of the special guest interview events through your PC, and type in your questions and comments using the text chat. Social Media Training on Social Media Tools. DiaryofaCreativeFanatic. Image | Phildar 16 Having a library of adaptable, basic garment patterns is something I've always believed to be useful. The first of these basic garments is the cap sleeve top. This pattern can be made in cotton or cashmere, take you from winter to summer and is ideal for layering. The pattern itself is very simple and if you read further, I've rendered four different possibilities for this style.
Basically you are knitting the body in one piece. Presto, a top! Read further for pattern, style and finishing tips and helpful sites. The schematics or drawing of the garment's shape gives you the dimensions you are to work to. Basic patterns are great to have in your library for a number of reasons. Knowing how to properly finish a garment makes all the difference between a garment looking "homemade" and not "handmade". Sites you may find useful for tips on finishing: Top 10 Knitting Blogs, 2013 edition - Libertys Yarn. About | Brandon Knitting Designs. Through the years, I have been surrounded by incredibly talented women who have inspired me to find ways to use my creativity.
My great grandmother…my grandmother…my mother….and a wonderful woman who was a friend of my mom’s who taught me how to knit when I was eight. Since then…I have taken classes, read books, and tried a lot of techniques…but seem to always return to Fair Isle and Aran designs. On a Rowan Yarn Tour of the Highlands and Islands, I had the absolute pleasure of taking classes with both Alice Starmore and Kaffe Fassette…so you see where my love of color comes from. I’ve even been called “The Colour Lady” by Jamieson & Smith, Shetland Woolbrokers. The highlight of my year is the Kanuga Knitting and Quilting retreat that I coordinate in the mountains of North Carolina every January. Now I design for several yarn companies and myself… and seeing where this trail of yarn will take me. EYE-LIKEY: afro basaldella. Afro Basaldella Italian 1912-1976 Italian abstractionist, known simply as Afro.
Was born in the town of Udine not far from Venice. His first exhibition was held in Milan when he was only twenty. In 1937 in Paris, Basaldella got acquainted with cubism, which was his first step to art. Afro abandoned figurative art with lines and shapes getting less definite and dabs more vague. Developed a near-abstract style in under the influence of Klee and late Cubism. Although Afro is obscure to most, even omitted from many art history books, his work stands up to his abstract contemporaries. From 1950 on he made frequent visits to the United States, developing a looser, more improvisatory abstract style partly under the influence of Gorky, Braque, Kline and de Kooning. A photo shoot from LIFE mag c. late 50's In the collection of, The Cleveland Museum of Art in his studio Afro during an interview c. 1970's. check out that beauty behind him. yes, he could draw.
I am the most interesting man alive. Las Ladies leemos… : Backstage Ladies. Las Ladies leemos… Style with heart: el blog de esta gran guía de moda ética Prunis Dulcis: Patrones y diseño textil. Exquisito y muy inspirador. The Concrete Company Madrid: Sastrería y artesanía denim. Oye Deb! Eco-diseño: el espacio donde María nos habla de producción sustentable y proyectos de diseño ético y respetuosos con el medio ambiente. Le blog de Betty: “Ego-bloguera” con estilazo. The Style Rookie: la adolescente Tavi Gevinson (16 primaveras) derrocha estilo propio en su diario… y edita su propia revista. Opción Bio: Elsa y Vicky dedican su espacio a promover un consumo más responsable y alternativas para ser más respetuosos con el medioambiente. Slow Fashion Spain: Gema Gómez es la mayor precursora de la moda sostenible en España. Green Style Blog: Livia Firth (en un primer momento conocida por ser la mujer de Colin Firth) es bloguera en Vogue UK y habla de moda sostenible.
Ecouterre: referencia indispensable en noticias de moda sostenible. Ecosalon: cultura y moda con conciencia. Ser Sustentável com Estilo. Wrap - Welcome. Knitting to Stay Sane | Challenging myself, one stitch at a time. Fw: Fotos - monicabg1951 - Gmail. Success: Product Photography for Beginners. Learning how to take great photos is one of the most important things you can do to improve your Etsy shop. Since prospective customers can’t see or touch your item in person, photos communicate an item’s beauty and important qualities. Beautiful photos will also help your items to be featured both on and off of Etsy. Luckily, taking great photos is a skill that you can learn! If you look at the early sold items of many sellers with wonderful pictures, you’ll see that they started just where you are now.
We hope this video helps you on your photo-improvement journey! Make sure to go slowly while reworking your photos; try re-doing just a few per week. Be sure to check out our other photography resources and let us know about your progress and any questions that you have in the Etsy Success forum! Seller Handbook | Quit Your Day Job Series. 50 Free Wordpress Plugins to Boost Your Blog. If you have a WordPress blog, you will know that plugins are an essential part of creating a customized experience for your readers, making maintenance easier, and amplifying your voice. From installing elegant slide shows to backing up your blog, keeping things going takes research and work. When I first started blogging, I loved plugins so much installing everything that tickled my fancy, these days after installing too many and slowing down my site, I’ve learned to pick only the necessary. Here’s a list of plugins you can use for your blog.
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Página Principal. DecoriaLab www.decorialab.it. Downloadable Knitting Patterns - Chic Knits FALL 2012 - Chic Knits Knitting Patterns Designed by Bonne Marie Burns. St-Denis Yarns. St-Denis Yarns was founded in 2009 by Veronik Avery, a knitwear designer. Her sister-in-law, Monique Jeannin joined her in 2010 and together they sell and distribute a line of yarn all their own under the name of St-Denis (which also happens to be Veronik's maternal surname). Knitwear designer Robin Melanson completes the team with her unparalled talent and technical proficiency. The first yarn launched by St-Denis was Nordique, a sport weight pure wool in an extensive palette, spun and sourced in the United States. It was soon joined by Boreale, its fingering weight cousin, also available in the same colours. These yarns are the embodiment of our philosophy - to produce yarns which are the equivalent to an artist's paint box, and to do so in a fair and ethical manner.
You will also find a variety of yarns and notions we love for sale on our web site. Our magazine is published bi-annnually and features about 16 patterns from several designers, including several from Veronik. Feral Knitter. Knitting Letters : A to Z: bohus. I’m breaking with my established pattern and the usual sequencing of the alphabet by looking back at one of my first posts and updating it. I suspect that once I’ve finished the abecedarium (extended with typographical symbols, of course), I will probably revisit several letters, but this one has asserted itself as a priority. I wrote last January about Bohus Stickning, and have finally had the very great pleasure of experiencing Susanna Hansson’s Bohus Stickning class (courtesy of Stitches East, held in Baltimore earlier this month).
I am now acutely aware of how much more there is to say on the subject and how much I need to correct in my earlier post. Susanna’s class was so wonderful and there is much to report on it alone, so this post will be less a result of musing on general research and more an appreciation for a really gratifying learning experience. News Flash: Fox News 9 coverage: “Historic Swede Sweaters on Display” More, more, more Radiant Knits Exhibition Information. Crochet Coral Reef. What Is Knit Theory? Black Dog Designs. AbbreviationsKFB an increase made by knitting into the front and back of the same st. BackUsing 8mm (US 11) needles, CO 80 sts and work 1 row in K1, P1 rib.Next row (RS) PNext row KRep these two rows until piece meas approx 13 cm (19 k rows), ending with a P row facing.
Shape bodyNext row P3, P2tog, P to last 5 sts, P2tog tbl, P3Rep this row every 8 (or so) rows until 5 sts have been dec’d per side (10 total sts)… 70 sts Change to smaller needles and cont in reverse stocking st for 12 rows. Shape armholesCast off 4 sts at beg of next two rows… 62 stsDec 1 st at end of next 6 rows… 50 stsCont straight for 42 rows, ending with a P side facing.Cast off all sts in K st Begin shaping armhole AT THE SAME TIME as you’re shaping the v-neck. Begin neck shapingNext row P to last 2 sts, P2togNext row KRep these two rows 3 times more – or until you’ve worked 15 P rows (in total) from when you changed needles. Knitting Letters : A to Z: T is for Turkey. T is for Turkey, and as far as I’m concerned, there simply is no other T imaginable.
This post has been a long time coming, but I don’t mean for its lengthiness to be a way of making up for my silence. I have very close, fond feelings about this remarkable country, and there is just so much to write! I spent seven formative years there as a child, beginning with my family’s first stay when I was four. We were delighted to return twelve years later, and ever since, Turkey has been in my experience and imagination the dream place of color: peerless hospitality, indescribably delicious fruit (and food in general, really), dreamy poppy fields, otherworldly landscapes, and a perpetual harvest of delightful and magnificent textiles made by talented, inspired artists.Turkish textiles are simply extraordinary—sumptuous, exquisite, complex—as is very well known.
Turkish textile culture is a rich, rich field. Kenan Özbel’s book, Türk köylü çorapları, was first published in 1976. Strolling. Knitting Letters : A to Z: B is for Bohus. Bohus StickningImportant note: I have updated much of the information below with a new post! A Swedish knitting cooperative in operation from 1939 to 1969. The knitters developed a distinctive style that makes use of sophisticated colorwork, especially in combining color with knit/purl changes. So many wonderful thoughts have been written about Bohus and Bohus-style knitting.
I don’t have much new insight to offer, but it’s really the only knitted “B” I can contemplate. And if you look at the patterns in just the right way, B’s do start to emerge. Most Bohus Stickning garments were knit from blended angora/wool yarn and were knit at 8.5 or more stitches to the inch. The most famous Bohus designs are yoked cardigans. And of course, there is the compelling prospect of being lucky enough to take Susanna Hansson’s class on Bohus Stickning. I saw my first photo of Bohus knitting when I read Margaret Bruzelius’s piece in the Threads compilation, Knitting Around the World. Knitting Letters : A to Z. Knitting Letters : A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil. Not trefoil, not cinquefoil, but quatrefoil, the architectural equivalent of a four-leaf clover. I want to thank Dee D and Carrie K for this most excellent thematic suggestion. In English, the letter Q rarely appears alone, but the OED has of course tracked down innumerable instances, one of which I find oddly compelling: “Q in the corner. . . a person who or thing which sits in the corner, one who is unnoticed or unimportant; also as a (self-mocking or self-effacing) pseudonym.”
Perhaps Q’s queue is always off getting into other people’s business, leaving him to hide in the corner? The letterpress landscape is littered with Qs: quad (short for quadrat), quoin, quarto, quire, question & quotation marks, even quadrata (Roman inscriptional capitals, of which I am particularly fond). With such a rich field of possibilities, it was difficult to settle on just one, but the quatrefoil is so delectable! Diversions Texelia Typographica et ArchitecturaYes, it exists: the quatrefoil font! P.S. Knitting Letters : A to Z: R is for Red Letters. Lively, assertive, challenging, alluring, frightening, gorgeous, shocking. Red is all that and so much more. So utterly central, this primary of primary colors contradicts and unifies, attracts and repels, radiates and absorbs.
It symbolizes life and death, transgressions and sanctity, luck and doom. It’s virtually impossible to feel ambivalent about red. You either love it or you hate it. I love it, and I hope you do, too. Red letters represent red’s contradictory personae particularly well. Shift slightly from red letters in a general sense to scarlet letters, and the meaning changes entirely. Red DyeAlizarin, carmine, red ochre, vermilion...we have many natural and chemical reds at our disposal for dyeing, painting, tinting, and basically painting any town red (there’s a nice etymology for that phrase, by the way). Cochineal’s vivid red was so remarkable, so sought-after that it drove major global markets, supported economies, and made red the ultimate symbol of power and wealth.
Knitting Letters : A to Z: S for Suzani. S is for suzani, but also for silk road and ’stans (as in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan). An essential form of embroidery in Central Asia, the suzani has grown out of a rich textile tradition that dates to the time of the medieval silk road trade, and continues today to represent essential concepts of home, hearth, and female kinship.I first learned the word suzani when my parents came back from a Central Asian adventure in 1994. At the time, they were the only people I had known to have encountered the ’stans firsthand. My mother’s big acquisition on the trip was a suzani, which she found in Uzbekistan, and which inevitably became known as “Susanne’s suzani.”
So I have always tied the suzani very closely to my mother, not only because her name seems to have drawn her to it, but because as a textile cognoscente(a?) , she loves it, and so do I. For Suzani Collectors Suzanis in the Interior Design MarketVenetian Red’s blog entry Knitting & Suzanis. Mug Magazine, Fashion, Design, Lifestyle & more. Crush Cul de Sac. The Lost World watercolor patterns on Behance. Deborah Cross Home. Oska » Santa Fe Dry Goods. MKK: Archive. Handknit cardi coat ash knitwear cotton polyamide measyou spring summer 2012. ART KNITS – DESIGN BY CHRISTEL SEYFARTH, FANØ – DENMARK. Warriston. January one: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together. We are knitters | WE ARE KNITTERS. THE ART OF LOOKING AKHA | EZISTOCK Blog. Design Tools | Pattern People | Surface Design + Inspiration. Ithilien Brocade chart | The Prairie Spinner. Gallerist - Blog & Shop - Gallerist.
Bloc de Moda: Noticias sobre moda, fashion, diseño de autor, desfiles, zapatos, carteras. Hand Knitted Things: Channel Island Cast On. About. Knitting Yarn Goes Green With Knitted Market Bags | KnittingYarn.com. Artisans: Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan KMVS. Artisans: Ajrakh Blockprinters. Flint Knits. Ecotece.org.br/blog/ 10 pasos para comunicar #modasostenible : Backstage Ladies. †CAHIER DE STYLE† †NOELIA TERRON-LAYA† The Sarah Lund jumper - the original. Somos lo que vestimos. Slow Fashion. | Bossa. Illustration Now: Shishi Yamazaki. Lara Costafreda. Dances with Wools | knitting, spinning, dyeing, and related fiber arts. Free Knitting Patterns Community. Leaf Yoke Top | Knititude. Mulheres (e homens!) se reúnem para tricotar em São Paulo | | GarotaPrendada.com | The Sweatshop of Love. AS TRAMAS DE MILADY. Grupo Primavera. Quinta trends: La relocalización de la moda: el regreso a casa. Crochet. TENTHOUSANDTHINGS | NYC. Manifesto da lã | Tricoteiras. TRAMAS DEL SUR - TEJIDOS ARTESANALES.
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