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Salty Knits. Boogie Socks | I want to put on…My – My – My – Boogie Socks… Sensational Knitted Socks KAL. Free Knitting Patterns For Socks. Catherine Lowe. Ideaphoria: <b>MY INTRODUCTION TO COUTURE KNITTING</b> I've spent the past four days in a very intensive workshop taught by Catherine Lowe. (It was two workshops, really -- the first two days were the "Basics of Couture Knitting," and the second two days were "Designer Details. " But there was enough building of skills and information based on what happened one and two days before, that I'm just going to call it one workshop.) Before going to the workshop, I didn't know very much about Catherine Lowe. I knew the pattern she has in Scarf Style: I had read this pattern pretty closely at one time, thinking that I might make this wrap. But if you look at the photograph, and read the pattern, you realize that the wrap is all garter stitch.
So, what gives? It has to do with Catherine Lowe's unique vision for garment design. I'd been studying this pattern late last summer and in early fall, thinking it might be something to wear for the holiday party season. Catherine said, "It is a lot of knitting. Back at home that night, I looked up the pattern. Ideaphoria: <b>LOWE WORKSHOP, CONTINUED</b> Catherine Lowe's instructions for preparing our swatches very specifically stated that we were to knit our swatches in DK weight wool to a gauge of 6 stitches and 8 rows per inch. (In all of the knitting classes I've taken, I've never had to knit homework swatches to meet a particular gauge, so this was very unusual.)
I'd started out on a size US 6 needle, and when my knitting was coming out at 5 stitches per inch, I actually ripped out the first swatch I knitted, and changed up to a US 7 to get what I thought would be gauge. I always think of myself as a tight knitter. So in the evening after Day 1 of the workshop, when my swatches finished out to 6-1/2 stitches per inch, I wanted to revisit that assumption I have about myself being a tight knitter. I was a little concerned that Catherine Lowe might come around with a ruler and measure our swatches, but not so concerned that I bothered to re-knit them. In fact, Catherine did not measure my or anybody else's swatches. Heirloom Knitting - Welcome to fine Shetland lace knitting, trad. Editorial spring 06. The history of knitting is mostly a big mystery, guessed at from fragments kept in museums around the world.
Knitting is made of wool, silk, and other fibers that decay rapidly, even under perfect conditions; knitting needles are essentially sharpened sticks, and hard to identify as knitting needles beyond a doubt; they could be hair picks, skewers, spindles, or any of the other zillion uses there are for a sharpened stick. In the past, when spinning was all by hand and much more time-consuming, many sweaters that didn't fit were raveled and re-knit. Yarn wasn't discarded until it wore out. Add in that not many people in the past thought to save their everyday items for their descendants, and there aren't many useful knitted objects left for us to find, all these years later.
Once in a while we get lucky. The archeological evidence we have is very interesting, and there are other ways to date things. Linguistically, all evidence implies that knitting is a fairly recent invention. Lace Titles from Schoolhouse Press. Yarn Harlot. Jamieson's Shetland Wool Knitting Yarns (Spindrift, DK, Heather. Jamieson's - The Original Shetland Wool! Camilla Valley Farm is pleased to offer Jamieson's 100% pure Shetland wool yarn spun in the company's own mill in the Shetland Islands north of the Scottish mainland for over a century.
In a world where large corporations produce many products we buy, we are proud to support this small company, owned and operated in the Shetland Islands, that continues to produce the best Shetland Wool knitting yarn while promoting the work of the local sheep farmers and employing local Shetland Islanders to turn fleece into yarn! The fleece of the native Shetland Sheep used in Jamieson's wool has a soft resilient texture which has developed over the centuries to protect them from the extreme weather conditions of their northern home. Jamieson's Shetland Wool is renowned by knitters world-wide for its unique texture. This real Shetland Wool is produced from Shetland Sheep living on the Shetland Islands and spun in a Shetland Islands Mill by Shetland Islanders!
Historic Knitting Patterns. Scottish Textiles Heritage Online. Author: Catriona Baird, Project Survey and Documentation Officer Sold to Scotland by Norway in 1469, the Shetland Isles lie 200 miles north of mainland Scotland; Fair Isle is the southernmost of these islands. The rugged landscape is the habitat of the Shetland sheep, a hardy breed which produces good quality hardwearing fleece in all shades of grey and brown. This fleece provides the wool for the island’s knitting tradition. Fair Isle knitting, as it became known, was popular all over Shetland by about 1910 and had first been produced in Fair Isle in the mid 19th century.
Fair Isle knitting is produced in the round, traditionally on three needles or ‘wires’ which are pointed at both ends. The distinctive Fair Isle patterning involves horizontal bands of small repeating motifs and shapes in bright colours. Many theories abound as to the source of the Fair Isle knitting patterns, including that the patterning was taught to Shetlanders by shipwrecked Spanish sailors. Men Who Knit | Promoting and inspiring the art of knitting among. Links on "Knitting Iceland" Lolly Knitting Around » Peru. SistahCraft : From Denmark To Africa, With Love. Lego, For Knitters As an artisan, I have often felt that the world is just one big cross-cultural reference book, with everyone contributing to and appropriating from, each other. A sort of living, breathing, encyclopedia of patterns and objects. This allows us to "big up" the creative outpourings of our own cultural identities, while giving others the opportunities to learn the techniques, find inspiration, and discover shared stories.
A fantastic balance, to say the least. However, when profit enters the equation, things change. Descending from one such group, I admit that I was suspect about reviewing the book pictured above. I was not dissapointed! Marianne Isager is a Danish knitwear designer, whose clothing is a contemporary tribute to the rich, knitting heritage of her country. What It Is… (The fabrics shown, are from the collection of the Newark Museum. First, I'ma get my surface admiration on. How It's Done… Cultural Parallels and Challenges I had to smile. Regional Knitting in the British Isles & Ireland - Victoria and.
The British Isles and Ireland A number of areas have their own distinctive style of knitting or a particular garment for which they are known. Traditions like these tend to survive longer in outlying districts where there is less outside influence. Additionally, knitting was sometimes the only way in which the inhabitants of poor regions were able to earn money. It was a craft that needed little equipment and a skill that could be passed down the generations and was, at times, practised by men and women alike. Since the late 19th century, hand-knitted items of clothing like the Aran jumper have been valued for their individuality over mass-produced, machine-knitted items. Shetland Shetland is a group of islands north of the Scottish mainland. Shawl, 1935. By the beginning of the 18th century the islanders were trading hosiery in exchange for money and goods from Dutch and German merchants.
Fair Isle Fair Isle sock, about 1969. The early knitters produced stockings, caps and scarves. Knitting Circles. FOREWORD. This publication includes two studies “Lithuanian Gloves in Lithuania Minor: Local Culture in the European Context” by R. Merkienė and “Fancy-works of Klaipėda area women: Gloves” by M. Pautieniūtė-Banionienė. R. Merkienė has accomplished her study thanks to the support provided by the Lithuanian Science and Studies Foundation. The work deals with a short history of glove making in the Baltic region, analysis of glove ornamentation in Klaipėda area and their links with the emotional outlook, artistic expression and technique of Lithuanians as well as the impact of other cultures. The work presents the main data on the Klaipėda area glove knitting traditions and bases it on the XVI–XXth century fiction, ethnographic material and manuscripts stored at the Ethnology Department of the Institute of the Lithuanian History.
The study by M. We would also like to thank workers of the Lithuanian National Museum Birutė Kulnytė, dr. Compiler. Ysolda. Contemporary Artists Embrace a "Radical" Tradition. In recent years, traditional handcrafts, particularly knitting, have experienced a boom and drawn a growing number of people of both genders, from children and teenagers to business executives and retirees. Novices and experienced craftspeople have discovered potentials in these crafts far beyond any utilitarian or artistic merit. These potentials include communal, intergenerational, therapeutic and spiritual. Numerous books and articles have been written, delving into the deeper meanings to be gleaned from the materials, processes, products and motivations of those who knit, crochet, quilt and otherwise work with fibre.
As a medium, cotton, wool, silk, linen and other fibres are remarkably strong and flexible. For ‘Untitled (Skulls)’ from 1999, Hildur Bjarnadóttir covered a wood table with a lacy tablecloth crocheted with cotton yarn. Bjarnadóttir's concern is with the power of ‘feminine craft’ freed from traditional confines. Cindi Di Marzo 1. Zoë's Knitting Bag: Swedish Mittens & Saturday Sky. I planned to post this entry last night but just as I was about to do so I realised that my camera battery needed charging. Sorry this is slightly late. Earlier this week these beautiful mittens arrived on their long journey from Sweden. The knitting is really exquisite- top quality Swedish craftsmanship. They were hand knitted by Beibritt Risberg using the Two Ended Knitting method*. This is a technique used really only in Sweden or Norway.
As I am tall and have long hands and fingers with a very large hand span, I always have a problem getting the fingers long enough in gloves. This is the reverse side. To see further details of this wonderful knitting, please look at Ulla-Britt's blog: Ulla-Britt. Nestling amongst the Hydrangeas. Amongst stones from the beach. * Two-ended knitting or tvoaandsstrickning is perfected by using both ends of a ball of yarn, alternating the ends with which you knit and twisting the two ends around each other between every stitch.
Donna Druchunas's Blog » Books I can't read. I’m happy to be part of the KnitGrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design blog tour. For my part in the tour, I decided to talk to author and designer Shannon Okey about ebooks. We had a very long and interesting discussion so I’ve broken into several blog posts. Here’s part 1. I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to come back tomorrow for more. DD: Shannon, welcome to my blog! What made you decide to offer The KnitGrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design as an ebook? SO: First and foremost, I completely sympathize with your traveling dilemma — when I lived abroad, it was exceedingly difficult to keep up with my usual reading volume. I specifically wanted to offer my new book, and all the other books my publishing company Cooperative Press is publishing, as ebooks, because I not only see it as a new direction in the publishing market, but also as a playing-field-leveler for smaller publishers.
SO: No, with a caveat. Check back tomorrow for part 2 of our discussion! Born to knit. The Argentimes | Voulez-vous crochet avec moi? Isca Morrismen Tradition - Monmouth Caps. Isca Morris TraditionMonmouth Caps The Isca Morris have a great respect for local history and tradition, both with their dances and also with their approach to the costumes that are worn. As part of their standard kit, the side wear green Monmouth Caps based on a sixteenth-century example in Monmouth Museum. This has seamless stocking stitch throughout, with a flat double brim knitted together at the edge, which continues into a loop and it is knitted in coarse, thick, 2-ply wool, felted, thickened and shorn.
These caps were once knitted in the county and are an example of one of the earliest surviving medieval knitted garments. It is known that in the first century A.D. round Coptic Caps were knitted in the south of England and these caps were almost certainly copied from those worn by the Coptic Christians who lived in North Africa. In the north-west corner of our dancing area, tucked under the Black Mountains in a loop of the Monnow, is an area known locally as 'Monmouth Cap'. Sanqhar Tolbooth. Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum Discover Sanquhar Knitting, a world famous tradition, The mines and miners of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel, the history and customs of the Royal Burgh of Sanquhar, three centuries of local literature, what life was like in Sanquhar jail, evidence of the earliest inhabitants of the area,native and Roman.
The everyday things of the people of Upper Nithsdale, at home and at work, community life in times past. All this can be found in the town's fine eighteenth century Tolbooth. Learning a swedish knitting tecnique in a japanese book at blog. FURTHER READING: The History of Knitting - Knitting History, web. Further Reading: Knitting History A small sample of the many books and articles relating to the history of knitting. It does not always represent the most up-to-date research and it is by no means exhaustive - there are just too many to mention! Those interested may wish to consult the comprehensive bibliography by Lesley O'Connell Edwards, whose assistance in compiling this list is gratefully acknowledged. Books:Bennet, Helen. Scottish Knitting (Shire Album 164). Articles:Blackman, Cally. Bibliography:O’Connell Edwards, Lesley A.
See also General Knitting Books. Back to Resources. Please note: mention of a webpage, book or article on Knitting History is not necessarily indicative of endorsement by the Knitting History Forum. KNC Knitting News: New Japanese Knitting Pattern Blog. Knitting News Cast Home » News New Japanese Knitting Pattern Blog The Japanese Knitting Pattern Blog is a resource for English speaking knitters who love Japanese knitting patterns.Japanese knitting patterns are gaining more popularity with English speaking knitters. However, the language barrier and the differences between knitting pattern instructions, knitting symbols, and knitting needle sizes, makes it difficult for English speaking knitters to knit the patterns.The Japanese Knitting Pattern blog hopes to help jump these hurdles and offer resources for knitters to translate patterns that they can knit.The blog covers such topics as:Japanese Knitting BooksFree Japanese Knitting PatternsJapanese Online BookstoresJapanese Knitting PatternsJapanese Knitting Symbols Labels: free knitting patterns, japanese knitting patterns Posted 11/28/2007 - New Japanese Knitting Pattern Blog Subscribe To Knitting News Get Knitting News By E-mail Favorite Knitting Books Recommended Podcasting Book How To Knit.
My Danish obsession. Ragga goes on about knitting. A Good Yarn: Knitting Blogs. An Andean Tradition: Knitting with Alpaca | ...en Perú - Travel. Downloadable Knitting Patterns from High Country Knitwear. Ravelry - a knit and crochet community. Fall 2006. KNITTING PATTERNS: Downloadable PDF Knitting Patterns by Jordana. Strickrezepte « Socks Street. Knithist.
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