Showing posts with label Shawl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shawl. Show all posts

Monday 21 September 2020

A Shawl for my sister

My sister is going through some personal difficulties and deserves all the love we can provide. She desires her privacy so I thought I'd knit her a shawl.
 
I found a pattern 'Flowers of Traken' on Ravelry and couldn't resist. Along with the beauty of the pattern her oldest is a Dr Who fan and this is a reference to one of the episodes.

I had some beautiful alpaca and silk in red....perfect..


Here it is, all bloked, just before I unpinned it and sent it off. 


 

Saturday 22 January 2011

Isn't January a funny time?

You think you have all this time to catch up with projects, jobs, friends, exhibitions and well....you find things half done. So, I've started quite a few things, but haven't really finished much.

I did finish this though:

I know, it's another shawl, but if you look closely, it's a new pattern and one I'm really happy with. It consists of actually picking up fabric and hooking it onto the knitting machine and continuing knitting, creating a fabric that moves and is more three dimensional. There is a first one, but it disappeared at Rose St. very quickly. It was beautiful in a really gorgeous cream cotton that I only had enough for one.

The other reason that I like it, is that this one seems to represent another step. I've been doing alot of machine knitting, but it's not something that I have ever done alot of, except, of course, when I had to learn how to use the machine, an intense 6 months. The shawl represents, for the first time a style that I feel reflects my aesthetic and a more professional approach to mistakes, and a more capable ability for fix mistakes.

It's as I've often said, the test of a skilled and professional person is not how well they do the work, but how well they deal with the mistakes.

I feel happy to have reached this milestone.

And, I did manage to go and see an exhibition: West Africa: Rhythm and Spirit at the Immigration Museum. Well worth seeing, as are most of the exhibitions at this lovely Museum. This particular exhibition is worthwhile just to see the two minute film showing a group of men and boys weaving. Breathtaking!