Got up crazy early last Saturday to take a class at KnitNation. It was with Chrissy Gardiner and it was my last go at learning to knit socks; if this didn’t get me on the road, nothing would!
Fortunately Chrissy is a great teacher – and gets extra points for being a great teacher, even whilst being jet-lagged – and so we learnt Judy’s Magic Cast On, how to knit two socks at once on a single cable needle, to do a short row heel and a super stretchy cast off.
I was all inspired about knitting again and saw in the latest issue of Twist Collective this fabulous – free! – pattern by Pam Allen, Tern. It looks great, is interesting enough to keep your attention, but not too complex that you end up with a scrunched up face trying to concentrate – all win.
Went to the opening of loop’s new location in Camden Passage yesterday. It’s a fabulous place for it, with 3 floors of space with tons of natural light. Sounds like they’d had a busy morning too; with over 150 people queueing as they opened the doors!
I’d been after these buttons since the second Juju sent over the photos!. Even if I had nothing to sew them to, they are so pretty to look at and satisfyingly tactile to hold in your hand in their own right, I could imagine myself just having them in my pocket to play with…
In any case they have been bought to go on the February lady Cardi. What I didn’t realise was that on one side is dark wood, the other is light so you can flip them over and use them whichever way looks better. Susan said they reminded her of American artist Rex Ray, but I reckon they also have a touch of the – swoons – Charlie Harper about them 
How come Twist Collective has so many great patterns each issue?? I already want to cast on two sweaters (Ormolu for me, Tanit’s Jacket for my mum… if anyone with nothing better to do, needed to knit me Sabbatical or Kirigami, I’d be a grateful recipient!*) and I’ve only just skimmed through the Winter issue…
I’m also giving myself (another) last chance at learning how to knit two socks at once; have just signed up for Chrissy’s class at KnitNation in July… I really want to knit socks, I just can’t bear the thought of doing one at a time – I even get second sleeve syndrome!
*just trying my luck…
You’ll be in for a big surprise…Treehouses! in Regent’s Park! With loads of artsy / crafty / bonkers stuff going on… for OO.OOp! Have booked myself in to do some woodcut-ing and monoprinting…yay!
The TreeHouse Gallery has set up camp - some in actual trees! – by the boating lake, and is running workshops, talks and activities all summer… It may actually be aimed at children, but I don’t care .
Go check it out; it’s there until 6th September, when there’s ‘A rambunktious cornucopia of song, dance, games, tree climbing, feasting, sloshing and swilling to celebrate the culmination of 8 weeks of TreeHouse dwelling and activity in Regent’s Park’
From The Londonist:
Matthew Robins makes animated stories and will be presenting his ‘Shadow Operas’ featuring Flyboy.
New episodes from the series will be shown on Fridays, performed in front of and projected onto the National Theatre Flytower, followed by a double-bill of Robins’ work on Saturdays. For the double-bill on Saturday 15 August, he needs knitted dinosaurs for a new show scheduled for that night – because the show is about dinosaurs and knitting.
More information about the shows; PDF of Mathew Robins’ reques for Dinos.
As seen in the Londonist:
Matthew Robins makes animated stories and will be presenting his ‘Shadow Operas’ featuring Flyboy.
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New episodes from the series will be shown on Fridays, performed in front of and projected onto the National Theatre Flytower, followed by a double-bill of Robins’ work on Saturdays.
For the double-bill on Saturday 15 August, he needs knitted dinosaurs for a new show scheduled for that night – because the show is about dinosaurs and knitting.
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More information about the shows; Mathew Robins’ request for Dinos (you might even win a prize!).
I remember a while back reading about a woman sending out words from her book to be tattooed on willing participants… This is a whole lot less painful! The Poetry Society is celebrating it’s centeneray this year, and they are asking for volunteers to knit a letter each of a peom to be revealed at the end of the year…
Ok, so it’s no longer February but the Lady Sweater is still in progress… I may be the only one at knitting group today but standards musn’t slip… I subconciously must know this as F.L.S’s yarn colour matches my dress 
Finished, but I cocked up the ribbed collar.
Think it must be my misunderstanding the instructions, as no-one else seems to had the same problem from what I can see.
What do other people understand by ‘keeping rib correct’?
My increases came in the middle of a knit bit of rib, so I made the increased stitch a knit stitch too ie; pp k(k increase)k pp…
Anyhow, not so fussed that I’d re-knit it, and love the jumper anyhow; v soft and perfect size – all slouchy and cuddly
The annual Southwyck Christmas party went well yesterday; caught up with a lot of friends I haven’t seen in a while, ate and drank in a festive fashion, and even had an unprompted singalong!.
This year’s theme was to make a paperchain to be strung in the living room; each person contributing a link decorated and made however they wanted out of whatever they wanted. If people couldn’t be there yesterday, the link acted as Christmas card and they sent them along in the post. There were some fabulous ones made including the prerequisite one with cotton-ball snow, a sewn fabric one containing dried lavender, a möbius loop one from a scientific uncle (heh) and lovely crocheted link with a dangly snowball pompom! This one I confiscated from the chain and wore..
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