NEW BLOG
Hi everyone! I've moved my blog over here! It's been a good run here at Blogger, but the time to move on was upon me.
Hope you like the new site!
Hi everyone! I've moved my blog over here! It's been a good run here at Blogger, but the time to move on was upon me.
Hope you like the new site!
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Thanks to a Google + mishap which deleted most of my older photos from my posts,
I'll be moving my blog over to a new provider... stay tuned for details!
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The cat's out of the bag! I've been bursting at the seams to blog about the exciting opportunity to work with Jared Flood's company Brooklyn Tweed and his yarn, SHELTER. Months ago, Jared contacted me via e-mail to see if I would be interested in such a thing. To see if I would be INTERESTED?!?! Before I could regain my composure, I did a snoopy dance of excitement, ran up to yell the good news to my husband (so confused, poor thing) and ran back down to sit in front of my laptop to reply. It took all of my willpower to write something that didn't make me sound like a:
1. Stalker
2. Desperate-o
3. Drooling idiot.
As things progressed and I started to think about what I would design, my thoughts shot all over the place. Immediately, I thought cables. This yarn just screams cables. And then I thought, it would have to be an accessory, a cowl or tam of some sort. Then, it was a jacket - tweed calls for a jacket, right? Right?! I was slowly losing it, and losing a lot of sleep.
Then, I started to inquire and learned about some of the other knitters who would be taking part in this project. I don't think I have ever felt so insecure in my life. I kept thinking that the company I would be in would surely dwarf any attempt at a design I could conjure up.
I sketched and swatched and slowly I realized I had to approach this design in a totally different way. I had been used to being inspired by a yarn, or something I had seen on someone on the street. I would just go and grab a yarn from my stash, and swatch away. With SHELTER, I was not only representing myself and my thoughts on knitwear, but a company - Brooklyn Tweed. I wanted not only my aesthetic to come through, but also what the company has always stood for, and what the yarn represented. I suppose some artists would think that would be a compromise of their creative integrity. For me, it was a way to focus my creative energy and conversely create outside of my usual box. My boundaries and horizons had to shift.
So I made a list of what I thought were the similarities between Brooklyn Tweed and me. This is what I came up with:
1. Wearable
2. Complimentary to a variety of sizes and figures
3. Unintimidating to knit
4. Fun to knit.
Voila, the Perry Cardigan was born.
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I love using socks, baby sweaters and gifts as a way to knit with color I otherwise wouldn't use. Yes, I love neutrals. Yes, I'm made fun of by most of the people I know. So when the occasional bright color(s) catches my eye (and literally falls off the shelf into my hands), the unending commentary from my buddies at Knitty City start swirling about. "Wow, what are YOU going to use that for?" "You're finally branching out!" "It's about time - give up those grays!" Most of the time, I don't have the heart to tell them it's for someone other than myself. But here it goes: those two skeins of Plaid Blanket I bought? It was for a baby sweater.
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My heart broke yesterday morning. I sat down at my laptop and started reading through my e-mails when I came to one from a dear friend. Her mother had just passed away. I met this friend through knitting. We met at the back table at Knitty City and our friendship developed over the past year as we started talking yarn and fiber, and moved onto our careers and dreams. Her mother had come to stay with her for a month late last year, and I was lucky enough to spend some quality time with her. We talked knitting, shared found projects on ravelry and passed along tips to one another. I had assumed that my friend's mother had taught my friend how to knit. But, I had it wrong. My friend had taught her mother, and she was instantly addicted. She was known to finish lengthy projects in record time, and never a piece for herself. She constantly passed along her beautiful knits to friends' newborns and her daughter.
I feel lucky to have been able to meet her, and even luckier to have been a recipient of one of her knitted gifts.
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