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Yarn covered earphones

18 Jan

My friend Holes showed me this ace thing that she had seen over on Pinterest. Yarn wrapped earphones. Genius.

Not only does this little project make your earphones look way awesome, but it also stops the little blighters from getting all knotted up – HURRAH!
It’s like a revolution in not-driving-precariously-whilst-untangling-small-wires all the time. You just tie the yarn in a series of knots around the wires like you’re doing a hair braid. I used some self-patterning sock yarn for these and they took approximately 2 episodes of Madmen to complete. Brills.

Before:

After:

Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2012

18 Jan

I will have work up on show at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair all of this weekend. The fair starts on Thursday 19th with an opening reception from 7-9pm. The show will then be open from 11am – 7pm every day until closing at 6pm on Sunday 22nd.

As with all these outrageously exciting art whatnots, I will not be in attendance in favour of the old grind at home – bah! In my mind it is going to be pretty much exactly like an episode of Beverley Hills 90210. I Googled it – they’re only 20 minutes up the road and everything!
It’s probably just as well that I’m not going. I wouldn’t have anything to wear anyway…

Willow Christmas Wreath tutorial

17 Dec

Here is a clever thing that my sister-in-law (outdoorsy type) showed me. Making wreaths is a quick and easy little craft which is EXCELLENT for making cheap-as-chips little crimbo presents – WOO-HOO!!

Here is an example that I made out of willow for my Mother-In-Law, who is what I would like to describe as a “wreath fan” if ever there was one.

Here’s a little tutorial for good measure too :)

These examples have been made out of dog wood:

Lovely.

Yarn Bombing for the Totterdown Arts Trail

8 Dec

Check out these pictures of the yarn bombing near my house that was done for this year’s Totterdown Arts Trail - YAY!
I may or may not have had something to do with this…

The arts trail was like some kind of knitting spectacular this year and there were bits of knitting popping up all over the place – lots of which is still there, which is lovely!

There is a whole knitted trail running through the Arnos Vale Cemetery nearby which is rather marvellous and is still there now if you fancy a wander round…
More info on that can be found here.

Holy moly, I LOVE living here!

Jet’s Advent calendar in Simply Knitting magazine!

7 Nov

The pattern for Jet’s advent calendar that I made last year (as can be seen here) has been featured in the ‘Festive Gifts’ supplement of November 2011′s Simply Knitting magazine!

BRILLO!

I felt like a minor knitting celebrity when I went to the wool shop over the weekend – but then I was a bit bummed to see that they didn’t actually have the magazine up on the shelves (probably all sold out, eh?). I am sure they sussed me out as being a rubbish amateur anyway when I ended up having to ask a variety of obvious yarn based questions - damnit!

Check out the photography on the magazine compared to the pics I took originally here. I guess they liked the style, but didn’t want to have to pay me for the photos – It took me ages to notice they weren’t the same ones!
(weird!)

Simple toddler leg warmers pattern

7 Nov

Brrrrrrrrrr, it’s been getting a bit chilly round here of late!
I knitted Jet these new leg warmers to go with her new winter cardi (which I didn’t even nearly knit and bought from John Lewis instead).  They knitted up during three evening’s of loafing on the sofa watching Mad Men – what could be better?

I think knitting small people leg warmers might become addictive – it requires a good level of brainlessness for me and is quick enough for you to see the rewards before you get bored (my kind of knitting!).
Simple pattern below…

(Highly Basic) Pattern:

You will need:
4mm DPNS/circular needle or 4mm straight needles
Aran(ish) weight yarn in dark grey (MC), light grey (CC1) and pink  (CC2)
Needle to weave in the ends.

Pattern fits someone small – maybe 18months-3years or something.

DPN/circular needle method:
CO 42 sts in MC and join to the round
Work in 1×1 rib for 10 rows
K 5 rows
Change to CC1 and K 2 rows
Change to MC and K 1 row
[K1 MC, K1 CC2] for 1 row
Change to MC and K 1 row
Change to CC1 and K 1 row
Change to MC and K 1 row
[K1 MC, K1 CC2] for 1 row
Change to MC and K 1 row
Change to CC1 and K 2 rows
Change to MC and work for a further 12cm
Work in 1×1 rib for 10 rows
BO
Make another, weave in ends and you’re done!

Straight needle method:
CO 42 sts in MC
Work in 1×1 rib for 10 rows
work in stocking stitch for 5 rows (and continue in St st until told otherwise!)
Change to CC1 and work 2 rows
Change to MC and work 1 row
[K1 MC, K1 CC2] for 1 row
Change to MC and P 1 row
Change to CC1 and K 1 row
Change to MC and P 1 row
[K1 MC, K1 CC2] for 1 row
Change to MC and P 1 row
Change to CC1 and work 2 rows
Change to MC and work for a further 12cm
Work in 1×1 rib for 10 rows
BO
Make another, sew up seams to make a tube, weave in ends and you’re done!

- Marvellous!

Visit London – Licensing Awards 2011 finalist!

12 Oct

Look lively people – this may have happened almost a whole month ago, but I was lording it up in the sunshine on my holidays then, so I didn’t know anything about it…
Turns out that the Visit London range that I worked on for Half Moon Bay last year was a finalist in this year’s Licensing Awards – how marvellous!! The products I worked on included giftware, stationery and apparel for the “Official London Merchandise”.
The brand was included in the Best Licensed Giftware category. It didn’t actually win the award, but that is a technicality – pipped to the post by ‘Nerdy’ Hello Kitty (how very dare she!).

You can see the full range of product here.

Cube Gallery, Marylebone, London Town

30 Sep

The Cube Gallery in Bristol (who are my saviours when it comes to the artsy fartsy world) are opening a new gallery in London’s lovely Marylebone as of this weekend. I’ve got some work up to show in there alongside pieces by: Peter Monaghan, Katie Allen, Rachael Nee and various other clever beans.

The new Cube Gallery can be found  here. How Marvellous!

Woodland Nursery design details

18 Sep

I did write a post about Jet’s nursery a while ago, here. Those pics all look a bit sparse nowadays as they were taken before the smalls had even arrived. I guess we didn’t even know if she was going to be a girl or a boy then, so things were kept pretty neutral on purpose. I’m not so much of a girly girl myself, so the pink frilliness has been kept to a minimum whilst that sort of thing is still under my control!
I’ve been meaning to do a little update with some of  my favourite details around the room – so here we are with a bit of extra info:


Cot: Stokke, stripe rug: Ikea


Wall stickers: cut from baize from the hardware shop, birdhouse: Asda – £4!


Ceramic tile: Rob Ryan on Etsy


Painting from the marvellous Nick Sharratt!


Fabric and wood mobile handmade from pattern here.


Alphabet print by yours truly .


The Smalls in situ. Grass rug with mushrooms: Vertbaudet (squee!) Log cushions: Deena Neimat (you gotta love those cushions!)


Daddy in situ and the egg chair I recovered with patchwork (NEVER AGAIN!).

White Entomology

15 Sep

We are holding an open weekend where I work at BV Studios next month from the 14th-16th October. More details on that to follow – but here are some pics I have of a couple of pieces I will be showing over the weekend…

 

 

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