Photograph Your Knitting – 24th April 2009
April 11th, 2009 § 3 Comments
Announcing our very first Photograph Your Knitting afternoon from 4pm onwards to about 8pm on Friday 24th April for everyone who blogs, uses Ravelry.com, scrapbooks or otherwise documents their yarny craftwork.
Bring your hats, socks, cardies, your crochet, your yarn and rovings, your finished and unfinished objects, and we’ll do a pro- photoshoot, using our No 7 studio assistant and each other as models.
We will also show you how to get the best out of your own digital camera.
Things to bring:
• your own camera (if you have one)
• a memory card, stick or CD
• your garments and yarns
We’ll provide tea and coffee, choc biccies, and there’ll also be something like a bowl of home made pasta or soup for people coming along after work.
Getting here is easy.
This is a new thing for us, so it’s all a bit of an experiment, A donation of say £5 each including supper seems about right though. If you are skint (and let’s face it, who isn’t?) we can definitely sort something out.
If you feel you want to help out, please let me know. I’ll do free places for the first two to offer.
Does that sound like a plan?
The Cabin Attendant
April 7th, 2009 § 7 Comments
liked the colour and was impressed by the speed with which the project took off (pun intended, sorry!).
Inspiration is in fact everywhere. On the outbound flight I was quite overwhelmed by the colours of Transavia… haha! On the homebound flight I could have sold lots of slinky, green scarfs to the lovely female cabin attendents. They would have been a perfect match for their uniforms.
This is a nice project for travelling – I brought only 2 bamboo double pointed needles and a ball of wonderful green Marinella Sea Silk (a gift from my friend Susan).
You will need:
2½ mm needles – circular, straight or double pointed, whatefer you prefer will be fine
3 mm crochet hook
Approximately 320 meters of fingering weight yarn. (I used a total of 52 grammes of Marinella from Lulu’s Yarns)
The construction:
A long narrow piece of knitted lace with a crocheted border.
The instructions:
Cast on 23 stitches, knit 1 row, purl 1 row.
Knit the following pattern:
Row 1: K1 (edge) *K3, YO, K3tog, YO*, K3 (balances the pattern), K1 (edge)
Row 2: Purl 1 row
Row 3: K1 (edge) *YO, K3tog, YO, K3*, YO, K3tog, YO (balances the pattern), K1 (edge)
Row 4: Purl 1 row
and repeat until the length is suitable for a scarf. The length of my scarf is equal to my height.
Bind off loosely, but DO NOT break the yarn.
Grab a crochet needle and start crocheting the border. Two double crochets (UK) through each of the lacy holes along the sides of the scarf is suitable.
Remember to make an extra double crochet at each corner.
When you start working the second round you must remember to crochet through the back loop of the stitch below! This will make the border quite elastic and at a glance you would think it was knitted on.
I made 4 rounds before finishing the scarf.
Does that all make sense? It’s a recipe – make it your own! You can replace the lace with any kind you like, you can replace the border, you can use any yarn you have in your stash, you can even use that colour that you’re not really sure about – it might just be great as a slinky scarf!
As always, please let us know how you go!
Added on April 10th 2009:
I’ve made a diagram of the lace pattern.
Added on June 4th 2009:
After reading this thread on Ravelry I have edited the pattern instructions above and included the pattern chart to make it easier to follow. Hope it helps ;-)
