tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59101307394337791532024-02-07T16:56:33.336-08:00Knit & DestroyKnitted accessories n that!Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-19675354581263619812016-04-21T06:53:00.003-07:002016-04-21T06:54:23.017-07:00The big move....<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This year will mark 10 years of knit and destroy (i know right, where did that go)! And up until this year, I have run everything to do with this from my house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I have often thought about having a studio elsewhere, daydreamed about what I could do with a space that wasn't inside my house but never even looked into it until late last year when I bumped into a friend who used to run a craft fair that I sold at and now runs her <a href="https://www.sarahwaterhouse.co.uk/" target="_blank">screen-printed textiles business</a> full-time! Seeing what she was doing with her practice made me think about the possibilities for my own work and what I could do if I took that brave step outside my house...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So why...what was wrong with that room in my house? Mostly that I really wanted to run workshops but couldn't do that from my spare bedroom studio, also, I like to change things up sometimes and felt like a new working environment would be good for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A few weeks after I moved into the studio, the opportunity to apply for a microgrant from <a href="http://artspace.org.uk/" target="_blank">Yorkshire Artspace</a> (the organisation who run the studios I am in) came up. It was also linked with the Sheffield year of making which was perfect, I'm all about the making! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Fast forward a month, and I have been awarded one of the micogrants, yay! This not only means that I will be able to get machine knitting workshops up and running this summer, but it also makes me feel moving to the studios was the right decision. </span></div>
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Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-8692561484653139222015-11-10T14:06:00.001-08:002015-11-10T14:06:04.943-08:00Crochet Confessions...<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As you can see, the name I chose for my label is knit and destroy. I am a knitter, and I love knitting...most of the time...but sometimes crochet is just better! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Most of my knitting is by machine, and I can find hand knitting slow and frustrating sometimes. It's great for certain things, I love my hand knitted mittens and my jumper (both done in double knit yarn, none of that thin faffy stuff), but for some projects crochet wins. Also, I find crochet more flexible as a process, easier to make it up as you go, and definitely better than knit for 3D pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For my 'tricks and treats' exhibition last year, I mixed machine knit and crochet, using crochet for the edging on my ouija board, as well as crocheting the candles that sat with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I use crochet for projects in <a href="http://sugarpapergang.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sugar Paper </a>zine quite a lot, with things from daisy chain glasses chains to binocular bags. I'm working on the solar system for the next issue of Sugar Paper right now, here's a work in progress shot...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I can't remember when I learnt to crochet, probably when I saw that amigurumi existed and I wanted to make them, but I'm glad I did. I'm also glad that other people did too. Some of my favourite artists who use textiles as their medium use crochet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here are two of my top faves, Olek, and Joana Vasconcelos, both who use crochet on a large scale, exploiting its sculptural properties and using the bright colour palette that I know I associate with domestic crochet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you are a die-hard knitter who has never tried crochet, or a keen crafter who has never picked it up then have a go! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Knitting, I love you, but sometimes, you just make me want to crochet! </span><br />
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<br />Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-63263745815064861982015-04-13T11:11:00.001-07:002015-04-14T02:11:43.813-07:00We have LIFT OFF!!!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That's right, knit and destroy has left planet earth and I'm floating about in outer space...ok, so maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but, there is a new collection out, and that definitely is intergalactic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have been fascinated with space for years, I remember going to the London Planetarium age 9 and having my mind blown, coming home with a poster of 'space' (I think it was a galaxy)that lived on my bedroom wall for years. I must admit, my dinosaur obsession took over for a few years but the moon and stars were always there to gaze at and the love of space never went away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This <a href="http://knitanddestroy.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">collection </a>sees the return of glow in the dark knits, as well as glitter yarns and some space dye. I had lots of fun putting this collection together, playing with new yarns and making the biggest cushion I have ever attempted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We all know that the moon glows in the dark, this cushion and scarf are no exception. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Rachel's shop is full of all the best knitting supplies you could ever dream of, AND she uses it as an exhibition space too, at no charge to the artist, because she's nice like that. I had been working on my 'Death by knitting' idea for a while before I met with Rachel (by this I mean watching horror films where people get attacked/killed with knitting needles) and her offer to exhibit my work gave me the excuse to finally make it! Fast forward to April, lots of computer based knit design work, 3D trickery, and some hand stitching later...</span><a href="http://www.kandydiamond.com/#!grid/c1347" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">'Death by knitting'</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> was a reality...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">While this exhibition was being put together, my 3D posters were accepted for a group exhibition </span><a href="http://www.aspex.org.uk/events/craft-emergency-2014-group-exhibition/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">'Craft Emergency'</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> at Aspex gallery in Portsmouth, here they are all framed up like proper movie posters!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I am super-grateful for all the people who have supported my adventures in yarn this year, given me opportunities to show my work, bought things from me, helped me work things out, made me cups of tea etc. Without you I would probably just be sat here surrounded by half-finished knitted things which wouldn't be very satisfying at all...</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Keep being awesome, and I'll see you in the future!</span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-46016264573360365292014-10-29T04:07:00.003-07:002014-10-29T04:07:53.535-07:00National Knitting Week<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Every year, there is a week dedicated to knitting, aptly named 'national knitting week', and every year (apart from one about 6 years ago) I miss it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I always see things that happened in 'National knitting week' when it's over, which is a shame because I love knitting and encouraging others to knit. This made me think that for me, most weeks of the year centre around knitting, whether it's making (knitting) my own work or teaching knit design in my jobs. That said...what was I doing in national knitting week?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I was mostly knitting this mask for my current exhibition at </span><a href="http://www.prickyourfinger.com/blog/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Prick Your Finger</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">More info about the opening event and the exhibition </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/785459684809065/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">. And for those of you who can't make it, I'll make sure I get some pics on here when it's all up!</span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-89750425949687214812014-06-16T09:44:00.000-07:002014-06-16T10:11:54.636-07:00Knit and Destroy..got handy! How my products became patterns...<div class="irc_mutc" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This time last year, I was doing the final checks of the pages for my book that had been sent to me by the lovely folk at </span><a href="http://www.cabincreative.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Cabin Creative</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> before it went to print! I learnt a lot from putting this book together and thought I would share some of the main stages of this process with you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>HOW TO PUBLISH:</strong> I had the idea to put together a book of hand knit patterns of my designs a good few years ago, and as more and more craft books (of varying quality) filled up the shelves, I decided it was time to put the wheels in motion with my own book. I did a bit of initial research into publishing but nothing was really making sense or speaking to me, so, as always I turned to real people. I knew Suzy and Ian from their awesome counter culture magazine NUDE, which my work had featured in, also, knowing that they had released their own book 'Bare Essentials - the best of NUDE magazine 2003-2011' I contacted Suzy with lots of questions about publishing a book. Her response was great, she set out all my different options and we decided to meet for a cuppa and a chat, which was when I found out about their new endeavour, Cabin Creative, and the book went from an idea to the beginnings of a reality!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">We had a fantastic day at Prick Your Finger hanging the work and getting ready for the preview, it's such a great shop it was hard not to get distracted by all the yarns and knitted delights, the disco ball was my favourite feature!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">What I do know is that in 2013 I turned 30! Anyone who knows me will know that I love saying, oh, it's just a number...birthdays are the best, and although I still firmly believe that, 30 was a bit different. I'd heard tales of people "turning 30 and becoming boring"..and throughout my 20s there's been a lot of "oh, just you wait, you'll get broody when you're 30", so I was more concerned than usual by this year and this age change! IT'S ALL OK THOUGH KIDS, being 30 can be AWESOME, I've not suddenly turned into a bore or started buying baby magazines, I have had lots of fun times and done things I never thought I would do. I am definitely more 30 going on 13 than I ever was the other way round. Here's a list of 13 things (in a sort of chronological order) that made this year memorable for me.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">1. Formed Yiiikes! collective with Alison and Seleena, working on Art with friends is super-fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">2. Roller Derby tattoo, I wanted one of these for a while but promised myself I had to make the A-team before I was allowed one. I first made the A-team in 2012, but got my tattoo booked in with one of my favourite tattoo artists for early 2013. Her helmet and the colours reminds me of quidditch too which I love!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">3. I built a website, from scratch! I had made pages for my website in photoshop before but this year I learnt to use dreamweaver and made a whole </span><a href="http://www.seleenalavernedaye.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> for the super talented Seleena!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">4. Yiiikes! had our first exhibition, yeah, we mean business. We created a glowing world instillation exhibition at Islington Mill which was really fun to put together, and to see/hear people experience it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">9. PARTY!!! One of the great things about turning a landmark number is having a party, for me this meant getting lots of friends together, setting up party games, putting on a spread and having a dance!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">10. New York! For my birthday, I went on holiday to NYC, somewhere I have always fancied but never had a reason to go to. It was PERFECT, I got to spend some quality time with Ben, checking out the sights and discovering all the delicious food. On my birthday, my present was a trip to Coney Island where I got to be part of the freak show and pretend to be Cyndi Lauper on the wonder wheel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">11. Went to Shetland to speak at a conference in front of 3 of my knitting heroines, met Lisa Anne Auerbach..and made friends with her. I have been a fan of her work for years,</span><a href="http://lisaanneauerbach.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> she is great</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">12. Became a regular Roller Derby coach. I might have done a bit last year, I can't remember, but this year I did a lot, and really enjoyed it. I was rewarded for my hard work by my team with my own stopwatch and whistle...watch out 2014, I'm gonna whip you into shape! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">13. Realised that I am, and continue to be massively inspired by the people around me, their creativity, talent, love and enthusiasm, keep it up you awesome bunch. Xxx </span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-76892622172027799052013-12-27T10:12:00.000-08:002013-12-27T10:12:09.657-08:00Crafting for Christmas...cushion crazy!!!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Now that all the gifts have been given and opened, I can share what I was busy doing in the run up to Christmas! I have been encouraged to make presents from a young age, a swan tapestry (one of those easy wool ones) for my Grandma, a x-stitch pin cushion for my favourite teacher and always find it really rewarding so never stopped! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I feel like I made more stuff than ever this year, and I really enjoyed it. Of course, there are a good few machine knitted things in here, but there's also some crochet and sewing, and as the title suggests, a good few cushions, here's what I made...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Another machine knit cushion, this for Ben, based on Heisenberg from Breaking Bad. This is knitted using bamboo yarn, I've never machine knitted with it before so it didn't come out exactly how I expected but Ben was very happy with it! I chose blue for the blue meth that Heisenberg is known for cooking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">For this cushion I chose crochet. I found a super chunky alpaca yarn in my sister's favourite colour so had to make her something from it. I crocheted this large square, which used all the yarn in the ball. I found the perfect cushion to attach it to in Wilko's and carefully stitched it on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">What...these aren't cushions! Yeah, I did make a few things that weren't cushions. These are sew-on patches that I made from a t-shirt I bought this summer. The t-shirt was covered with drawings of awesome women, and rather than keeping them all to myself, I made each woman into an individual patch, these are 3 that I kept, I forgot to photograph the ones I gave to people.</span><br />
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Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-86680864902323608372013-12-20T03:30:00.001-08:002013-12-20T03:30:49.348-08:00Kraft Korner - becoming a magazine contributor!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I love getting post, and this week I got some of the best post, two issues of Inside Line magazine with my craft projects in them! But why am I writing for this magazine? What is Inside Line? Well, here's some answers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I have been co-writing </span><a href="http://sugarpaper.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Sugar Paper zine</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> with the awesome talented </span><a href="http://www.seleenalavernedaye.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Seleena Daye</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> for over 5 years now, Sugar Paper is a craft zine with 20 things to make and do in every issue! It was last year when I was thinking about how Roller Derby started and it's D.I.Y roots that I decided to make my own Roller Derby zine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> I really enjoyed putting the zine together, there is such a huge extended community within Roller Derby and I got a few great contributors for this issue. It featured interviews, exercise tips, recipes, tales of how Roller Derby changed lives and of course crafts!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Being known for being crafty, I was invited to run a workshop at</span><a href="http://www.roller-derby-on-film.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Jason Ruffel's</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> excellent exhibition of Roller Derby photography, and that's where I met Jessica Ali (aka Jessica Rammit), the brains behind (founder and Editor of) Inside Line magazine. I gave her a copy of my zine for something to keep her entertained on the journey home, the rest is herstory, ha. This is a lesson to anyone who is a bit shy with their work, you need to get it out there. If I hadn't given Jessica a zine, I would never have ended up writing for her magazine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">When I started Roller Derby in 2010, I said "I'll just go and skate, I'm not really bothered about the social side of it or doing it seriously"...how wrong was I?! I soon realised I liked the skating way too much to just go and skate, I wanted to learn, get good at it, skate more, and get to know these people who were teaching us and those who I was learning with. I really like being a part of the Roller Derby community, and being involved in a project like Inside Line magazine reminds me why I love it all over again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The passion from Jessica and from each contributor to this magazine is alive on the pages as you read it, everyone who puts work into this magazine does it for the love of it, and because of that, it reads like a zine, but it looks and feels like a high quality magazine, which it is! If you haven't read it, what are you waiting for, go get a copy, or if you're already into Roller Derby, you might as well get a subscription because you'll love it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Now it's time for me to start thinking of my next Roller Derby craft project, oh, and to finish issue 2 of my 'zine! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Kandy </span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-87247227351325546602013-12-02T14:25:00.000-08:002013-12-02T14:25:02.474-08:00Welcome to Twin Peaks!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">One of the first ideas I had when designing this collection was the 'red room' scarf, it took a few trials and some alterations but I got there in the end and am really happy with this representation of the 'red room' in this scarf </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">There's a piece dedicated to Agent Dale Cooper in the collection, and one to Audrey Horne of course, as well as the owls! Click <a href="http://knitanddestroy.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to browse the collection on my shop. </span></div>
Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-60346665680617486812013-09-30T04:52:00.002-07:002013-09-30T04:52:44.300-07:00Blankets - a patchwork of error!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">For my 30th birthday, my Mum crocheted a lovely blanket for me that now sits in pride of place on my sofa. Today, I moved one of the fleece blankets off the sofa, because with the addition of beautiful crochet blanket, we no longer need 2 fleece blankets out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It was when I went to put this fleece blanket away in the 'board games and blankets' chest I realised, there are a few more blankets in there that haven't seen the light of day for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">These blankets are made up of all the knitting that doesn't quite make it to being a full scarf/cushion/jumper. These are usually pieces that have gone wrong due to machine/human/combination of both error, and I cannot stand to see them go to waste, so I collect them up and patchwork them together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">My favourite bit of these blankets is here, where I had 2 of the same cat cushion that had come off the machine in almost the same place so I made a mirror cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Because all my knits are made from lambswool, they need finishing after knitting, which means washing. For the sake of continuity, and speed, I use the washing machine. There is a quick cold wash cycle on my machine that works a treat.....most of the time! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Apart from the time when the machine decided to HOT wash my knits and yes, you know what's coming SHRINK them. To this day I don't know what happened, the settings were the same as always but when I went to fetch the knits, the washing machine window was steamy and the knits warm!!! You can see from the fuzzy texture they've gone from washed to felted...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">There was no time to grieve the shrunken knits, I had to dry my eyes and jump straight back on the knitting machine. When I finally got round to putting this blanket together, I could appreciate that without that disaster I wouldn't have a lovely and warm knitted reminder of my first solo exhibition. I love finding/making positives around situations like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Although I haven't seen these blankets for a while (I'm sure they will all come creeping back out the chest when the weather is colder) I am really glad I kept all these bits and made them. They are a physical record of the designs and mistakes I have made over the years and act like a diary of my knitting. There are pieces from the witchcraft collection waiting patiently to be patch-worked together, I'll pop a photo up when it's done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> </span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-10134134720514243662013-08-05T06:41:00.000-07:002013-08-05T06:41:14.302-07:00Jumping off a high dive board with my knitting hero - my adventures in Shetland!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">If you have been following me for a while, you'll know I went up to Shetland in 2010 for the 'In the loop 2' knitting conference when I had my eyes opened to the wide world of knitting....and met Lucius Malfoy (Jason Issacs). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This time, I knew what to expect from the island a bit more, beautiful scenery, infrequent bus services, lovely people, lots of knitting! And I spoke at the conference, which was 'In the loop 3.5', and this was to be in front of 2 of my favourite knit based artists of all time </span><a href="http://www.freddierobins.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Freddie Robins</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> and</span><a href="http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Lisa Anne Auerbach</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> as they were both speaking at the conference too, eeeek. I met Freddie last year at 2 different conferences, we actually have a lot in common and I spent a lot of time with her on this trip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Wednesday, I flew up to Aberdeen then on to Sumburgh, I didn't bother going to bed due to early flight, so the conference part of Wednesday was mostly a blur. I plucked up the courage to speak to Lisa Anne, hired a bike, got lost on the way to buy food, found food and settled in to my apartment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">There was a highly recommended chippy near the castle, so we headed there for tea. Me and Lisa just had chips, the others had chips with deep fried Haggis...when in Scotland, right! This was odd, somehow I had ended up eating chippy with not 1 but 3 people whose practice I look up to. We were all due to talk on Friday, I had to cycle back and it was raining so I set off up the hill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Friday was the last day of the conference and the day I was speaking. Freddie also spoke, in the afternoon, this is one of her slides showing one of my favourite pieces of her work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Lisa spoke about her most recent project based on the honsestrik knitting style, which was amazing, but I plan on writing a blog purely about that so won't go into it now. I do have a photo of me and Lisa posing though...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Lisa had been telling us about the amazing swimming pool in Lerwick with slides, rapids and diving boards all week, but we didn't have swimsuits. Luckily for us Lerwick has some well stocked charity shops and Freddie and I both got a cheap swimming costume that fitted! So, after the conference, we headed out to the pool and I was not disappointed. There were 2 water slides, a rapids with rings to sit in and diving boards. I sat in a foam ring getting whirled round with Freddie, followed by jumping off the 3m diving board with Lisa, it was a surreal and super-fun experience. It seems that Shetland exists to surprise me, last time Lucius...now this! My knitting heroes are real, lovely people and we have a lot in common. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I then went to Mereel where there was an event for Shetland makers to show their work, I met a lot of lovely people with great work but the work of </span><a href="http://ellagordon.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Ella Gordon</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> was right up my street. here she is (on the right) with her work and amazing dress! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> </span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-33978961951413571302013-07-22T03:18:00.002-07:002013-07-22T03:22:08.911-07:00Look out Indietracks...here we come!!!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It's SUMMER...that means festival season! I'm not a fan of your average 'giant field full of mud and portaloos' festival, but, a few years ago, I discovered a festival that I do like, <a href="http://www.indietracks.co.uk/" target="_blank">Indietracks</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I first went with Seleena in 2010 when we took </span><a href="http://sugarpapergang.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Sugar Paper</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> to Indietracks and ran a 20 things to make and do workshop. We camped at the nearby campsite, checked out the railway museum, ate lots of super noodles, rode the free mini steam train...oh, and saw some ace bands!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">We had a break in 2011, but went again last year (mostly because we wanted to see Go Sailor! who were amazing) when we ran a 'Postcards from Indietracks' workshop, and wimped out of camping due to flood warnings!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This year we're back, this time Seleena is running a </span><a href="http://coolschmoolzines.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/radical-cheerleaders-rule-ok.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Radical Cheerleading</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> workshop on Saturday, and I'm doing a pom-pom pets one on the Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So, if you're going to Indietracks you should come down, do some cheering and make some pets. Also, our pals Amy and Melanie are running a felting workshop which will be ace!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> </span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-17074452912205784612013-07-08T10:48:00.001-07:002013-07-08T10:48:26.014-07:00Hand Knit Pattern Book....OUT NOW!!!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">My last blog brought the news that I have written a book, now it's here and you can buy it, hooray! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Here's a selection of pages from the book, a sneak peek just for you, sorry its a bit small, you can see it bigger on my <a href="http://www.knitanddestroy.co.uk/lookinside.htm" target="_blank">website</a>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Kandy xxx</span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-28436910850725110412013-06-07T01:55:00.000-07:002013-06-07T01:55:29.617-07:00Knit and Destroy....gets handy!!!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Dust off your knitting needles and reach for the wool, I've written a book of knitting patterns!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> So, since my last post, I have mostly been doing secret things, or techno things. I have two quite different projects on the go, both still under wraps, and both really exciting....all will be revealed in April!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">That leaves the techno things...I am by no means a techno whizz, I know the bare minimum of what I need to in order to make things appear on the internet. Until last year my partner did all the website making side of things, but I figured, he taught himself how to do it, so can I. So, a few patient hours and many cups of tea later, I knew enough to build my super talented friend Seleena Daye's </span><a href="http://www.seleenalavernedaye.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">website</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">All you need to know is that last year, I made it down to the London BUST Christmas Craftacular, saw a lot of familiar faces, and some new faces which is always good! Here is what a Knit and Destroy stall looks like these days...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I will be doing a few fairs in 2013 and will keep you posted, so keep checking back,I might well come to a city near you</span>Knit and Destroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00963433043720049288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910130739433779153.post-50322532274149838362012-12-04T03:16:00.000-08:002012-12-04T03:16:35.049-08:00All Systems Go - part 2<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">A little later than promised, here is the second installment, so, the last photo was the knits as they have come off the machine. They need washing to give the labmswool it's super soft finish, but I can't just throw it in with all those loose ends and the foxes in bits, so I sew the ends in, and the foxes up. Here they are before the wash...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">And that's how it works, from yarn to finished product. There are lots of stages involved and a few different skills and techniques used along the way which keeps me on my toes. Now I've got some custom coloured glasses cases to knit which I'm looking forward to, as much as I love making the products as I've designed them, making them in a different colour or with a slightly custom design is always good fun! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">In my teens, I finally stopped reading pongwiffy, and grotbags wasn't on the TV any more but there were new witches on the block, oones that weren't green and were teenagers!!! There was Sabrina the teenage witch on TV, but even better than that there was The Craft. Three misfit teens who, when joined by a new girl from out of town form a coven.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I had stopped reading books at this stage, I only read things for school and wasn't interested in books, until my Mum started reading the Harry Potter series of books to my (then 7 yr old) little brother. She said I would like them, and they were about magic which I obviously liked..so I started reading, and stopped when I got to the end of the Goblet of Fire (no more books released yet) wow, I was hooked! Witches and wizards living alongside humans in the modern day but with their own schools and ministry and shops and currency. I couldn't wait for the next installment, and although the story revolves around a wizard there are plenty of amazing witches in these stories. Luna Lovegood is one of my absolute favourites. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">A year or so later, having discovered John Waters films and unearthed a whole world of awesome counter culture that I had been oblivious of I found Elvira...mistress of the dark. I'm not sure if I have watched Elvira as many times as I read Pongwiffy, but it was pretty much the ten years later equivilent!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Every year when Halloween approaches I think about knitting stuff inspired by all things halloween but never quite get round to it...this year...it might just happen...watch this space </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Later in the day, at the end of one set of talks, I approach her asking where she bought the necklace from because I made it. As she is telling me where it is from, I notice her name badge, it's</span><a href="http://www.freddierobins.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Freddie Robins</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">....only my top favourite knit artist, aahhhhh! The words get a bit muddled as my brain attempts to process the fact that this awesome artist liked one of my pieces enough to purchase and wear it. I do manage to ask if I can take a photograph of her wearing it, she is super-nice and asks me about my work and agrees to a photograph. </span><br />
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