and HOW to persuade the family they want a day trip out to Warwick ..
A Ravelry Fun Day - sounds .. FUN!
We've promised no.1.son a day out for his birthday but I'm not sure a knitty-day out will be popular!
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Creative Textiles Course : week 11
Theme continued this week on COLOUR!
We're to have a break from all the writing next week and have a session working on knitted samples
I find colour personally rather hard to grasp, but, interestingly, talking to fellow student, Jackie, it sounds as though my disappointment with the dreaded quilt which has been long since abandoned and shoved into bag and forgotten about MIGHT be rather more down to disappointment with choice of colours and lack of complementaries rather than the pattern itself, or, indeed, the choice OF lilac shaded colour!
I've promised to look at it with fresh eyes to see if a zingy sashing could somehow revive interest in it!
Lots of blank pages I'm afraid in my sketchbooks on this weeks homework which has been a rather mind blowing set of exercises which suggest that one should dip into work basket and come out with a handful of pastels, brights and cools and intermingle them to come up with a fairisle cardigant!
Struggled my way through 2.5days worth of angst about whether this particular shade of purple was in fact belonging to red-violet OR blue before deciding it could jolly well go back into the work basket and perhaps I'd be better playing SAFE with red and green!
Below you can see I''ve managed to follow my colour wheel sufficiently to match up its complementary and splits, either side, but whether I shall be brave enough to try it with another less obvious colour scheme I don't know at this point!
Interesting article on colour in Quilting Arts magazine suggested that disappointment might not be with the COLOUR rather the tone of it, and suggested that one pull out all fabric swatches and make notes on those colours (or should that be hue?) tints, tones and shades and trot off to local quilty shop for further supplies in order to explore colour further .. spent half an hour using up most of notebook and calculated estimated cost of this exercise to be around £350 ..
Decided had less chance of convincing family of this that I would the Embellisher machine and the D.Bliss cashmere scarf put together so decided, instead, to work with what I could FIND!
Surprised myself with a/ finding all that I apparently needed IN my work baskets and b/ found myself ENJOYING myself sorting through and finding colours that I didn't know I had!
Having decided there is a definite theme going on in both my house and the wardrobe after I sat and realised that my entire upstairs (except lads' bedroom which is blue) is actually PURPLE. including the towels and, sadly, even the shower gel and loo cleaning bleach. In fact I've just realised th dining room is also blue. which makes me a mono-chromatic household? (or is that the black. grey, and white? doesn't matter. the WARDROBE is black, grey, white and navy!).
Have managed to do about 3 or 4 of the exercises and feel quite pleased that my book/homework is still up to date and that will have to do, for now!
PS: before I make a complete FOOL of myself, would anyone who knows care to tell me WHERE I'll find BROWN on the colour wheel? I'm blowed if I can find it as a colour and, irritatingly, I've got several shades of brown quilting cotton fabric and about 4 knitting yarns too - slightly concerned its either not an actual "colour" OR I've got a dodgy colourwheel?
We're to have a break from all the writing next week and have a session working on knitted samples
I find colour personally rather hard to grasp, but, interestingly, talking to fellow student, Jackie, it sounds as though my disappointment with the dreaded quilt which has been long since abandoned and shoved into bag and forgotten about MIGHT be rather more down to disappointment with choice of colours and lack of complementaries rather than the pattern itself, or, indeed, the choice OF lilac shaded colour!
I've promised to look at it with fresh eyes to see if a zingy sashing could somehow revive interest in it!
Lots of blank pages I'm afraid in my sketchbooks on this weeks homework which has been a rather mind blowing set of exercises which suggest that one should dip into work basket and come out with a handful of pastels, brights and cools and intermingle them to come up with a fairisle cardigant!
Struggled my way through 2.5days worth of angst about whether this particular shade of purple was in fact belonging to red-violet OR blue before deciding it could jolly well go back into the work basket and perhaps I'd be better playing SAFE with red and green!
Below you can see I''ve managed to follow my colour wheel sufficiently to match up its complementary and splits, either side, but whether I shall be brave enough to try it with another less obvious colour scheme I don't know at this point!
Interesting article on colour in Quilting Arts magazine suggested that disappointment might not be with the COLOUR rather the tone of it, and suggested that one pull out all fabric swatches and make notes on those colours (or should that be hue?) tints, tones and shades and trot off to local quilty shop for further supplies in order to explore colour further .. spent half an hour using up most of notebook and calculated estimated cost of this exercise to be around £350 ..
Decided had less chance of convincing family of this that I would the Embellisher machine and the D.Bliss cashmere scarf put together so decided, instead, to work with what I could FIND!
Surprised myself with a/ finding all that I apparently needed IN my work baskets and b/ found myself ENJOYING myself sorting through and finding colours that I didn't know I had!
Having decided there is a definite theme going on in both my house and the wardrobe after I sat and realised that my entire upstairs (except lads' bedroom which is blue) is actually PURPLE. including the towels and, sadly, even the shower gel and loo cleaning bleach. In fact I've just realised th dining room is also blue. which makes me a mono-chromatic household? (or is that the black. grey, and white? doesn't matter. the WARDROBE is black, grey, white and navy!).
Have managed to do about 3 or 4 of the exercises and feel quite pleased that my book/homework is still up to date and that will have to do, for now!
PS: before I make a complete FOOL of myself, would anyone who knows care to tell me WHERE I'll find BROWN on the colour wheel? I'm blowed if I can find it as a colour and, irritatingly, I've got several shades of brown quilting cotton fabric and about 4 knitting yarns too - slightly concerned its either not an actual "colour" OR I've got a dodgy colourwheel?
NEC Sewing for Pleasure - 2008
NEC Sewing for Pleasure Show.
I'm looking forward to another day out at the show listed above with my very good sewing-pal, Ann, her daughter, Elizabeth, and two good friends June and Jean. We always go and mostly have a great time, staying until the very end and this time I've printed off a list of exhibitors to study in advance.
Hope to bump into other sewing and knitty friends there too!
I'm looking forward to another day out at the show listed above with my very good sewing-pal, Ann, her daughter, Elizabeth, and two good friends June and Jean. We always go and mostly have a great time, staying until the very end and this time I've printed off a list of exhibitors to study in advance.
Hope to bump into other sewing and knitty friends there too!
Organised folder of information!
Spent the last fortnight completely and ruthlessly sorting through my mag stash and have now got it down to manageable size of one box worth (plus a pile scattered on bedroom floor which are next on the list!). To keep the contents tidy and sorted of useful articles and things to do and make and general inspirational yumminess I've sorted into about 5 folders. Takes up far less room than an actual magazine stash and should prove to be brilliant for those moments when I just KNOW I saw a cardi I fancied knitting from an old mag an blowed if I can remember how many balls of yarn I don't really need to buy as it'll never get knitted anyway ..
I'm tempted with the D.Bliss cashmere scarf you can just see atop the pile above, only it takes 5 skeins and even at half price thats £25 and I'm not sure the family will fall for the "bargain" side of it.
What I bought! (more quilty goodies)
Popped into local quilt shop for a colour-wheel for Creative Textiles course, and came out with huge bag that included:
Super magazines! BOGOF offer too, how could I say no? loved the Quilting Arts in particular articles of interest include colour themed ones! had to have it!!
While I make my mind up about whether I can arrange for delivery of new Embellisher machine on a day and time guaranteed to be no one else at home and find space for it without giving away any clues while hoping to disguise the payment details from joint account into somehow "household" expenses, decided to buy a cheapie hand needle kit!
Still not opened it! plan to try it out later this week!
Have NO idea what made me buy these! other than the fact that they were reduced from around a fiver each down to £1 each!
If anyone has used these stabilisers, could they kindly tell me HOW to use them as apparently there are no instructions! grr!!
Super magazines! BOGOF offer too, how could I say no? loved the Quilting Arts in particular articles of interest include colour themed ones! had to have it!!
While I make my mind up about whether I can arrange for delivery of new Embellisher machine on a day and time guaranteed to be no one else at home and find space for it without giving away any clues while hoping to disguise the payment details from joint account into somehow "household" expenses, decided to buy a cheapie hand needle kit! Still not opened it! plan to try it out later this week!
Have NO idea what made me buy these! other than the fact that they were reduced from around a fiver each down to £1 each!If anyone has used these stabilisers, could they kindly tell me HOW to use them as apparently there are no instructions! grr!!
- Sulky Stitch Fabric - ideal for sportswear adhesive backed for precise positioning - have NO idea how this works! its a rather bright royal blue too!
- Two packs of Sulky prisma ideal for applique on outdoor clothing, sweatshirts and craft projects. One appears to be clear the other lilac striped - again NO idea how these work!
Knitting Progress (slow!)
The knitting is progressing very slowly at the moment, I'm far too distracted with bits of fabric but here is the back on the V neck tunic from the Rowan Classic am/pm book nearing the end, thankfully! Its starting to feel quite heavy on my lap, but then again I could be just being a bit FEEBLE?
Its a bit dull. and with all the work we're doing on the Creative Textiles course on "colour" I'm starting to wish I'd gone for a zingy RED (except. I'd never wear it! and besides it wasn't marked down to half price!).
Distractions to the knitting also include the new summer books and yummy yarns - am starting to feel rather fond of the display of the new Rowan PureLife .. (don't ask about the sock! its still OTN's)
Its a bit dull. and with all the work we're doing on the Creative Textiles course on "colour" I'm starting to wish I'd gone for a zingy RED (except. I'd never wear it! and besides it wasn't marked down to half price!).
Distractions to the knitting also include the new summer books and yummy yarns - am starting to feel rather fond of the display of the new Rowan PureLife .. (don't ask about the sock! its still OTN's)
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Online knitty resources
Thanks to Make do andMend, I've found some lovely links including this one, The Inside Loop, which looks interesting not least its UK based! you can read more here.
Some crochet links to videos from Sharon B's wonderful In a Minute Ago blog too, which you can find here.
Some crochet links to videos from Sharon B's wonderful In a Minute Ago blog too, which you can find here.
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