Happy New Year! I’ve been enjoying the quiet days between Christmas Day and New Year, and using this slowed-down in-between time to think about the year that’s been, and the one to come. I thought it would be fun to turn one photo from each month into a postcard. Dear January – we have made […]
Almost eleven years ago, to celebrate our friend Liz’s upcoming wedding, a few Oxford Bluestockings knitters piled into cars and drove to the dye studio then run by Fyberspates. A very happy afternoon of dyeing ensued. This is all the yarn we dyed that day, on a variety of bases. The sparkly one (I think?) […]
Hello, Today I want to give you all a heads-up about holiday closures at shop.knitsonik.com and to manage your expectations around festive holiday shipping. As many of you will know, KNITSONIK LTD. is a one-disabled-woman operation, which means that if you buy anything from my online shop, it is me who sends it out to […]
Lately I’ve found myself thinking about The Brownies in which I was enrolled at around seven years old. Here I am making my enrolment pledge and wearing my freshly purchased Brownies uniform… The above photo leaves me with conflicting feelings: it was a little rite of passage and a magic moment for me, yet in […]
Remember the Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1 project mentioned a few posts back? Today I want to announce the amazing commission produced by the artist Lorna Hamilton-Brown as part of this project. Lorna’s new work – Woman Blue – Elevate – is a powerful creative response to our work with punch-cards for music-boxes, and to our research […]
There’s a feeling of calm following what has been a busy time completing work on my Knit Stars 6 Masterclass Handout. It ended up pretty much being a book. What can I say? By the time you write introductory text plus short biographies for twelve artists, then add twelve charts in black and white and […]
Things have been quiet here on the blog because all my energy is going into my Knit Stars 6 Masterclass: Think Like An Artist. This class builds on long-standing ideas from my practice around celebrating daily life in stranded colourwork, but it’s also a love-letter to the many artists and makers on whose shoulders my […]
One of many things which makes listening to music so beautiful is space around the notes. The rests, the pauses, the silence, in which pitches and rhythms sound, hang, resonate. On our punch-cards for our componiums, such space shows up as unpunched card, and you get loads of areas where nothing happens. Against the gridded […]
Just popping in to say that my talk – KNITSONIK By Numbers – from the John Arbon Mill Open Weekend is now uploaded and online. I share quite a bit about my process of designing the cowl for my Knit Stars Class, as well as glimpses of the article itself! I also talk about my […]
Last week Mark started to feel rough – temperature, coughing, sleepy, upset tummy, lack of taste etc. – and on Saturday, I joined in with mostly coughing and feeling bunged up, groggy and really, really tired. Also I noticed that my customary fortifying stove-top espresso tasted of nothing. On Saturday the PCR test Mark had […]