…of a reversible hat and mitts set worked in double-knitting; bearing motifs inspired by the bass lines of two songs; and visibilising creative sonic practices.
Meet the componium!
…of the inner workings of a componium – a programmable music box – and its intersections with the grid-base medium of knit.
One week until Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1 launches!
…of music boxes, knitting patterns, and seven more days to go until the first Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1 pattern is released!
Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1
…of making music to wear, and patterns to hear.
Bells at Boscombe
It’s a funny time of year and I’m not in the swing of 2023 just yet. However, our quest to sell our home and to find a new place to live by the sea continues. This time last week, we had a glorious day in Boscombe. The winter sun was low and bright, and we […]
KNITSONIK Knit Stitch Template
Have you done my KNITSONIK Bullet Journaling Course? It is a course that shows you how to organise everything in your life in a dot-grid journal in a way that works for you, that is just for you, that feeds your creativity, that keeps all your important things in one place and – very importantly […]
Limitations
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 […]
How a Postcard becomes a Project…
Three years ago I released the KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Playbook, one chapter of which details the superlative #KnittedCorrespondence adventures of my friends Muriel Pensivy (France) and Yumi Shimada (Japan). For #KnittedCorrespondence, Muriel and Yumi took the basic concept of celebrating daily life in stranded colourwork and evolved it into something gorgeous, social and ongoing. Working […]
Wheesht by Kate Davies
If you subscribe to my newsletter you’ll know I’ve been rediscovering my love of books over the Winter, and that I’ll be sharing some of my favourites here in coming days. Today I want to talk about Wheesht by my friend Kate Davies of KDD&Co. First published in December 2019, Wheesht has recently been reprinted […]
Happy IWD!
Hello everyone and Happy International Women’s Day. Last year I marked this date in sound by releasing a SONIK mix to accompany the Balance for Better Blanket. The Balance for Better Blanket was produced in collaboration with the team at KDD&Co. and celebrates the lives, work, skills and contributions of 30 women. My mix provides […]