MDK March Mayhem
Greetings, Friends! How are you doing? This global pandemic is a scary time and I thought that while so many of us are at home – and perhaps unused to being at home – it might be a good thing … Continue reading
Category Archives: KNITSONIK NEWS
KNITSONIK MIXTAPE #7: SONIK Balance For Better Blanket
This year in celebration of International Women’s Day, I decided to work on a SONIK accompaniment to the Balance for Better Blanket on which I collaborated last year with my amazing friends at KDD & Co. The result is a … Continue reading
A square for Wendy Carlos
A few weeks ago, my friend Kate and I shared the Square Share/Balance for Better Blanket project on which we worked earlier this year, together with all at team KDD&Co., to mark International Women’s Day, 2019. The blanket has been … Continue reading
A Q&A with Nichola McGuire of Eclectic Gift
Following on from yesterday’s post, and celebrating the launch of my new greeting cards, we are joined today on the KNITSONIK blog by Nichola McGuire of Eclectic Gift. This post discusses mental health issues openly and is dedicated to anyone … Continue reading
Posted in KNITSONIK NEWS Tagged Collaboration, Greeting Cards, inclusion, KNITSONIK x Eclectic Gift, knitting, mental health, representation, self-care, uplift, well-being 1 Comment
KNITSONIK & Eclectic Gift: A Collaboration
Hello, today I want to introduce a collaborative project between myself and Nichola McGuire – the artist behind Eclectic Gift. Nichola has designed a new range of KNITSONIK greeting cards which will launch in my shop tomorrow. We’ll celebrate their … Continue reading
Classes at Vogue Knitting Live, Austin, Texas
Hello! If you follow me on Instagram you may know that last weekend I was at Vogue Knitting Live Intensive, held in Austin, Texas. I did two classes while there and thought you might like to hear about them. The … Continue reading
A square for Bobby Baker
I so enjoyed reading Kate’s account of designing a square for Adrienne Rich for our blanket. The poem she describes – An Atlas of The Difficult World – is one of many amazing works to which Kate introduced me through … Continue reading
Square Share
Towards the end of last summer my friend Kate of KDD & Co. visited me here in Reading so we could plan a collaborative project. Our idea was to design something together which would speak to our shared interests in … Continue reading
Posted in KNITSONIK NEWS, KNITSONIK PROCESSES Tagged Kate Davies, KDD & Co., Melanie Patton, Square Share 4 Comments
Skystone Hat
In my last post I shared the Skystone Armwarmers I was knitting in August. These armwarmers were knit using the pattern I produced for Arnall-Culliford’s well thought out book, Boost Your Knitting: Another Year of Techniques. The motif is meant … Continue reading
Posted in KNITSONIK NEWS, KNITSONIK PROCESSES Tagged knitwear design, modeling, Sasha Davina, Skystone Hat 3 Comments
Under the Himalayan White Pine
The KNITSONIK System emerged, in part, out of my continually picking things up, or being in places, and thinking I WANT TO KNIT THIS… but then having no clear way to action that vague, common impulse. My Sourcebook is full … Continue reading
Posted in KNITSONIK NEWS, KNITSONIK PROCESSES, KNITSONIK SOUNDS Tagged acknitwear, armwarmers, boostyourknitting, pinecone, skystone 3 Comments
