Well, I might not be the best one to speak about this topic -not having posted anything since month – but it has been a lot on my mind lately.
I have decided to close my Facebook account, because I felt it was rather useless. Most people I stayed in touch with lived next door to me anyway, while friends found more personal approaches even from abroad. So I have to do the same now and it is interesting what I come up with. I have called my grandmother to ask for my cousins phonenumber, which ended in a nice little chat. Or today I have spent a nice hour making a postcard for a friend who moved away… So things might have become more complicated – but definitively more fun also!
Ok, you think you have survived all the New Years sentimentalities? You have not!
With this post I want to show my respect for the occupy! movement. Though I understand the critisism that it is not always sure what they are really trying to achieve, to me they stand for a lot I admire.
They created a movement that did not even exist last year this time and created a name that is now known nearly everywhere on the world. With a lot and humour they inspire people all over the world to think about whats important to them and criticize what goes wrong in their opinion.
As a knitter I want to ask you to support this group of occupists: Occupy Berkeley as seen on yarnbombing.com.
Peronally I encourage you to check out this funny (and strange) protest signs. Enjoy!
No, this post is not about my aim to recycle more or a new idea how to knitcycle. It is actually about something very green. As you can see on the left
I think even in knitting we are quite often stuck in habits we have learned and we stick to. Therefore I have to admit that I never before thought about knitting a hat like I did here. I started with size 1,5 mm double-.pointed knitting needles and added yarn and needle size until it fit on my head. As you can see, I used plenty of stuff for this – and I tried to stick to the general colour theme.
With this colourful post I want to say goodbye for this year. As you can see from the quality of my images and the irregularity of my posts, I am quite busy right now and unable to squeeze this hobby of mine in.
I am quite sure you will find more @brifrischu at twitter.
To get myself and me in the right christmas mood, I want to share this video by Tim Minchin with you. It is very sentimental but absolutely great christmas song, that worked for me.
Please excuse the quality of the images – I am still fighting with my camera. But in the meantime I have prepared some save knitting needles you can take on the airplane. They are made from tape and toothpicks and knit like any other needles. Enjoy!
I wanted to show you something beautiful and colourful today , but my camera broke, so this has to wait until tomorrow.
Instead I want to show you a project, where I knitted a magical piece. This is knitted without a cut or a seam. All the shaping is done via knitting. So, how did the strap in the middle get caught?
I do have a slight obsession with knitting or crochet in the round, as you might know. And I also have a slight obsession with working mathematical concepts into my craftwork. With todays piece I have been able again to connect the two, by crochet in the round and crochet around. I did crochet a tube, used it to crochet around, crochet a tube from the occuring loops, used it to crochet around, crochet a tube …
The result is a very sturdy piece. I am very interested in trying this out on a larger scale. So most likely you will find a post soon, with massive crochet hooks I made.
Please listen to this amazing talk, which is not only funny, but also explains quite well how I feel when doing stuff for brifrischu.
This image made me really wonder today. It shows a protest done in Barcelona, by Animanaturalis. I personally felt more fascinated by the gigantic brussels sprout than the naked person, but anyhow it caught my attention immediately.
As a tribute to them I knitted with cutlery today. What I have made will stay my secret until tomorrow, but I have to say I think it looks delicious
I really like about knitting that it enables me to react quickly to my needs. Tody we have an x-mas office party and I realised yesterday evening that I need a blue belt, matching my tights. Because obviously I have nothing to wear.
But instead of running around and searching the shops feeling helpless, I just opened my magic yarn drawer and took out some shiny tape yarn, my knitting nancy and a crochet needle. And the buckle closure I have left over from a former project. Off I went.
So my only worry now is not to drink too much and photocopy body parts. I will keep you updated
One of the first things that our tutor told us in Nottingham has been that it is impossible to make knitwear stand up. I would agree partly: with a knitting machine it is impossible to make knitwear stand up. The machine is very limited considering the range of yarn it can knit with. It will quite quickly break either the yarn or the machine when an unsuitable yarn is chosen as every machine knitter learns very fast. As a handknitter one can knit with needles too tight and create a very strong and sturdy piece of knitting.
That is one of the many resons why I quite often think that handknitting as a technique needs to be preserved. If one wants to knit a basic stockinette sweater, the machine is unbeatable qiuck and neatly, but if you want something out of the ordinary you should take up some needles and get going. Check out the amazing range of things people created at yarnbombing.com.
With the small needles I now created a sample, but I have to admit I am not sure what it is. I looked at it from different angles, but I saw plenty of different things it could be. Can you tell me what you think it is and what happened? I created a group at facebook and I would love to see different people making up the story of… well, it is up to you really.
If you feel inspired, please take part with words, sketches, knits, etc and we will see where this story takes us to.
If you dont want to be part of facebook, lets tell a different story here – please use the comments or contact and I will collect and post your story.
Normally I try to knit on a large scale. But today I decided to go as tiny as I can. I made this lovely knitting nancy from a feltpen cap. It has 3 pegs, which is the smallest amount on stitches you can have on a round.
I only managed to knit this tiny strand that you can see below, made from embroidery thread, because it takes quite a long time as you can imagine.
I really don`t know why I went for knitting big this often. Knitting tiny can be absolutely lovely as you can see in mochimochiland. Enjoy!
Well, I might not be the best one to speak about this topic -not having posted anything since month – but it has been a lot on my mind lately.
