Ahhh yess I know it has been forever since I last updated this thing and I have in fact now finished my non heartbreak cardigan. And its great and massive. And I have also knitted my dad a jumper with the same yarn. I have so much of it left! Probably by the end of the year every single member of my family is going to have some sort of knitted grey garment. We’ll probably start to look like a pack of slightly thinner elephants. As I am now knitting my sister Alice some Bella mittens probably my sister grace some too. But after I have finished knitting all this yarn up I am going to have to knit something with some colour otherwise I'm going to probably lose my mind.
Anyway here are some picture of my dads jumper, its from the same book as the non-heartbreak cardigan, which is a really good book for men's knitwear.
Ok so I’m on placement in probably the most expensive city in the world. And as it a fashion placement that means pennies per hour to cover “expenses” BUT I’m a fashion student right? Yes that is right so there is one as aspect I could maybe save some money on right, right hopefully you see where I going with this…
So from now on I will be making my own clothes, so far since starting work placement seeing as I live with my nana in Essex and have no friends here I’ve made one jumper on ye old knitting machine and made a lovely dress for Richard Nicholl but sadly not appreciated by Richard Nicholl. Never mind.
OK so yes my project as the moment is a cardigan. As it getting cold! So I trawled the entire Internet and through many a pattern books but could find one I liked. Then I remembered the cardigan I started knitting for my then boyfriend about a year ago, just about a month before he chucked me. (yes the myth is truth you knit something for your significant other is moment they run off with the blonde from his university halls or whatever) but for me yes lovely. I can’t cheat on myself so this cardigan is heartbreak free.
The pattern is from a book by Erika knight a reallh reallh fab knitwear designer. And the book is called Men’s knits a new direction and you can get it here. I haven’t used the yarn they recommend as its one nearly £10 a pop and its discontinued nearly everywhere. But I do have some lovely yarn “donated” from my university, which needs using for something!
So yes I’m rambling MASSIVELY so here are pictures of the non-heartbreak cardigan so far…
This is the back the purple bit are marking the pockets
And this is the left front and as far as I have got so far, but a two hour commute each way every day means I’ll probably have this bad boy done in about a month although now I have said that. It’ll probably be finished sometime after my 70th birthday.
Hopefully the final outcome. One day... preferably before it get cold
the other day I was browsing through net-a-porter's knit wear collection (for research of course not for any form of purchase!) and stumbled across this. A Peruvian wool vest that you can knit yourself. So I did a little research (googled the name) and came across wool and the gang website. now the prices I know are a little steep for the novice student knitter. But I think its a really good concept and on the website they have plenty of other designs at a slightly(ish) more reasonable price. They also have video tutorials and a few free patterns. Finally a truly young knitwear company really fab designs. they also have a blog with some lovely inspirational images on there!
I bloody love the cross over between graphic design and textiles, especially embroidery or cross stitch. St. Martins (surprise! surprise!) MA graduate Evelin Kasikov developed her own CMYK cross stitch technique and it's amazing! Her show Craft Meets Music opens the 14th of may at the craft central in london. fabby.
