Knit Design Online Student Blog

Category: Miscellaneous

  • Wonderful hoard of treasured lace and bits & pieces

    This lovely old box of bits & pieces came from my friend Sandra’s Auntie Louie, who was a society lady of the mink coat brigade.  She would be well over 100 if she were still alive. Some of the lace pieces were obviously cut from dresses or underwear and I particularly love the collars and…

  • Visit to Black Hills Farm

    Organiser Sue arranged a brilliant day out for us today, we travelled to Black Hills Farm where student Beverley Forrester lives and runs her impressive fibre empire (buy her yarn in Thane, near Oxford). She grows the sheep has them sheared and the fleeces commercially spun. The yarns are self coloured and her flock are…

  • Old knit books viewable online

    Here is a real treat, the Winchester School of Art Knitting Reference Library has, as promised, begun digitising books in its collection for online viewing. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/library/bopcris/wsa.html

  • ‘Very Pink’ online video technique tutorials

    I haven’t actually looked at the tutorials this site contains but got it from a link on the UKHKA, so am sure it must be good. http://verypink.com/category/techniques/basics/

  • Knit-bits storage

    Rosalind was using a great fishing tackle storage folder and here is the link to her blog containing details & images.  I use a small one, bought on Amazon,  for storing & transporting knit bits & pieces and find it perfect.  These larger ones are definitely going on my wish list. https://thebeakies.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/needle-storage/ https://thebeakies.wordpress.com

  • Stitched sampler dated 1667

    The name of the stitcher is Susan Carter.  Not a name in our ancestry, so not sure how it came to the family.  The magazine clipping was with it & it sounds as if the then owner was unaware of its value & was using it as a table runner!  I love it.  Do you…

  • Copyright article

    Jonathan Walford’s interesting post on copying / design copyright.  There are other interesting ‘articles’ in the links it contains too. http://kickshawproductions.com/blog/?p=10356

  • Pinterest for sourcing inspiration

    I know some of you use Pinterest. If you haven’t discovered it yet, you have a visual treat in store.  I use Pinterest boards to direct students to things I think may be useful to them when they are stuck for inspiration.  You can search for anything (e.g. Fair isle knitting or Landscape) and lots…

  • Clothworkers’ Centre Shetland shawl continued

    Taken from  barbaraknitsagain.blogspot.com Article about Shetland lace knitting in the Dundee Evening Telegraph from February 1893.  fascinating account of the quality of the knitting then being done in the Shetlands. These FINE LACE SHAWLS are made all over the islands, but the island of Unst and Lerwick (meaning Shetland) may be said to do the…

  • Important: copyright of V&A pictures

    I had to sign (on behalf of the group) an agreement that we wouldn’t use or publish photos taken during our study visit.  I am legally bound to keep to this, or I risk court proceedings and being banned from using the study centre again.  So please don’t download the photos shown on the blog…