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Nadine Sterk, Sleeping Beauty, 2006, Design Academy Eindhoven, Atelier.
Jeff Werner writes,
“A lamp that develops like a living organism: switch it on and it slowly starts growing by knitting its own lampshade at a speed of three rotations per hour.”
I was excited to see this in person, having just discovered it in a grad catalogue [...]
As much as I love just looking at, petting, and photographing my own handspun, it’s come to my attention that one can also actually knit with it, too! Imagine that!
So I did.
Here’s my sweet baby James playing his birthday guitar* (Epiphone John Lennon acoustic electric from Utah’s own Guitar Czar) and wearing his birthday [...]
This “lovely” vest is one of the first things I ever knit, way back in 2002, and as I was knitting I awaited the moment I could wear it with sweet anticipation. Sadly, it went horribly wrong, but I was so inexperienced I kept myself in denial until the very end.
I learned a [...]
This is only the second short row heel I’ve ever knit, and the first short row toe. Previously I knit short row garter heels from Lucy Neatby’s Cool Socks, Warm Feet, but this heel and toe is from Priscilla Gibson Roberts’ Simple Socks, Plain and Fancy, with a little help from my [...]