All Day Long

Love, love, love these images from Veronik Avery's upcoming book, Knitting 24/7. Even with the much-discussed "renaissance" of knitting, there still remains a dearth of patterns that are both interesting to knit and don't look like something my nana would wear. Veronik knows what's up.

Blue Bandit

Some more spring knitting. Sometimes I think knitting is the only thing keeping me sane, though truthfully I'm probably heading toward a sad future in which I suffocate under an avalanche of knitted oddities and am not found until days later in an eternal tangle of yarn.

"I know I survived the hard times by being obsessed," says Sonja Ahlers, and I'm inclined to agree.

Um... yeah. Happy spring!

The yarn is a silk/merino blend from Painted Fleece, pattern is Springtime Bandit by Kate Gagnon Osborn.

Knitomatic

For the past few months, I've been dreaming of making a stop-motion film involving knitting. Alas, I've been beat to the punch! (Never mind the fact that I have zero film-making ability.)

This amazing commercial, from Natural Gas Belgium, takes the concept of warming up a house quite literally.



You can also watch how it was made:

Veyla

Little spring things.
Pattern by ysolda, knit in malabrigo sock yarn.

I scanned a few looks from one my most treasured pattern booklets. Vintage knitting patterns are notoriously difficult to execute, but gee golly, the results are incredible.











Sometimes I imagine how lovely it would be if we still lived in a world where dapper dress and perfectly-rouged lips were a requirement. Such poise, such elegance, such grace...

Then I think how much effort it would take to get ready just to schlep over to 7-Eleven and talk to that weird checkout boy Dmitri and, well, it doesn't seem quite worth it.

What is it with the colour purple? I think 90% of the things I've knitted in the past year have been some shade of violet, lavender, aubergine, heliotrope, amaranthine... god, the synonyms for purple are fucking fantastic (thanks, thesaurus.com!).

Uh... just ignore the crotch shot, I implore you.

Featherweight Cardigan by Hannah Fettig

i used to live next to the cutest, most incredibly well-stocked bookstore, bryan prince. i stumbled upon quite a few gems there, one of my favourites being sonja ahlers' hand drawn novel fatal distraction. her work is charming, odd, witty, melancholy, plus a billion other adjectives that don't really do it any justice.

i was lucky enough to stumble across sonja's work again, this time on etsy. her handmade fierce bunnies are seriously coveted!