I have not blogged in ages, and i have no excuse.
So moving on; just stumbled across this on youtube. I love the idea that the scale of the craft makes the viewer want to know how it’s made – that the end result can make you want to understand the mechanics of the craft.
For me though, those gloves just fitted in seamlessly into the miniature world of Coraline. Really inspiring stuff.

We had our first munchies breakfast this morning, with a little group of folk from harvest. The brief was simple, just chat about our creative ideas and eat some grub.

We did both.

This week conversation focused mostly on oyster cards and oyster card holders. Why are they so ugly? How come you only ever see ikea ads on them? Why do they fall apart? Why wont TFL let us hack them?

I also showed off my knitted oyster card holder i just finished. Plus, I’ve got a breakfast challenge planned for next week…

My Auntie Rose died this morning. Overall, it’s very sad, but she was 90 years old (a great aunt, you see), which is a good innings in anyone’s book.

Rose was a prolific knitter, and knitted literally hundreds and hundreds of squares, making blankets for lots of different charities… the kind of productivity some of us could only dream of.

Ahh. The humble knitted square. As fancy or as straight up and down as you like. A long bit of string in a great big knot – but don’t be fooled, a knitted square might change the world:

Clean water

Back in 2007 iKnit London created a knitted river over 2000 ft long to raise awareness of of Water aid international. See all the photos here Can you see my square? It’s in there somewhere…

Curing Cancer

Stitch and Bitch London created a 52ft scarf for London’s Lions in Trafalgar Square, raising money for Cancer research.

So where does this leave me? It leaves me knitting some humble little squares, trying to change the world with bits of string.

I’m now the proud owner of a pair of huge knitting needles, from wool ‘n’ boats
I’m completely in love with them. They come up to my shoulders and lead to several interesting conversations with strangers at the bar and bus stop last night.

My first giant knitting attempt at fabrications produced this

Its a kind of collar / wrap thingy. Ok, not sure when or where exactly I (or anyone else for that matter) would wear such a thing, but knitting with strips of fabric (in this case lace) is an absolute revelation to me.

As is casting on this way

Rather than this way

This is the sort of thing that is very exciting for my inner knitting geek.

For some big knitting inspiration, check out:
Sebastian Schönheit’s massive knitted rope fabric

robots in disguise

musical critters

bit violent this one, but i like the little ratty

The weather’s geting nice, and its started to make me think about crafting in the great outdoors and getting down with nature.
Heres a few twiggy crafts to get the thoughts flowing

Cute acorn pattern

a handy volume for knitting in the woods

Tree paintings by Samuel Francois

twiggums by cursivedesign allows you to make your own arrangement of sprogs.

finaly, something sweet and mad…
Sugart create tempory sugary forests.