:: Bamboo daisies

Posted by Kirsty on March 16, 2008 | Permalink

I really love working with bamboo yarn - it’s so silky and soft and completely natural. Though it does freak me out that I could potentially sit on a bamboo chair, wearing a bamboo cardigan, eating bamboo shoots in black bean sauce, crochetting with bamboo yarn with a bamboo hook; surely no one thing should be that versatile? Freaky plant!

Anyway… this scarf is the finished product of my piles of crochetted daisies. I couldn’t find any chocolate brown bamboo yarn, but I did find these lovely, vibrant purple and pink shades that go perfectly with the baby blue. I already working on another one in duck egg blue and cream that reminds me of Wedgwood. I’m all about warm weather scarves this year!

Categories: craft
Tags: bamboo, crochet, daisies, flowers

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:: Crocheted flowers

Posted by Kirsty on March 7, 2008 | Permalink

I’m pretty pleased with my crocheted rose; well, I am with this second attempt. The first time round, I managed to completely miss a row out and couldn’t understand why it looked all scrumpled. I used the pattern by Megan Mills, though her’s looks a lot more refined than mine. The effects that you can get with different yarns are fantastic - I think Megan must have used a cotton yarn, while I used alpaca wool. I added the leaf for a finishing touch, making up the pattern by going ‘maybe I should increase here, oh yes!’
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Categories: craft
Tags: crochet, flowers, rose, scarf

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:: Make time - meet Clothkits

Posted by Joelle on February 24, 2008 | Permalink

I’m filled with a mixture of relief and excitement tonight, after visiting the Clothkits launch at the Kids.Modern show today. Turns out I was actually kind of nervous about it. I’ve got such warm nostalgia for the old 70s brand, and had long harboured ideas about trying to relaunch a similar thing, so I was worried that the new owner, Kay Mawer, and the new designs would not live up to my high hopes.
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Categories: craft, shopping
Tags: annabel waterman, birds, clothkits, colour, flowers, jane foster, kids.modern, kits, rob ryan, scandinavian design, sewing

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