Saturday, June 30, 2007

Swedish crafts

At Form, a designcenter in Malmö there´s a exibition on different crafts. Form is situated at Hedmanska Gården at Lilla torg, closed on mondays.
Embroidery typical of south Sweden
Flowers from felted wool on a bedspread
Embroidery and "rya" a kind of loop style, this is a design by Katarina Brieditis, one of my favourite designers. Has done a lot of work for IKEA and other companies and is a master knitter! one of the women behind Doredo; a bok and an exibition about felting old wool sweathers and making new and cool things from them.
A basket with wool pieces for decoration
Decorations made of metal- something and paper, the stands are wood

Jazz


Sunday, June 24, 2007

Dacapo

I´ve wrote of Hanne Falkenberg before and did a homemade version of her Promenade shawl. I got some of her patterns from a friend and had to try it out! This woman is a knitting genius! I started on the sleeve on the Dacapo jacket...
...and look at this edge! The last and first 3 stitches are knit in a special way what keeps the knitted piece from stretching ( as all my bias knitted scarfs do!!!)and the edge looks great too!
Here´s the back piece that also is a part of the front
and here is the sleeve that are going to be knitted together with the back
and then you pick up the rest from the back
and knit them and joining the stitches from the arm, like this
It is really very easy to knit you just have to do as Hanne says!
Now I´m working on the second sleeve ( together with some other projects of course...)

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Felted flowers

I went to a computer class last week and the teacher was wearing this scarf. It was made in a very soft net and wool in different colors. I don´t know if she made it herself, but I liked it