Elana Herzog

Today I received an invitation of Elana Herzog, an amazing Textile artist, for the opening of her new exhibition. I've never seen her work in real life, but only from looking at the small pictures I am impressed. If you happen to be around the New Britain Museum of American Art between may 7th-july 25th please have a look and let me know. Did it touch you? This picture was send with her invitation. It is hers and it'll be shown there.

speciaal voor Nel

Look this is what I do with my koninginnedagtreasures. No final outcome yet.

color

Results of experiment with Landscape Dyes and different types of yarn that I bought from her. She provides excellent service and helped me figure out problems I had with yarn and dyes that did not react the way I wanted it.
The greens are dyed with "Daintree", reds come from "Salmon gum", yellows from "Broome" and blues from "Pacific". The shades are made by dipping short or keep the yarns longer in the dyebath exhausting the dye, or adding a little Currawong black to the dye. Also I dyed different types of yarn (100% wool, 25 % polyester, yarn that was prepared with chemicals and acryl)
I keep a notebook in order to be able to reproduce the results.

koninginnedag

Treasures from Koninginnedag.

so disappointing

This is how the beautiful skein turned out in knitwear. I am as disappointed as I thought I would be. The dyed skein (3 blogs ago) is much more beautiful than the knitted item .
I knitted the marineparts of the yarn in purl-stich, the rest was knitted in knit-stich. I used the leg from this pattern (circle socks), and the construction of the personal footprint for Insouciant Sock Knitters from Cat Bordhi.

YarnPrincess

This picture is for her. It fits her birthday vases I think.

Ootjiestas voor vrouwen uit Spakenburg

Deze Ootjies tas is ontworpen door Lotte van Laatum voor een van de projecten van www.hetwildeoog.nl. Het patroon staat op een poster die je bij hen kunt bestellen. Er staat dan weer niet op hoe je de tas verder afwerkt, zodat dat aan de maakster zelf over wordt gelaten. Een bijzonder project om een nieuw perspectief op verdwijnend erfgoed te geven. De foto van Spakenburgse vrouwen met de tas is gekopieerd van de site van het wilde oog. Zo kun je zien hoe de tas bedoeld is.