Knitting, Crochet and Other Yarn Arts
I've been knitting and crocheting since 2005 and I'm active on the fibre arts social network Ravelry - here's my projects page if you're interested. Knitting enables me to be creative and experimental.
My favourite projects are the ones where I combine texture, pattern and colour to create something totally unexpected. The striped scarf shown here is made from one yarn that constantly changes colour and another almost invisible yarn that is 25% stainless steel. The yarn with stainless steel is incredibly fine but very resilient, you can scrunch or stretch the fabric and it'll hold.
I was a co-founder of a successful knitters social group in Moseley, Birmingham. We grew the group from just two of us in a corner to a thriving network, where skills and techniques were shared, yarn and needles were traded and lifelong friends were made. We even took part in some art projects.
My favourite projects are the ones where I combine texture, pattern and colour to create something totally unexpected. The striped scarf shown here is made from one yarn that constantly changes colour and another almost invisible yarn that is 25% stainless steel. The yarn with stainless steel is incredibly fine but very resilient, you can scrunch or stretch the fabric and it'll hold.
I was a co-founder of a successful knitters social group in Moseley, Birmingham. We grew the group from just two of us in a corner to a thriving network, where skills and techniques were shared, yarn and needles were traded and lifelong friends were made. We even took part in some art projects.
Ambitious Embroidery Projects
I've also got ambitious long running projects like this cross-stitched version of a treasure map from a fondly remembered computer game (Monkey Island 2). It is a pixel-by-pixel adaptation of the original image, although the palette size has been shrunk to enable efficient colour matching. The final project will be about 30cm x 50cm and contain more than 40000 stitches.
