twinkle

Speaking of Wenlan Chia, her new book Twinkle's Weekend Knits will be out in February. Judging from the cover image I'm sure I'll be knitting plenty from this collection!



Also, some pretty pieces from twinkle's Holiday runway collection that I would love to own/make.

calling all hip chunky knitters...

This just appeared in my mailbox from Wenlan herself:

Hey, twinkle's beloved knitting supporters,

The 2nd "Knitting in the City" chunky knit class hosted at Anthropologie is
taking place at 7PM on 9/27 at Anthropologie's Rockerfeller Center store. As
some of you might know, the first class was very successful.

The 2nd class will have a bigger audience and have more media coverage.
Anthropologie has given this class more exclusive shopping spree. We
currently have about 110 RSVP, including editor from major media. Important
press such as the New York magazine, Vogue Knitting, Metro TV will all cover
the event.
With the amazing RSVP presents, we are calling all of you chunky knit lovers
to join me as an assistant to this fabulous night of knitting, networking,
champagne and Hors d'ouvre. The volunteer assistants will receive free
twinkle clothes of your choice to wear and to keep for the event. And at the
same time enjoy special discount from Anthropologie for shopping through out
the night.

Those of you who are interested of being an assistant for the event, please
contact Leon and Tiffany for details. Thanks.

Wenlan

Anthropologie and knitting are possibly my two very favorite things. Holy moly. I wish I lived in New York!

Ulla Johnson

I can't get enough of these sideways cable sweaters. This one is by Ulla Johnson.

lazy sunday morning

Well hello there.

After a week of driving across the midwest, interviewing for jobs, working a fashion event at Hermes in Chicago and then working at my boutique in Louisville the next morning, it was quite nice to have some down time today. My life has been crazy and stressful (but in a good way) trying to figure out where I'm going to be and what I'm going to be doing. I don't want to say too much in case it doesn't work out, but hopefully some big changes will be happening for this girl. And change, in my book, is very good.

Speaking of change, that is all the projects on my needles keep doing. About a week ago I started working on the Counterpane Clutch (which you can find a great picture of from Girl Who Knits). I began using some Baby Alpaca from Alpaca With a Twist that I had lying around. The yarn in wonderfully soft and luxurious, but just doesn't seem to hold enough shape and stiffness for the clutch. I haven't been able to make it to the yarn store because of my hectic schedule, but when I do I plan to keep going on this sucker.

So, off the needles came the Counterpane Clutch and on went what I'm calling Baby Eleanor. It is a modification of the Lady Eleanor pattern from Scarf Style. I don't like how just incredibly large the original scarf is, so I decreased it from multiples of 8 stitches to multiples of 6, and decreased the number of stitches I cast on to 30. I'm pleased with the result of those decreases, but even more pleased with the tweedy goodness and gorgeous colors of the Noro Silk Garden I'm using. It seems like the yarn was made just for this project - it's perfect!

Here is a peak of some of the progress made while laying in my bed and knitting this morning:


Mmmm, Sunday mornings and knitting.

Other activities from the day include: listening to the Marie Antoinette soundtrack on repeat at least 20 times, watching Fay Grim - an indie detective film by Hal Hartley that is a continuation of his 1997 film Henry Fool (you should watch them both), and reading the new Michel Houllebecq book, The Possibility of an Island. All fabulous things if you ask me.

I know I've been promising FO's for a while now, yet have not shown any evidence that said garments are, in fact, almost finished. So please don't lose faith in me! They're coming...