Purlpuri: 2011

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

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Thursday, 16 June 2011

I have picked up drawing again, as I knit all day for work. These are very satisfying to draw. They start as doodles, when I am in a situation with a notebook and my head starts to wonder. The one with the lines started to take over my notebook page when I was in a seminar for Education Health and Safety Law training and the other one was when I went to a pub and the football was on. See I didn't say "to watch football". I can't really force these drawings, so I suppose I should start attending lectures and seminars so often to get this drawing flow going. I do enjoy listening some lectures, I find things interesting, but I have never been very good just sitting still quietly. For example, I don't really choose to go to a cinema for very often. Sitting in a dark room quietly for two hours- waste of time. If it wasn't for other people, I don't think I'd go to a cinema, probably never.. Though funnily I like watching films very much. I wonder what that's about.

But anyways, here is the drawings:

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Pointelle Samples

Since working at Make Piece I have been learning a bunch of new techniques. This one is called the pointelle, though I have used this in my garments before, though I didn't know it was called pointelle !

I have also been trying to find the time to do my own garments, and I have one going! Here is a little taste of it:

Now I start making a move towards the studio to see what I can make of this last one then! Have been sitting on a computer now for hours...

Bye!

V

Knitmaster Book Volume 4

I just put these pictures of the knitmaster book for you to see, what is possible with Fair Isle punchcards. It's only a couple of samples, my own notes for thinking of my work, but also for people to see that I can do these things made to order and you can pop in and see me if you want something made for you from these patterns and the patterns that I have already written. (See collections from www.cargocollective.com/valpurivihriala

The last drop performance at the Victoria Baths

Images from: http://yuchenwang.com/blog/

Here is a piece that I got involved with recently. It was an outcome of the residency of Yu-Chen Wang at the Chinese Arts Centre and with a different collaborations between artists in different medias and areas it ended in a performance at the Victoria Baths.

The performance was interesting in a great surroundings. It was exciting to be a part of it. The Cornerhouse will show a film about the performance later this year and there will also be a Yu-Chen's artist book published by the Chinese Arts Centre.

Click on here to see more pictures and information about the performance and Yu-Chen's residency:

http://yuchenwang.com/blog/2011/05/20/futureeverything-festival-2011-yu-chen-wang-the-splash-and-a-last-drop-victoria-baths/

Also go see:

http://cargocollective.com/aliyahhussain#895392/Aliyah-Hussain

Warming up.

Hello everyone!

I can't believe that I have left so long not to update my blog. I have been concentrating mostly in my placement at Make Piece, and it has taken a lot of my time. Also I couldn't think of anything to write, that would have been more important than the photoshoot we did. I thought it would be important what comes first when you open my blog. But problem solved, I have now done an online portfolio, that I can just put the important pictures and they will stay there. Here is the address for that:

www.cargocollective.com/valpurivihriala.

I just had a little think and it seems that I have a lot to catch up on with the blog. There has been quite a few things going on lately and they are all very exciting, so of course I must share these things with you. Anyhow I decided to start this blog shooting lightly. I would like to quote my dear friend Suvi, who quotes her dear friend Jack N: " All work and no play makes a Jack a dull boy". So this post will be a little bit about other stuff than just knitting or work. We get to the serious stuff again in the next post, when I have warmed up a little bit for this writing.

The thing that I wanted to share with you all, is something that me and Riku made together. Something beautiful, big and using the great force of nature. We made a Pizza!

I try to keep my Sundays free, when I am free to sleep how ever late I want, and do whatever I want and eat whatever I want. I really like cooking, but I'm often too tired for that after work. But Sundays I like to make a bit of effort for the cooking, it's just something that is good to do together. Though often my vision of what I want to cook is so specific that I hardly let anybody help me, but I am working towards a better, non-control freak me. So last Sunday me and Richard decided to make a pizza as there was loads of stuff in the fridge that needed eaten. Also I often have frozen fresh yeast in the freezer. I have tried to bake pizzas with dried yeast- it doesn't work out for me. All and all I don't think my pizza making skills are the same than they were when I lived in Finland. I have tried to think why that is. Is it the oven trays? Is the water? Is the yeast and flower? i don't understand it. But anyway, these pizzas were delicious.

This is how I make a nice pizza dough:

fresh yeast, use about a size of half a golf ball (I buy mine from Barbakan, Chorlton, it only lives for one day, but you can freeze the rest)
hot water (2 dl about)
Oil
Salt
Plain flower

Melt the yeast in the water, add salt and oil, then start adding flour and keep mixing and adding until the dough don't stick on your hands anymore. I suggest you only use one hand that you mix in the dough, otherwise you are in trouble if you try to do anything else in the middle, like answer the phone, open the door or finding a knife from the drawer that you can keep scraping the dough of from your hand. So yeah, it's well easy. Then you spread the dough in the oven trays, keep pushing it with your fingers gradually over the oven trays and be careful not to make holes. I tend to do mine really thin crust, but you can do yours however you want. If you even going to make a pizza.

We got about three trays of pizza from the dough I made, so we decided to make one and a half each, was great fun!

Riku is putting courgettes on the pizza.

My pizza had: onion,garlic, pesto, cherry tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, olives, courgette, feta cheese and emmental cheese

Riku's pizza had: ham, mushrooms, peppers, danish salami, spinach and cheese.

I also made well nice chopped tomatoes and fresh herbs and garlic mix for the tomato base. Oh my god I am hungry now, why did I choose to make this blog before I have even had breakfast?