Hello!

Haven't been writing here for a while as I have been working on one piece, which is going to be big! Anyhow, I thought it would be good to update even a little bit so here is a photo how my tiling career is coming along.

Some finished fashion items

Hi all,

Here is some images from recent knitted garments I have made. There is Neil with his gray jumper, with cable (comissioned knitwear).

Neil is wearing his gray jumper in Grindsmith Cafe, run by him and Ben. The best coffee in town, all fair trade and also working as a gallery. Find Grindsmith on Hilton Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester. The next art preview is going to be next Monday. More information: http://www.grindsmith.com/.

Next garment is very bright red Scandi Jumper with colour pattern. I love it! It is available to buy. Contact me if you would like it. I am wanting to take more images of it, so that the style of it is all visible.

And there is the Sequin Leggins. Very much fun for me to make, but they need slight adjustments, or if you are a tiny girl with very little legs, you might like them. Not available for sale.

That is all for now, hopefully I have some time to make lots more!

Knitted tiles at the Moonfish Gallery

"Test will be a group show consisting of various artists with diverse and unique takes on all their individual fields. They will all be exhibiting their new and exciting lines of work in preparation for their up and coming degree show. The pieces will express this transitory stage in the artists work, displaying strong ideas that will manifest these ideas into the surrounding space of the Easa HQ." -Curator Dafydd Jones

My piece is done with my knitting machine (Leila). The tiles are all 15cm by 15cm.

Exhibition is going on until 31st of March.

Saturday project

Samples

These samples are made with the knitting machines at the university, and I chose to present them as tiles. Here are.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Leila!

Before Leila arrived, I had to make a few re-arrangements in my house. There was a piano in the corner of the living room, well we just had to get rid of that, thank you Laura for picking it up :) I did like to play with it sometimes, but it was driving my housemates mad, as I can only play one song, which is Gary Numan's "Are friends electric". Yeah it is a brilliant song, but I was playing it constantly one weekend from 11 am from the morning until 2 in the afternoon, and then had a little lunch break, carried on until 10 pm. Nice isn't it. I was just so excited as I learned the song from youtube, that I wanted to keep playing it so I wont forget it. Anyway, Leila. After the piano went, I moved some furniture out from my room to the living room, emptied one corner which had all sorts of old crap from the people who haven't lived in this house for years. Then, finally I got a desk in my room (thank you Konrad), and then one Sunday, couple of weeks ago, after I was teaching a knitting workshop with Rachael at the Town Hall (international women's day), Leila arrived.

Leila is a Toyota KS 950. At the university I have been using Zippy Plus, Knitmaster and Silver Reel, when learning to knit. So there was a little new learning process with Leila at the start. A bit of frustration here and there. But I have gone trough quite a lot of stuck stitches with Leila, she is very good with that. And I am pretty impressed with myself that I managed to put the machine together. At the moment I am concentrating on an art project, but hopefully soon I get to try to make a garment with a machine, as I haven't done more than samples so far. I also have a double bed Toyota Ribber, but I thought I might need to go trough some tutorial at the University to use double bed domestic machine, as I have only used it couple of times a year ago. I think it is a good idea to learn the single bed Toyota first.

Now look at Leila, isn't she a beauty!

Something from the past

As a third year student, you come to think about the future a lot. What are you going to do when University is over? I wish I could just live in the student world forever, never facing the real world. Lately I have been thinking a lot about what I want to do after, I don't want to pigeon hole myself. I like making garments with knitting, and I also like doing art things. These images what I am putting up, are old, but they are here to remind myself that I should start to think about the next collection as well. All the garments on images is hand-knitted by me. The models are myself and Paul, and the photos are taken by me. I actually produced these images for portfolio purpose, that is why I still probably have them. Have a lidl look !