“Warm”

“Warm” is the perfect title for an artwork which celebrates that wonderful fibre, wool. Lisa Kendall came up with the idea after talking with a local woolgrower, fibre artist Georgie Nicolson devised the patterns, the design was created by artist Lars Stenberg, and with the help of 200 knitters worldwide including Australia, the building blocks of this installation were created. The idea is to raise awareness of the carbon footprint we create when, having forgotten how to warm ourselves up with wool, we switch on the extra heater instead!  Think…

Yolanda’s Cardigan

I knitted this vibrant cardigan over 40 years ago. I still love it, and wear it occasionally. So I was very pleased to find this little treasure recently in the course of trawling through knitting books in an op shop. It’s the original pattern book, full of gorgeous designs by top textile designers of the day. Typical of the 80’s every garment is stylish and superbly coloured! I’m definitely going to knit another one of these beauties! My cardigan was designed by Yolanda Cholmondely-Smith, whom I actually met way back…