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leash her creativity when i designed books all day every day i always enjoyed creating something useful and beautiful that could be reproduced in quantity at a reasonable cost to some extent a book is a book is a book but as we all know books are judged by their covers because we are visual creatures there are rules for what makes a book bound on one side loose on the other sides to allow it to open usually with a cover and spine conveying the basic information of what s inside but within that we have goodnight moon knitter s almanac and the cheese monkeys really it s what we do within the confines of the form richard rutt in a history of hand knitting so excited to have gotten my own copy of this pivotal work regardless of its biases and limitations asks the question art or craft early on unhappily it the distinction between art and craft is coloured by intellectual snobbery as though art were in some way intrinsically higher greater or better than craft he goes into a little more depth on the differences and concludes knitting is best called a craft it serves life and is relatively ephemeral it gets worn and wears out hence museum collections are sparse it can be expensive but is almost never precious its structure is more limiting than the structures of tapestry and embroidery therefore knitting is widely practised by non professionals and tends to be a people s craft therein lies much of its interest and the fascination of knitting history i appreciate the fact that rutt notices the cult of artistic impsiration that sprang up around fine arts in the 18th century and that he sees craft as having its own value and it is interesting to be reminded how fleeting the knitted item is just the other day i wore through the tip of one of my glove fingers now i have to decide whether to fix it i do have more of the yarn or knit something new i know obnoxious problem isn t it either way knitting doesn t last forever and it isn t economically precious no matter how skillfully worked except perhaps those vestment gloves in the spence collection i ve blogged about them before worked with gold and silver threads of course it is precious to those of us who spend long hours designing and or knitting the thing let s consider it dear economically speaking when we consider the time and effort that goes into what we create as well as the dearness of some of our chosen materials quiviut anyone what do you think i know robin asked a similar question on her blog recently her readers seemed to come down on the side of art and what we do is artistic but is it art i think of art as unique though you could argue that every turn of the glass or ishbel of which there are 8868 projects on ravelry is unique a combination of yarn choice individual gauge personal preferences as to size blocking style and so forth but when i or any other designer write a pattern it is so that the item in question can be recreated by someone else s hands or my hands again i think one of the things people object to on craft is that the word has been sullied commodified dumbed down there are crafters artisans who take their craft to a very high level to the point where their creations approach art i own a nantucket basket by martin brown and i don t want to tell you what it cost it is on display on my dresser and i would probably grab it if the building were on fire it is completely different from the thing i made in summer school basket weaving at washburne in sixth grade i suppose that is a function of experience skill and yes artistry there are also those crafters who make things to pass the time who don t look at what they do as craft with a capital c not all of them pursue their craft beyond the basics but that is really what distinguishes the crafter from the artisan persistence passion and a drive for perfection i agree with reverend rutt knitting for me is craft and i m very proud of my craft you should be too posted by kathleen dames at 7 18 pm 1 comment 04 february 2011 vkl recap ok so it really did warrant an exclamation point at the inaugural vogue knitting live i was lucky enough to take classes with franklin habit fiona ellis debbie bliss merike saarnit meg swansen amy detjen and leslye solomon as well as attend lectures by stephanie pearl mcphee and mr habit and hear a panel discussion with trisha malcolm vogue knitting editor in chief stacy charles owner takhi stacy charles debbie bliss her very own cottage mansion industry melanie fallick former chief of interweave knits and editor of her own imprint at stewart tabori chang and brett bara former editor of crochet today there was a cocktail party a dinner and a big busy marketplace and there were tons of like minded folk hanging out together for three days in midtown if you re friends with me on flickr you ve already seen this picture but meeting and taking a class with meg swansen was the highlight of my weekend and i ve kicked myself for not getting a picture with meg s partner in crime amy detjen who was just as funny if not more so and knowledgeable as meg my new goal is to get to knitting camp but i started the three day weekend hustling to midtown after tossing the kids at nick to get to class with franklin it was an intimate group a dozen of us in a hotel room a real hotel room from which they had removed the beds pawing franklin s handknit samples while he talked about the history of lace knitting focusing on orenburg shetland and estonian lace franklin is a funny charming man and having taken a couple of classes with him over the years he is very good at imparting a lot of information without your feeling like you ve been lectured at i just wish i could have gotten in to his lace edging class instead i had a class with cable queen fiona ellis which i ve already put to good use in a proposal unfortunately for me i was whipped by friday afternoon after franklin s class there was stephanie s lecture on your brain on knitting which was very entertaining and enlightening then a quick scramble for some lunch n b folks who stood in that crazy starbucks line in the hotel there is another starbucks just across the street you could probably even run over there without putting on a coat and a chance meeting with a massachusetts maine knitter i really didn t even think i could make it to the cocktail party but i stuck it out spent some quality time at the marketplace which was really nice spread out over two floors with seating areas and a couple of fashion show setups unfortunately there wasn t any prosecco at the purls and prosecco reception at least while i was there and i was really beyond tired by then so had a quick drink and a super yummy mini cheeseburger appetizer and headed home saturday started with the lovely debbie bliss and a class on shaping with cables which set my brain abuzzing debbie was also generous enough to give us all a copy of her kids book essential knits for kids 20 fresh new looks for children two to five which was very lovely of her she was gracious and entertaining signing books and talking about how she got to where she is today no lecture for me that day so i had time to check out the marketplace some more when it was in full buzz my afternoon class was merike saarnit s nupps buds and bobbles which was fun and educational goodness are there a lot of ways to make those little bumps and that night was the big mohair dinner and fashion show everyone i sat with was very nice they re knitters how could they not be including one of the finalists for the mohair contest i wore my finished grés pictures to come and aside from the eggplant in the first course i m allergic the food was good however the speeches and such seemed more like an industry gathering which this sort of was although most people in the audience were knitters rather than folks who work in the industry i had to zip out of there after the mohair show to attend a dear friend s birthday party in brooklyn and was flattered to be carded hehe but even more flattered that some other party attendees really liked my sweater pardon me nick is having a wrapping emergency today is stephen s 8th birthday the red velvet cake has been baked and now some presents need to be wrapped frosting to come sunday broke far too cold and early but was so worth it when i attended meg amy s class on eps oh this was such an awesome class meg and amy are a comedy duo i loved their midwestern down to earth y ness and the samples they brought to show were beautiful ez s knits don t travel any more and with good reason but there were lots of recent meg knits and even more talk about eps though i ve read the books numerous times it was so much fun to go over it all again in person some day i m going to knitting camp and then retreat annie and i have made a pact but i think we re going to wait until the kids are a little older and i have some disposable income it is far away from everything after my awesome time with meg amy i was able to attend franklin s lecture b is for purl on the fun and insanity of deciphering antique knitting patterns loved it my afternoon class was not quite as entertaining leslye solomon is knowledgeable but she s more of a knit it in pieces type when knitty has just published my largely seamless pattern and her style of teaching didn t quite work for me i should have known i wasn t going to have quite the amazing experience of the morning when i mentioned to the woman sitting next to me that i had been in meg s class in the morning and she gave me a blank look but it was a good reminder for me that there are so many different kinds of knitters in the world and there is room for all of us at the table somewhere in there i attended the panel discussion on the role of independent designers in the handknitting industry or something like that which was interesting when the panelists include the heads of two large yarn companies a craft book editor the former editor of a popular crochet magazine and the editor of one of the biggest knitting magazines the deck seems kind of stacked against actual independent knitwear designers or maybe that s just me there were some technical issues with the microphones that made it difficult for the panelists to get into a rhythm and there was a lot of stress placed on professionalism meeting deadlines and such that seemed obvious to me but maybe it was a wake up call to others i was surprised as was the knitter next to me another massachusetts lady by the edge to the whole thing maybe it s because i worked in the publishing industry for a long time but i wanted to remind these industry leaders that without knitters and independent knitwear designers they wouldn t have much to do just as i always had to remember that without those pesky authors i wouldn t have had many covers to design or books to paginate especially these days with the methods of the delivery of information constantly changing we all need to remember that being the publisher can be in anyone s hands granted the bigger publishers have a more visible platform most of the time but even that is changing none of this is to say that you can get away with being unprofessional for long in this industry it is small and word gets around but i think the industry needs to remember that they wouldn t have much to do without knitters and somewhere else in there i met beth hahn of the charming miss flitt series was recognized by my turn of the glass on friday and saw teva durham wearing her knitty sweater lady lovelace caught sight various knitting luminaries at the market including la harlot mr brooklyn tweed and ms go knit in your hat i know there were others and i had fun meeting people myself so that s my wrap up of vkl sorry for the delay on that but things are very busy chez purly more on that soon posted by kathleen dames at 11 18 am 1 comment 02 february 2011 turn of the glass faq first of all thanks to all of you who liked turn of the glass i hope those of you who knit it like yours as much as i like mine wearing it again today since its publication i ve received some questions and thought i would reiterate my answers here in case other knitters had similar questions but if i haven t answered yours please ask q what other yarns might work a not everyone can use madeline tosh dk for whatever reason if you are looking for a similar hand kettle dyed yarn malabrigo rios would be a good choice and is also superwash a knitter has already worked up the sweater in malabrigo merino worsted which must feel dreamy but it certainly pills the tradeoff you must accept when working with this yarn since tosh dk is something of a light worsted cascade 220 regular or superwash would work as would berocco s vintage or plymouth encore goodness there are lots of yarns in this range q wait i thought the yarn you used was a dk weight but you re talking about worsted weight which is it and under materials it is listed as 50g skein but on ravelry it looks like tosh dk is sold in 100g skeins a it is a little confusing but tosh dk is a heavy dk or light worsted yarn it used to be called tosh worsted but the company renamed it to align some other yarn names tosh worsted is now a single ply yarn and the yarn used to knit this sweater tosh dk is a multiple ply which will make it a little sturdier the yarn comes in 100g skeins the listing of 50g skein is a typo q i m having trouble getting started with the chart do i have to worry about mirroring the cables on the other half any advice a although these look like cables technically they are twisted ribs you don t need to use a cable needle to work them since they only involve two stitches the twisted ribs are set up so that you don t have to worry about mirroring by working an odd number of ribs and adding a pair at each increase all you have to do is remember which rib to work next let s call little hourglass rib a and twisted cross stitch rib b in the first row of ribbing after working seed stitch and stockinette work the ribs as follows b a b a b after working four rows bookend these ribs with a pair of a s for those who have trouble with charts here are the rib patterns written out little hourglass rib row 1 ws k2 p2 k2 repeat from to end row 2 p2 k2tog b then k2tog the same stitches again through the front loops p2 repeat from to end row 3 k2 p1 yo p1 k2 repeat from to end row 4 p2 ssk k1 p2 repeat from to end reverse cross stitch rib row 1 ws k2 p 2nd stitch and leave on left needle p 1st stitch and slip both stitches to right needle k2 repeat from to end row 2 p2 k2 p2 repeat from to end q how do i choose a size a that depends upon your measurements but it s probably best to go by your chest measurement since the ribs are more elastic the ribbed section can stretch quite a bit without looking stretched out and still through the play of light and shadow on the purl and twisted sections of the ribs give the illusion of a curvier figure than you may have can you tell that i m a 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