Smart and cosy!

Despite the current Melbourne heatwave a new smart phone must be kept cozy in crochet!!

Post painterly abstraction and knitting!

Valerie Anne Molnar's knitted installations are completely inspirational. She combines the knitted object with abstract painterly images. Her fantastic use of optimistic and exuberant colours is intoxicating but her stag horn ferny fronds are my favorite. Check out her work here.

Valerie Anne Molnar: detail of Mellyn

2009

Hand Knit Acrylic Yarn and Acrylic Paint on Wall

8.5'h x 5'w

Installation at Moderno, Washington DC

Valerie Anne Molnar: Detail of Brown Sporangia Completely Cover Discrete Areas Of The Undersides Of The Fertile Frond Lobes

2011

Hand Knit Acrylic Yarn and Acrylic Paint on Wall

18'h x 19'w

Valerie Anne Molnar: Brown Sporangia Completely Cover Discrete Areas Of The Undersides Of The Fertile Frond Lobes
Installation at ADA Gallery

2012

Hand Knit Acrylic Yarn and Acrylic Paint on Wall

10' x10'

More Passap love

I have finally managed to knit some scarves on my Passap, I crocheted the ends to form a cowl and love the outcome!! Looking forward to exploring more patterns and techniques and hoping for some cool weather to put them to use.

Passap love

This is where have I been. 

Getting to know my new Passap knitting machine. 

It is a steep learning curve and after months of frustrating Passap tangles and tantrums I have finally made a little progress managing to knit a little scarf in pattern with the computer- Hooray!!!

I have now moved out of the battling the machine phase to new Passap love!!

One week to go...

There is still time to see this year's Scarf Festival at the Wool Museum in Geelong- 

Exhibition finishes on September 2nd 2012.

Garden visitor

An early morning visitor to my garden - 

luckily the grass is delicious enough
so all my vegetables are still safe
and I can enjoy the curious kangaroo antics!!

It is on its way!

My entry for the 2012 Scarf Festival at the Geelong Wool Museum is finally complete and in the mail on its way to the exhibition. After investing in a huge 15 litre dye pot that was big enough to submerge the scarf in dye and simmering for 40mins, the real hard work started as I hand felt all my work. This was not helped by my tiny kitchen with no room for the 3.5m+ length!! After felting, the scarf measures 290cm- so is still long enough to wrap up in a soft bubbly cloud of colour. The exhibition runs from 16th of June until 2nd of September- put it in your diary!!