Graffiti

Some shots from Leake Street.

I'm not sure if it's clear what's going on in these next pictures. There are headless plastic bodies with lightbulbs inside hanging from the roof of the railway arch. Obviously.

Snoooooood!

The last of the August knitting projects - a snood in a very fancy silk/mohair yarn with tiny gold beads. The yarn is Artyarns Beaded Rhapsody. It's a lovely yarn, really soft and lustrous, but it is prone to splitting at the slightest provocation. The pattern is a modified version of Persnickety Knitter's Zigzag Lace Scarf. Instead of knitting two sections and grafting them together to make a scarf, I knitted one long piece and grafted the ends together to make a snood. (There wasn't enough yarn for a satisfyingly long scarf.)

Viking hat and beard

This is the second of the three knitting projects I've been working on this month: a Viking helmet* and beard for a friend.

The hat is a heavily modified version of this pattern by Becky Veverka, but with the horns designed by sar. The beard was made using Melissa Campbell's crochet beard pattern. (Unfortunately, I think you can only get that pattern via Ravelry - apologies non-Ravelry users!)

* Except it's generally agreed that Vikings didn't actually wear horned helmets. Oh well.

Fashion & Textile Children's Trust

I spent some time this week at PURE London volunteering for the Fashion and Textile Children's Trust. This lovely little charity provides financial support for children whose parents or carers work in the UK fashion and textiles industries.

What am I doing with my life? Also, some knitting.

After a month of trying to decide what to do with my life, I think it might be time to start blogging again.

I've been knitting three different things over the last month; here's the first one:

Street art

It's time for the annual Whitecross Street party! My two favourite pieces of this year are posted below; I wanted to take more photographs, but it started raining straight after this.

Photographs of some of the previous year's artworks can be seen here.

Exhibition

I originally intended to take some photographs of the installation and the opening night of the show, but sadly that didn't happen. Here are some rather badly-lit shots of my work in situ: