Graffiti

Two pieces seen while walking along Caledonian Road. It looks like the top one was done to promote the Cally Festival.

Eat Your Heart Out 2012 at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum

A friend and I went to Eat Your Heart Out this weekend. This pop-up cake shop took place in possibly the only grotesque museum in London that I haven't been too - St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum. It seems that this museum isn't open to the public, though you can arrange a private viewing and it does host events, usually lectures and seminars.
   

New blog feature

I've added a new section to the blog. On the right-hand side there's now a section labelled "Patterns" where patterns and instructions that appeared in blog posts are collected. At present it's got the phone case knitting pattern mentioned in the previous post, the lambda knitting chart from this post and the paper watch template and instructions from this post.

Swedish Snowflake Phone Case - Free Pattern

So, I recently designed myself a knitted phone case. As a friend of mine was also in need of a phone case I tweaked the design and made my own fair-isle chart to use with it. The result is Lucy's Swedish Snowflake Phone Case. The pattern can be downloaded by clicking on this link or if you're on Ravelry you can search for "Swedish Snowflake Phone Case" in the pattern database.

Advertising

Walking past Selfridge's on Thursday I discovered that Yayoi Kusama is collaborating with Louis Vuitton on a clothing/accessories collection. Polka dots feature heavily, (unsurprisingly), and the Selfridge's window display is enjoyably bizarre and slightly creepy. It includes an army of tiny Kusamas and two photo-realistic mannequins.

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.)