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I'm at Morley Gallery every other week these days, but I'm very
neglectful when it comes to writing about the exhibitions. As soon as I walked into the Made 2013 show I knew I had to post something about it though.
The dress is even more incredible in person!
The show features student work from the Fashion, Film, Digital Design and Photography departments. The standard of work is incredibly high. If you're in the area between now and the 15th March then you should definitely stop by the gallery and admire it all. (More photos after the cut.)
I'm doing another class at Sew Over It, (you can find a short post about the first one here). This time I'm taking their ultimate trousers class, which is split over two sessions. After the first session the results already look pretty much like a pair of trousers:
Yes, I did pick the most ridiculous fabric I could find.
Next week should just be about finishing everything off - adjusting the fit, hemming the legs and putting in a zip. I'm looking forward to having a decent trouser pattern as I've had to shorten every pair of trousers I own!
This is the knitting pattern I've been working on, wristwarmers with a scaly pattern on them (check the previous post for a close-up of the pattern). The plan is to have two versions of the pattern: one knitted flat with the sides sewn together and one knitted in the round. This is the flat version.
These are pictures from the knitting pattern I'm currently writing. The right side of the work, (top photo), should look like scales, which I think I've managed pretty well. The bottom photo shows what the wrong side of the work looks like.
I spent the first day of 2013 in Brentwood with James and we encountered a little piece of yarn bombing outside the Chicken and Frog Bookshop.
It seems to be the work of Claire Mackaness, proprietor of craft business Beautiful Things, who teaches classes at the bookshop. She has a blog post about the yarn bombing here, although the wool in her photographs is quite clearly different to the wool in my photographs. Presumably it was replaced at some point, but I can't find a second post to confirm this.
Here's to a fun and warm 2013!
