ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

Crikey it has taken me a bit of time to do this little write up. Shame on me really because within the digital pages of Entangled is an article about moi – and I don’t think I have really told anyone yet. Why is that – well I have been dealing with computer issues for some months, and I am sure that I have told you that. Of course now I have my fully featured, fully functional, but without all my data laptop back I have months of stuff to catch up on and as we are moving countries soon this may be my last real post for 2 or 3 months, maybe.

But this is really about the new on-line magazine from New Zealand “Entangled”. The brain child of Genny Stevens et al, of Crafternoon tea with Grannyg fame

You can review Entangled via the link below:

Click on “Inside” in centre of the screen, then on “Preview this article” followed by another click on the magazine cover of Entangled to reach the screen which has characters along the bottom including arrows. Click on the arrow pointing to the right to turn the pages and enjoy.

There is no cost for turning the pages digitally through this, the preview FREE offering of Entangled to view the delights of a glorious glossy full of ideas and information, inspiration and opportunity to delight and create. Go on have a look. Turn that digital page and you will see Knit graffiti underlined on the next page – and if you do nothing else here do click on Knit Graffiti and it will take you to an article about, you guessed it – Knit Graffiti (stuff done by two oldies in the Netherlands – you may even know or recognise us, maybe). Then please do page through the rest of Entangled as there are many many delights therein.

You may remember that GrannyG interviewed me about 9 or 10 months ago Grannyg and moi talking across the world and there are many other interesting interviews and odd writings on Crafternoon Tea with Grannyg

Entangled Magazine is only available digitally, Issue 1 is out now and it looks great, Issue 2 will contain a story of a Sydney yarn crawl which beats a pub crawl any day. Although wine and gossip after the yarn crawl will surely have followed.

You can become entangled with “Entangled Magazine” on twitter @entangledmag and if you like, you can like “Entangled Magazine” on Facebook.

Just in case you thought it – No they didn’t bribe me and cross my palms with silver. I do think this is a great addition to the craft, art, yarn, fibre world wide arsenal of information and it is beautiful as well. You can’t get better than that.

Thank you Grannyg

apart from a print copy, maybe. I was a librarian after-all, and we fear the digital world, or we used to.

I am playing with Fibonacci sequence for increases and am not sure just what the outcome will be – but the yarn looks great. I am knitting with New Zealand Touch Yarns mohair. I hope the result will be like the sea in motion, but will have to wait and see.

Just how many terms can there be for a piece to wear around the neck and shoulders – one to keep the neck warm and protected?

You know already I have posted on the wimple and then I posted on the snood – See here:

Of course I followed with the cowl pattern still to come I am sorry – and then ever so curiously I found the Gaiter(s) Now the gaiter is really tricky, given that gait means “a manner of walking” – how on earth did a cloth or leather covering for the legs and ankles become a covering for the neck?

I had not considered that there were even more terms for fashion pieces that adorn the neck and maybe the shoulders and what was posted on facebook tonight Dickey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A dickey (alternately written as dickie or dicky; sometimes known as a tuxedo front or tux front) is a type of false shirt-front – originally known as a detachable bosom – designed to be worn with a tuxedo or men’s white tie, usually attached to the collar and then tucked into the waistcoat or cummerbund. The rigid plastic dickey came into fashion in the latter years of the 19th century, and was one of the first successful commercial applications of celluloid.

So I looked up dickey on google as you do. Google images were inconclusive – and some of the pictures are not very nice. I did however find a link to a pattern for a hand knit Dickey So there you have it – a dickey pattern, but I think you could develop a dickey pattern of your own by combining a hand knit or crochet babies bib pattern with a roll collar and then you have a dickey.

But will there be even more terms for my neck warmers?

It could be a crisis working out how to label my pieces if different communities use different words for the same things – so I might have to create a new word.

Wimplesnooddickeygaiter

or

Dickeygaitersnoodwimple

or

snooddickeygaiterwimple

or

gaiterdickeysnoodwimple

or ever so simply

A neck / shoulder warmer

or maybe

“A Not Isadora Duncan Scarf”

or

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..what????

The original cowl which I created using Sean Sheep Armytage, is now a pattern or will be come Monday next.

The cowl is knitted from the neck down, on 7mm circular needles. As it is knitted in the round it can be tried on to view progress and make decisions about the length very easily and because it is knitted with a chunkier yarn it is a quick knit and there will be time to complete one for a Christmas gift if you are in wintery climes that is.

I am finishing another using a Dutch homespun that I purchased at the mediaeval market here in Haarlem last year. It still has that lovely hint of sheep in it when you smell the yarn.

The cowls may be photographed on my mannequin only for the pattern as I am without a model still.

Using Google Analytics since 18th Nov 2009

It is one year and one day since I set up google analytics on this website. Since that time 11,556 people have visited. I am uncertain what to do with that information. I know I would like more visitors, and I can see the trends so more visitors will come.

My top posts were:

A-Z of the Vogue Winter Trends 2010-2011 A,O,K,E,P from May 28th has attracted the most readers 466.

Followed by the Category – patterns – Free Patterns which attracted 429 readers.

Then Beret Pattern in 8ply or double knitting is on Etsy now with 417 views.

This is a brief skim of the Analytics.

Maybe today I could have 444 visitors – isn’t that a nice number – to make 12,000 visitors in a year and a day. It would be interesting to see if that could happen.