ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

I hope that after looking through the site you will choose to be a fan of my Facebook Page or as it is now on facebook I hope you will choose to like ConnieLeneKnits

You can find me in many places on the net –

My Etsy Shop Unique Boutique Knits for patterns and garments

Crazy but this is my other Etsy Shop Connielene Capes and my unique and unrepeatable knits Capes because I adore cloaks and capes, the others because I cannot tell you exactly how I created them other than the pattern for the style but not the intarsia on them.

And because I managed to create and install a Ball Warmer and really enjoyed the experience and the story World Urban Art – a site still in development – Installation art in the urban environment including Knit Art Graffiti or Yarn bombing.

Our travels in Europe – two oldies from New Zealand exploring the Netherlands, Denmark and Europe as time, money and energy allows.

You can find me on Ravelry here and believe it or not I am also on Twitter here as Connieleneknits

I am a Freelance designer, knitter, lover of colour; lots of colour, Intarsia lover, pattern writer, fashion knit trend follower, Colour and yarn trend follower.

They tell me that I am also artist, graffiti knit artist. I know I am a storyteller, writer, blogger, mother, wife, sister, grandmother, teacher, friend, photographer, and speaker.

My loves are colour, texture, shape, flow, drape, drama, magic, passion and yarn and I hope you enjoy the results.

When I can I do participate in fibre exhibitions, and I have curated two exhibitions with a wonderful artist friend. In 2009 I had a felted jacket in WoolOn at the Alexandra Blossom Festival, and a dress with intarsia of course in the Alpaca Festival in New Zealand.

My Mission is to excite and challenge all knitters, designers and wearers of hand created pieces – to experience more colour in their own knitted pieces and to enjoy the freedom and the magic of wearing such a unique piece because it is created with many colours, passion and with magical yarns

My Major Project with delivery in 2011 is My Intarsia Knitting – Book as yet with no name.

I hope you will be a fan of my Facebook Page or as it is now I hope you will choose to like ConnieLeneKnits on Facebook.

I am now on beret six – there is some minor madness when one keeps on playing with a piece. These have all been created using Vero yarn but in the different colours that I have here in the Netherlands.

I do miss my yarns that are still in New Zealand.

How can I miss yarn? I cannot even remember what was in my stash there – just that there were lots of yarns, in lots and lots of colours, from many different places in the world. But I do miss the variety in colour, yarn type, do not have sufficient variety here to create pieces as I was doing in New Zealand. I have purchased a lot of different yarns here in the Netherlands and some in Switzerland and in Denmark – I just do not have the quantity, colour range and yarn types here as I did have at home. It takes time to build up a new stash, doesn’t it?

What to do?

I don’t know.

So right now I am knitting berets.

Originally this was in response to a commission from a friend in Australia. But now I need to consider – do I continue with these? Do I complete the commission? Well yes that I must do, which means that beret 7 must be a funky, fuzzy, multicoloured piece. Then I must write up the pattern and then get back to that carbon footprint bag. Maybe I just put the two graphs out, one for the intarsia footprints and the other for carbon footprint using shadow knitting and leave you to decide – should it be on a bag, blanket, pram cover, cushion or on a sweater – should you happen to want a sweater with a foot print or two on it.

I guess that is what should be done.

The beret pattern – will include one in stocking stitch, and one felted from a stocking stitch knit. I won’t try to define the multicolour, multi fibre, intarsia one – that will be free form with little guidance.

I have been trying to add pattern information and links on Ravelry – and have decided that it is in the too hard basket. Fortunately the pattern link I was trying to add is neither of those I have promised to add.

The pattern was to be my Vertical Asia Crossover Jacket – which I was going to make available free. Should it ever be there I will be very glad.

This is a pattern which can be used to reduce some of that stash. In my example I used 6 different colours, mainly mohair but all yarns that knitted up at 12 st / 19 rows for 10cm. If you want this pattern please contact me using form below and I will send you the PDF.

In the meantime my Carbon Footprint bag and Kiwi Cape Patterns will have to wait until I get my brain in order so I can unravel the process on Ravelry to make them available to you. I am sure it can be done as many have before me, but today the braincells are struggling. It must be all the snow we have had here in Haarlem. I am too cold and the brain doesn’t work.

So it is back to the knitting and I will update on progress as there is any.

Please email me using the contact form stating in the subject field that you would like a copy of the pdf file of my Vertical Asia Crossover Jacket pattern.

Yahoo – I am creating a knitting pattern for a bag with footprints on the side in the shadow knitting technique. The foot print in black will be your carbon footprint.

It will include the footprint knitting graph and it might well include the instructions to create your own footprint chart from your foot. I hope to have this pattern on Ravelry soon. There is just too much to do between now and the very silly season to complete this at my original January 10th date. We have family coming (driving) from Switzerland to us in Haarlem for Christmas – and I don’t think it will snow, and the canals will not be frozen over as they were last year. It will still be beautiful.

Best Beloved’s foot will be in the photos – I haven’t asked (told) him yet – but the hairy foot will be his, mine are just too odd looking and besides I am going to be the one with the camera.

Shadow Knitting - Small wall hanging

Cape knitted with mohair and faux fur fibre

I have created quite a few knitted capes of several different styles over the last few years and have decided to make this knitting pattern available on Ravelry as soon as I can.