I learned to knit in 1978. I was in the fourth year of primary school. I remember it clearly. I attended the Carlton Gardens Primary School, an old turn of the century brown brick building as many of the schools are in inner Melbourne. It was directly opposite the Carlton Gardens and a short walk […]
Finished Avena
I’ve been knitting a seamless top down jumper with a repeated leaf motif around the shoulders of a design by Jen Steingass called Avena. Here’s what it looks like. It’s the second jumper of hers I knitted (see me wearing it below) which introduced me to colour work as I was building my knitting skills […]
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Knitter Scorned
Over the last couple of days, I’v been watching with interest of a situation play out in the knitting community about Those Two Dudes from eCom Crew who shared a podcast about them buying the knitting (dot)com URL for $80 000. During the podcast, they talked about how they thought knitting was a niche market […]
Trying New Knitting Techniques
One of the skills I wanted to learn was to be able to knit motifs around the shoulder of jumpers and recently, I came across the designs of knitwear designer June Steingass from Knit.Love.Wool. The reason why I loved these fair isle designs is they remind me of the chunky nordic jumpers and cardigans that […]
Knitting Owls
Recently, I found a great design by KDD to knit on a jumper and they were….Owls! In fact, the jumper design is of the same name. I bought the pattern and with highlighter in hand, scrutinised the pattern to see if it was something that I could knit. I would say that I’m an intermediate […]
Levelling Up Your Skills Through Mini Challenges
One of the things I do to level up my skills when I feel that I’m getting: Comfortable Complacent Stagnant Is to create little mini challenges for myself. They don’t have to be HUGE enough to have me give up half way through them but not too easy that they’re not exciting or enticing enough […]
Learn a New Skill by Learning An Endangered Craft with New & Modern Twist
Some years ago, I was surfing through my Facebook feed and Ann McCrossen @annemcx who writes about the emergent organisation shared a PDF called The Radcliffe Red List of Endangered Crafts. Ann is also a wonderful ceramic artist when she’s not writing about organisations and in her website, she shares that part of herself, the […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning December 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for December 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Do The Pecha Kucha
I don’t know about you, but every single time someone mentions “Pecha Kucha” I think about the Horrible Histories song about the Incan Lord “Pachakuti”… Do the “Pecha Kucha” (it’s quite a catchy song)… Horrible Histories – Pachacuti from Matty driver on Vimeo. Pecha Kucha actually has nothing to do with Incas. In fact, they are […]
A Weekend Learning to Create Short Movies
This weekend I learned to create short movies. I was stuck indoors as it was pretty cold and miserable. I’m not one to go out often unless there’s a specific reason to but the cold weather gave me an excuse to catch up with my reading as well as learning how to use iMovie on […]