My KNITSONIK installation Listening to Knitting Patterns is on display from Friday 9 May 2025 18:00 – Sunday 1 June 2025 16:00 as part of the Curiosity Cabinet at St. Andrews Mews. You can go along during exhibition opening-times and play the patterns for yourselves, to hear knitting patterns as rhythms and pitches! InstructionsTo listen […]
Please note, this post contains video content; if you’d like to see the videos you’ll need to read it on my blog rather than in your email inbox. Click Read on Blog at the top right hand of this email. I mentioned in my last post that I was going to be teaching a workshop […]
Years ago I was in the Brownies (like Girl Guides but for 7-10 year olds) and wanted to get my art badge. The criteria was to make a piece of art, so I took in one of my paintings, expecting to straightforwardly trade it for the badge. (I’ve written about this before, but am thinking […]
…of adventures on and off the needles, and with oddments of yarn.
Hello! Today I want to tell you all about Cheers! – the second design in the KNITSONIK & Friends: Colour to Knit eBook (publishing online in the KNITSONIK shop on August 1st, 2022). Cheers! by Nolwenn Pensivy is a glorious ode to variegated yarn, stranded colourwork and beverages of choice: what is not to love? […]
One of many things which makes listening to music so beautiful is space around the notes. The rests, the pauses, the silence, in which pitches and rhythms sound, hang, resonate. On our punch-cards for our componiums, such space shows up as unpunched card, and you get loads of areas where nothing happens. Against the gridded […]
A few years ago I excitedly stumbled upon the Kickstarter campaign for MyBodyModel. Erica Schmitz, the project founder, had come up with the brilliant idea to develop software which would turn *actual body measurements* into proportionate fashion drawings, with which to better visualise outfits or prospective sewing/knitting/crochet projects. I have always struggled to accurately perceive […]
Earlier this year when I launched the KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Playbook I had this idea that I could knit everything from the book again, sharing the progress of my work as I went and showing how each of the patterns might be adapted. This idea slowed to a glacial pace when my psoriatic arthritis got […]
Some of you may know from instagram that I keep a bullet journal. I don’t rigidly follow The Official Bullet Journalling System, but I do love finding ways to structure ideas and to keep track of projects in a notebook. When I was much younger, I used to keep amazing, elaborate sketchpads which documented all […]
I’ve been working on a personal challenge to try and walk at least 10,000 steps a day and it is a quest that I am relishing. The best part is the local brickwork. I’m clearly not alone in being appreciative of this aspect of Reading; one of my most commented on blog-posts is this one […]