Friday, September 3, 2010
melbourne readers, you’ll need to act fast on this one if you’re keen – the online box office closes at 8pm today. “making it handmade” is a locally made documentary about the craft movement featuring faythe levine (above): handmade nation, pip lincolne: meet me at mikes, gemma jones: kaotic kraft kuties, rayna fahey: radical cross stitch, and casey jenkins: craft cartel. it’s on this saturday at RMIT kaleide theatre and there’s 2 screenings: 2pm and 4pm. for more info, check out the facebook page. for bookings, buy online from radical cross stitch.
but that’s not all! also on outside the cinema is a swanky little market, featuring ms.gusset yarns and fibres, and jen from a piece of cloth will also be there with many vintage fabrics and other old school sewing related goodies. we highly recommend you come check it out if you can.
rmit melbourne is currently holding an exhibition until the 21st march titled “the endless garment” which is about new uses of machine knitting. it’s worth a look ’cause this is your one chance to see garments from sandra backlund and mark fast in the flesh. also on as part of the exhibition is a talk from the creative director of issey miyake, founder of APOC (a piece of cloth) garment construction – so it’ll be interesting to hear what miyake & co have planned for the future in terms of pushing knitting forward.
mark fast (photo portrait) has been in the press of late for his use of (gasp! horror!) real size models in his knitwear:
he also has a (recent?) diffusion faster label, and there’s a great video of his recent autumn/winter 2010 collection. for the inside scoop, it’s worth checking out knitkicks from jen jarvis who is working for mr fast and also provides some background on staff there, along with some great reviews/interviews of knitting graduate work.
sometimes you can’t help but wonder…am I reading the news, or the onion? this time around, it is the news, with fresh shenanigans in the wool industry c/o brenda mcgahan (remember her? yep, one of the “women of wool” from last years bendigo sheepshow). she’s resigned as CEO of AWI (australian wool innovation aka the dudes dealing with mulesing). our feeling is that she’s simply had enough of the tantrums. north qld register put that the board is poisonous, strange, and nasty. AWI put in a press release that “Brenda’s decision had been brought about by her frustration at the ongoing differences of opinion amongst members of the Board particularly since the AGM”. if that’s what’s in the press release that they’re putting to the public, can you imagine what it’s like behind closed doors? heck.
to add a little further fire, apparently there was meant to be a 9th annual international wool show congress (oh…so that’s it…at shows, like bendigo sheepshow, stalls cost around $300. at congresses, they’re $3000) in sydney this year. first we heard of it was from someone o/s. surely enough, the day we find out about it, the congress is cancelled.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
you’d think that breakfasting and knitting wouldn’t have much to do with each other – but the dare is on: find me a knitter who isn’t opinionated about what or where the best breakfast in melbourne might be. here’s a couple of pointers that we’re keen on – local rag theage has their 10 best low budget breakfasts (with msgusset local fandango featured – hurrah!), and there’s always the breakfast blog, which has (rather lackadaisically) resumed in melbourne, where it should darn well stay and get shakin’ on.
also of note is breakfastin’ joint proud mary, which has one of the most sinisterly huge coffee machines we’ve seen.
so melbourne knitters, where do you go for breakfast/brunch?
Saturday, February 20, 2010
*phew*. looking back at the old blog archives, it’s been over 2 years since the last entry. which is some kind of record. we just needed to take a lil’ break – and it just panned out longer than what we expected. since we last blogged knitting in public, a lot of things have happened. we left a government webmaster job to start our own hand dyed yarns and fibres business. we’ve been overseas for socksummit in portland, and a quick jaunt in NJ/NYC.
we’ve become a Knitter. it wasn’t the acquisition of barbara walker’s treasuries, or a set of addi turbo clicks (although we’re very grateful for both). c/o waferbaby, we’ve got cats – sisters, although we can’t see the resemblance. internet, please meet missy, the cute, sweet, shy, though rather talented mouse killer who is always up for a good snorgle:
note the cute button nose
and here’s indie, the most testosterone fuelled bossybooted feline who has an inbuilt radar for expensive fibres and has been known to make a beeline for the cashmere to give it a good knead. she’s also partial to catching up with her pals on ravelry (we think she’s been perving on herzeleids friends).
indie shows her love for ravelry
