Okay, I'm Back!!

Oh my goodness...I can't believe it has been October since I have updated this blog!

I have been really good about keeping up with  my art blog....not so much here unfortunately. I am going to try my best to at least post new items here and a little about their inspiration. I'm not even going to try to catch up from the last few months!

Anyways, my latest is a pair of fingerless gloves. I am having a lot of fun knitting fingerless gloves with colorwork - a relatively quick knit and only a little fussy with the thumbs. I just listed these Royal Purple ones:

They are available here.

I think the design came from some Latvian mittens. I have been looking through my books lately and then came up with this idea, so I suspect it was sparked by something I saw in one of my Latvian mitten books. I love the richness of the colors - this is a gorgeous purple. And they are knitted in Elann's Peruvian Highland wool which is nice and soft. I hope they find a good home!

On the needles: more fingerless mitts. I am also finishing up a gorgeous scarf in a brick red color. I will be casting on a hat and cowl to work on this weekend while the kids are skiing.

Staceyville Bag

Just re-listed this bag.

It is a pretty felted little bag - I really like the stripes and the beautiful button on it. I've considered keeping it for myself, but hope to find someone who loves it, too!

It is currently featured in a treasury:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/0524b47b3289c84b3e756c00/treasures-from-indie-junction

(yay for IndieJunction!)

The listing is here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/40925095/staceyville-small-bag---handknit-and-fel

Still thinking spring.....

This is the Carlisle Spring iPod Sleeve (or MP3 cozy). It was inspired by the colorwork on Turkish stockings.

I've been looking through Anna Zilboorg books and pouring over pictures of Turkish textiles online. There is a book called Anatolian Knitting Designs - here on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Anatolian-Knitting-Designs-Collected-Shantytown/dp/B0006EAWVM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269367898&sr=8-1 that I have just got to find a copy of! I find the Turkish textiles to have such beautiful patterns and wonderful color combinations - I could be endlessly inspired by them alone. So many designs...so little time......

Bristol

Bristol is an ipod sleeve - a snug little bag to keep your ipod (or similarly sized device) cozy. The size is perfect to fit my ipod classic! It is knit densely on small needles and is nice and thick to protect whatever you put inside. It is wool, so it has a little stretch to fit snugly like a sweater.

The patterning is similar to what I used on the Madison bag and was inspired by traditional Finnish designs. I wanted to see how the wool knitted up versus the cotton (for the Madison). It makes for a smaller, yet stretchier bag - more of a cozy or sweater for an ipod. I may have to experiment with more of these in the same shape!

WIP - Hinsdale Autumn Bag

Since I don't have any current finished projects to show, I thought I would blog about what I am working on. The projects on this blog are of my own design, and many are available for purchase. If you want to see my other projects (socks, sweaters, etc.) then check out my Ravelry page (I'm DebKnits on Ravelry).

This WIP is a medium-sized bag with patterning based on some Komi designs. It will be lightly fulled when finished. I call it Hinsdale Autumn, because Hinsdale is the name of one of the towns we drove through when I was in the early stages of knitting it and the gold and rust colors make me think of autumn. I hope to have it up on Etsy by the beginning of 2010.