PF 2008

romantic wristwarmers

romantic wristwarmers
Originally uploaded by --ballee--

This is perfect idea for christmas present in last minute. I found them on flickr.com and instructions are on blog http://knittingajour.blogspot.com/

Take it Further challenge

Last year I joined in Take a Stitch Tuesday from SharonB. I started, I made my stitches more than 20 weeks, but then I went to hospital and I never came back. I am sorry about it.
For 2008 there is another challenge: Take it Further. I hesitated to join it, but now I decided YES. I want to be there. One topic for one month, it could be not so difficult for me.
Maybe I will go succesfully through all year, maybe I fail. But anyway it is chance to learn something, to see works from other people.

My modular pullovers

I finished two modular pullovers for competition organised by my favourite on-line yarn shop.
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More pictures of this pullover and some more models from other knitters you can see here.
Second pullover could be seen here, scroll the page down, because it is on same page with another competing models.

Knitted art

REcently I dicovered knitting art by Mafuyu Murakami, japan ilustrator, that use knitting needles and yarns to make real art.
Interview with Mafuyu you can read here.
I love knitting, but I still knit more functional things like pullovers or scarfs. And I admire people they can skip limitation of practical using and make something like Mafuyu.

I have not been here

I have not been here several weeks. I have more internet projects, most of them in Czech language and I wanted to concentrate to them. And I have been on holiday with my dear boyfriend, my sister and her twins. You can see pictures on my picasa-gallery.
We spent our holiday in west part of Czech republic. Nice pond, forest, some trips by train, we was on traditional festival in Domazlice.
Embroidery on my pictures is part of traditional clothing near Domazlice in previous centuries. I love it!

World Wide KNitting in Public Day has been celebrated in Czech republic

We meet in our capitol Prague on most fanous Wenceslav square. Only two knitters :-( , me and Liska. She wrote aboutit on her blog, I recommend to read it.

TAST - week 22 - satin stitch

TAST - week 22 - satin stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

TAST - week 21 and 22 - satin stitch and crossed buttonhole stitch

TAST - week 21 and 22 - satin stitch and crossed buttonhole stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

TAST - week 20 - Butterfly chain stitch

TAST - week 20 - Butterfly chain stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

TAST - week 19 - Basque stitch

TAST - week 19 - Basque stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

1. international Patchwork Exhibition in Prague

Several weeks ago I visited international exhibition of patchwork, that was - for the first time - organised in Prague. Patchwork has no tradition in our country, but it become very popular lately. Exhibition was prepared by Bohemia Patchwork Club and I think they make really good job. I took some pictures and you can see them in my gallery.

TAST - week 18

TAST - week 17 - Running stitch

TAST - week 16 - Palistrina Stitch

TAST - week 16 - Palistrina Stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1.

My niece and her new poncho

This poncho I knitted for my niece, she is beautiful and she love it. Some more pictures are on my other blog http://modulong.blogspot.com/ dedicated to modular knitting, which is my passion.

Take a stitch Tuesday Challenge week 15 - Oyster stitch

I made this bag to carry all thing I need during weekend with my friends. It is really big: 60x60 cm or 24x24 inches.
Material: old jeans worn by me or by my darling.
Lining: blue cotton.
Sun=pocket: white cotton cloth, tie-dyed in yellow. Face is painted and sunrays are embroidered - you can see detail on the third picture.
Can you imagine how heavy is the bag when full of different thing including books?



This is oyster stitch, my homework from Sharon during TAST. It was hard for me to learn this stitch.

TAST week 14 - Bonnet stitch

Bonnet stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1.

TAST week 12 - Couching

Couching
Originally uploaded by imichalova1.

For this stich I use knitting yarns. They are thick and they have often very nice effects. Probably I could add some beads.

TAST week 13 - Knotted cretan stitch

TAST week 11 - Up and down buttonhole

Up and down buttonhole stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1.

Barred chain stitch - TAST week 10

Barred chain stitch - TAST week 10
Originally uploaded by imichalova1.

Another example of this interesting stitch.

Barred chain stitch - TAST week 10

Barred chain stitch - TAST week 10
Originally uploaded by imichalova1.

I am a little behind with TAST, because I have to spend several days in hospital. I want to finish all stitches this week.
This sample of barred chain stitch was made on hand painted cotton cloth. I combined chain stich with bared chain stitch and add some small dots to make the stitch more interesting.

TAST - cross stitch

Task for TAST for this week: cross stitch. It seemed to me common and trivial, so I add some more different stitches. On first picture I started with red cross stitches in three dimensiones. Then I made some green and black stitches to make central composition.
Second piece: only one cross stitch in the centre.
Third one: I started with red, again only several cross stitches.
I used cross stitch many times before TAST, you can see my older works below. I especially love the last one, it looks like patchwokr, but it is cross stitch on whole surface of fabric.

TAST - fly stitch

First rows of pink fly stitch were simple, only to let my hands to learn how to move. then I twisted them and change color - green. I love this wavy effect.

Two rows of same stitch in opposite direction and different color. It looks like chain.
Then I wanted to try to make stitches very close and I use for it cotton yarn, that has different shadows of violet color.
Even more close stitches...
Again green. And red, it is great accent.

TAST - feather stitch

Another week, another stitch from Sharon and her Take a Stitch Tuesday.
I was familiar with this stitch already because last year I finished big textile thing called Big Ben where I used a lot of this stitch. Big Ben is made on black silk with batting because I really love that plastic efect you can achieve.
Sampler for this week is again on silk, dyed in yellow and red. This piece of silk was made several ago by my younger son. Again I used batting. I wanted to make something like flowers but in non natural colours. It still looks unfinished, it needs some accent. Probably something brown or dark green... donot know at the moment.

benjamin cho dress 2

benjamin cho dress 2
Originally uploaded by pamela wynne.

This picture I found on flickr and I love it!

TAST - Algerian eyelete stitch

TAST - Algerian eyelete stitch
Originally uploaded by imichalova1.