Design Event
Tuesday 21st April 2015
The 4th Court Cottage Design Weekend has just happened. It was really good, I hope the participants would agree. The range of ideas which the ‘mood-boards’ generated was impressive, as was the scale of the visions we saw emerging. The concept for the weekends has evolved and now I send out 2 mood-boards with some themes, yarn suggestion, and some guidance as to what I want to see at the weekend. There are 2 options, so you can choose from the brief that is quite narrow and prescriptive, or from the other which is much more relaxed.
The whole weekend was a real joy, for me, and for Millington.
I think however, that I will not hold a 2016 Design Weekend. This is partly because when my new book, ‘Elements’, comes out later this year, my co-author, Donna Jones and I, may hold a knitting retreat weekend, or weekends, one of which may well have a design theme. It is also because I fancy ringing the changes.
So in 2016, I have some half-formed plans for an event – which may be a short series of one-day get-togethers – where we design something together. That is, I design half, you design half. And if you don’t want to design half, you can double up on my designs. My (rough) plan is that folks can book for 2 days, a few weeks apart, so the plan can evolve, with a final free-of-charge afternoon reunion, the purpose of which is
to eat cake to see where we have all got to, go ‘ooooh/aaah!’ at what we’ve done, and to sort out any final points. I am loath to call it a Knit-Along (KAL) but it will be a version of that, I suppose.
It’s brewing in my head, and now it needs to get to the test-knit stage.
Squeeee!!! Sounds exciting 🙂
As usual I loved the weekend, such fun and inspiration.
Im sure the plans for next year will be just as exciting, maybe the odd weekend/2 day so Tilly and I can join the fun?
Hello, the design weekend was utterly brilliant…I am sad you won’t be doing them next year because this course was so inspiring…. but the new ideas sound very Interesting.