New designs pics
Wednesday 21st March 2012
It’s a very productive time, here at Court Cottage Industries. Golf thingies are flying onto our new website, the garden is burgeoning, and I am designing. Have I mentioned my on-going interest* in twirls and swirls and spirals?
*interest can, for the purposes of this blog be defined as obsession.
Well, anyway, it continues to um, interest me. And I have designed some new mitts and cuffs accordingly. Here they are.
First, shy and understated as ever (this is after all my signature, my USP, yes?) Twirl-It Cuffs:
I’m working on a small collection of accessories inspired by costume and theatre. The swirls on these is echoed by curving lines of beads and simple lace, all round and round the cuff. The edges are further swirls, as is the wrist frill, not a frill at all, just a swirl. There is a difference, yes indeed. The whole affair makes you feel slightly giddy:
If these in any way make you think of very full Hollywood style skirts on floating evening dresses, then my work here is done. On the wrist, they actually
force the wearer to twizzle her hand around, back and forth, like a glitter-ball…I have a feeling that, like the red shoes in the film (and the fairy story) they may have the power to make you dance and dance and dance…oh, OK, just me then.
Next here are a pair of mittens with a fully fitted topless thumb. Here the mood really is more modest, they are far more Bergman than Rogers. In silk, mohair and fine lace, a twirl is carefully placed across the back of each hand, twisting gently away in opposite directions. Beads – tiny and gold, and a double line of lace completes the effect. The top is a twirl.
They have a super-soft and light feel on the hand, and the tiny beads are small enough not to impact on wear or tension, but just showy enough to draw your eye:
In a final (for now) flurry of twirling, here is the so far singleton Helter-Skelter mitten, in which the angle of the twirl is sharpened, so the twist goes right round the hand one full turn and winds back to the finger opening. I have carefully knitted my twirl-line as I knit the mitten and then using a single strand of Kidsilk Haze, it is transformed into a short but fairly tense frill, not big enough to be in your way but enough to completely transform an otherwise simple and plain 4-ply mitten.
Last today and still on the needles, a mobuis loop, knitted in 3 shades of Kidsilk Haze to colour wash and trick the eye into a haze of colour-blending. I have used a simple and reversible lace stitch based on garter stitch:
I’m working on a small collection of accessories inspired by costume and theatre. The swirls on these is echoed by curving lines of beads and simple lace, all round and round the cuff. The edges are further swirls, as is the wrist frill, not a frill at all, just a swirl. There is a difference, yes indeed. The whole affair makes you feel slightly giddy:
If these in any way make you think of very full Hollywood style skirts on floating evening dresses, then my work here is done. On the wrist, they actually force the wearer to twizzle her hand around, back and forth, like a glitter-ball…I have a feeling that, like the red shoes in the film (and the fairy story) they may have the power to make you dance and dance and dance…oh, OK, just me then.
Next here are a pair of mittens with a fully fitted topless thumb. Here the mood really is more modest, they are far more Bergman than Rogers. In silk, mohair and fine lace, a twirl is carefully placed across the back of each hand, twisting gently away in opposite directions. Beads – tiny and gold, and a double line of lace completes the effect. The top is a twirl.
They have a super-soft and light feel on the hand, and the tiny beads are small enough not to impact on wear or tension, but just showy enough to draw your eye:
In a final (for now) flurry of twirling, here is the so far singleton Helter-Skelter mitten, in which the angle of the twirl is sharpened, so the twist goes right round the hand one full turn and winds back to the finger opening. I have carefully knitted my twirl-line as I knit the mitten and then using a single strand of Kidsilk Haze, it is transformed into a short but fairly tense frill, not big enough to be in your way but enough to completely transform an otherwise simple and plain 4-ply mitten.
Last today and still on the needles, a mobuis loop, knitted in 3 shades of Kidsilk Haze to colour wash and trick the eye into a haze of colour-blending. I have used a simple and reversible lace stitch based on garter stitch:
Ooh lovely! I love the Bergman mitts best I think. I like the simple beaded swirl and I love the butterscotch colour…
And I love the Twirl-it cuffs – what a gorgeous colour.
It’s all sooooooo beautiful *sigh* !
I am seriously coveting the Twirl It cuffs 🙂
xxx
Alison
We have discussed these twirl it cuffs – and i still have disturbing images of them! I am loving your blogs very much x