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For me, colour and texture rule and most of the inspiration feeding my imagination comes from the natural world. I see knitting as art, as viable as any other, and no matter what the tool or preferred palette, in human hands, magic happens. Jane Email: jane@janethornley.com
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Recent Blog Entries
Thursday, March 15, 2007JANE GOES SHOPPING!I'm back from Maine a bit weary from twelve hours of driving past mutliple trees blurring together in one long dark smudge of firry green. Such relentless samenitude can only provoke my thoughts to dream up new designs. Here's what I'm thinking about now: how about a kimono inspired by hydrangea? I'm thinking annabelle hydrangea now, those soft green to pink to cream cococtions that topple and blowse their way through summer like a chorus of glory girls. Hydrangeas are my favorite flower, though I try not to say that when in earshot of the others. I have the perfect yarn choice for this one. Check out theTwisted Sisters Voodoo and Mirage in color 1, a luminous greenish, pinky, pure annabelle coloration, in one of the photos below. Buttery Pearls And, of course, Jane went shopping. I did my part to support the US economy by purchasing buttery pearls with equally buttery yarn for some as yet undecided creation. Something sunny this way comes.. Also, in honor of my second youth, I foraged for a few new clothes ending up with lots of sandy neutrals like the batik-inspired top below (shown with an emerging necklace in slivers of agate that look like horn and tortoise).
Botany—Close up of edge Above you'll find another view of botany inspired, as you may have guessed, by the botanical prints of the 19th century. Think of wicker chairs and trellises over which hangs a painting of a leaf specimen—washes of green over creamy parchment. I've decided to do a wrap pattern with instructions for a cardigan so that everyone gets their wish. These soft greens and wicker sand colors in combination just epitomize spring, don't they? The yarns here are Fleece Artist Hand Maiden in two shades with a cream background of Prism Bon Bon in vanilla. The brown 'frame' is another Prism yarn, Bolero in mink. Twisted Sisters Voodoo for Hydrangea kimono And thanks everyone for all the best wishes on my birthday. I celebrated this milestone in style by eating with restraint on the pretext that the best gift we can ever give ourselves is good health (I'm trying to remove the 'wide load' sticker from my anatomy). But, before you think me too noble and disciplined, take heart in the fact that I indulged in other things. Fron now one, when you post a comment, it will appear immediately. No more waiting!
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