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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
Monday, June 30, 2008SPRING GARDEN ROMPING
Tuscan Tiles Vest
Tuscan Tiles front open
I imagine that everyone has a favorite spot in their own home town, some place they can remember from childhood and to which they return again and again, places worn smooth by the footsteps of hundreds of personal memories. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I sprouted, the Public Gardens is mine. My mother took me there as a child and I can remember feeding the pigeons salted peanuts bought from the little canteen. Hmmm...I bet more pigeons succumbed to hypertension during those years than we can ever imagine. No wonder they're so flighty... Within the enclosed space in the heart of the city, everything blooms in abundance amid quiet walkways, ponds, pools, fountains and lovely old yew trees that weave umbrella branches overhead for sudden downpours. Peacocks used to strut the grounds while monkeys scrambled across the grass—oh, wait: that was me. Right, well, Hannah and I went for a photo shoot this month and here are a few of the results: above, Knitaly08's Tuscan Tiles vest hangs out on the old stone bridge. The vest pattern is not for sale, by the way, but will be the kit project designed by Patricia Werner and myself for the Knitaly08 knitting tour this October (spaces still available, by the way).
Two godesses amid the tulips, one in a Feather and Fan wrap
The gardens, by the way, were planted over a hundred years ago to commemorate Queen Victoria who still gets a lot of airplay in Canada, despite the fact she's been gone for awhile. Amid the blooming banks, the ponds and gazebos, are bronze and plaster statues that would be perfectly at home in London and the Queen's backyard, not that the Queen has a backyard. I suspect it's more like the back acreage. What would one call Balmorial? 'The country estate', maybe.
Spring Garden Wrap by pond...
Above is one of the alternate views of the new wrap pattern coming out for July—very easy-going, free-range knitting when all you feel like doing in the summer heat is something loose. This wrap, by the way, is designed specifically as a stash-buster. Please note how I've knit a bouquet of colors from my stash into the mix, using denim blue as a lead yarn. Plus, it's easy, easy...
Symphony in Magenta
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