FASHION RAG YARN.

....And ahead of schedule, here is a ball of fashion rag yarn, the carding of which is shown below! On Sunday I shall attempt to knit it....watch this space....

HEADSCARVES ARE FASHIONABLE.

Give life to a piece of cloth! Headscarves are everywhere. Radio 4 is talking about the Queen and Nora Batty as I write. 

Here is a diagram on how to tie a headscarf from our current favourite book 'Cheep and Chic'.

THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD HAT.

On Tuesday, whilst conducting our Home Made Sportswear event, we made a friend!

Doreen, pictured on the right, who is 80 next month arrived in full biker leathers, and contributed greatly to our discussion.  We were talking about the importance of wearing good headwear, and she kindly brought her collection of hats into the shop for us to try on. Doreen explained how one can have a lot more fun with a flattering hat. They were so beautifully made, and we especially loved the Stephen Jones's hat Louise is wearing on the right.

Doreen packed her collection away into the hat box and danced her way down the street. Hopefully she will come with us when we enter Stephen Jones's paper hat competition at the V&A at the end of the month. 

'THE LONG LOST' LIVE!

Prick Your Finger are proud to present

'The Long Lost' LIVE! In our window on 

Wednesday 18th March at 7pm.

This gig is FREE to PYF, friends, blog readers and customers. 

The special password for a free beer, wine, mineral water, is (K2tog) 

Bring your knitting or whatever you are making!

The Long Lost consists of husband-&-wife team Alfred (Voice, Guitar) and Laura Darlington (Voice, Flute) who will be joined on stage for their live dates by Amir Yaghami (Violin) & Jonathan Larroquette (Electronics) aka electronic duo Jogger. In contrast to the avant-electronics and hip-hop aesthetics of Alfred's music as Daedelus, The Long Lost is a sublime union of two songwriters & producers with a penchant for sad sounds and delicate, electro-acoustic melodies - psychedelic lullabies for lovers and lovelorn.

When they take the stage, the quartet exude a gentle strength, the violin entwining with Laura's voice, the strength of their performance lying in understatement and controlled musicianship rather than any showing off. It's a perfectly judged evocation of their music, utterly lacking in guile and full of the queasy, wonderful, sometimes awful emotions which overwhelm us when we're in Love. 

To listen, please go to http://www.ninjatune.net/thelonglost

GRAFFITI ON THE SOUTHBANK.

Louise and I had a stroll along the Southbank yesterday, to spy the knitted graffiti made by the Stitch and Bitch girls when Knitta came to London week before last. 

There are some brilliant pieces and some really made us laugh. This was our favourite though because it looked so comfortable.

Well done ladies!

FASHION RAGS.

We got very excited and made a fantastic mess last night when we worked out how to spin fashion magazines. It could of course, remain debatable whether our yarn would be 'so now' or 'so last season', as some of the magazines were a bit old, but we don't care. This yarn is beautiful.

Louise is in charge of 'Fashion Rag Yarn' production, and she says we will have a batch finished by 6pm Saturday. Rosemary is on carding, Zara shredding, and I am on the wheel.  

JENNY'S PERSEVERANCE.

Jenny works hard at her knitting!

Last month she visited us in crisis with a difficult cardigan pattern. We all had a go in de-coding the mystery of the neck line.  It wasn't easy but she finished it anyway. 

And wore it for two weeks.

But it wasn't comfortable.

So she un- raveled the whole thing and knitted this instead!

Well done Jenny!