KNITTED WEDDING REVISITED.

What better way to celebrate this gorgeous spring time than to watch Simon Irwin's film of the 'Knitted Wedding', which I arranged and knitted for Freddie and Ben with the powerful aid of 'Cast Off Knitting Club for boys and girls', in the Summer of 2005.

Simon, it is beautifully made and thank you for putting it on U Tube.

FELIX AS A FLUFFY CLOUD.

Congratulations Felix on your SEXY fluffy yellow with blue bits ribbed raglan JUMPER! Hooray! I witnessed your anger and frustration at those fluffed over decreases, and it looked dreadful to un ravel, but then you fixed it in no time at all. Well done, it looks georgous. This was the fluffy jumper you wanted before, and the wool is so well spun you won't get fluff in your mouth. What next?

UFO PROJECT ADMINISTRATION SERVICE.

I would like to invite you to be part of an exciting new project for the Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2009 Exhibition at the Jerwood Space in London. 

Across the world, hidden in cupboards are accumulations of half knitted works. On conception the ideas were fueled with love and contemplation. For various reasons, sometimes sad, the projects have stalled. The patterns may be lost, and the yarns run out but with hours of skilled effort, these pieces are rarely thrown away, but hidden in drawers, left to harbor unexplained feelings. Recently abbreviated to 'UFOs,' unfinished objects seem to effect nearly every knitter.

UFO Project Administration Service aims to take these lost, guilt-ridden projects and inject them with a new lease of life. You are invited to send us your UFO's and apply to finish someone else's UFO.  We invite you to do what knitters do best - be practical, imaginative, and inventive. 

Please e-mail ufo@prickyourfinger.com for an application form.

All UFO's can be seen at http://ufoadministration.blogspot.com 

This site will be constantly up dated as the UFOs fly in. If you see one you would like to work on, please e-mail us.

When finishing a UFO we advise maximum creativity. A forlorn UFO may arrive on your doorstep, asking you to unlock it's secret history, the yarn within the yarn!

Help these UFOs become couture fashion, fine art or heirlooms!

To show a piece as part of Jerwood Contemporary Makers, please act hastily. I need everything in by 29th May!

(But there is no pressure to exhibit, you can work at any pace!) 

Watch this space for up dates and paranormal activity.

GIRL MONSTER ORCHESTRA.

We are proud to announce that we think we have fulfilled our life ambitions by being on the bill for the Chick on Speeds Girl Monster event in Austria next weekend!  Prick Your Finger, your local haberdashery shop will be playing before the Raincoats. Yes! The Raincoats! The original healthy girl punk band. We are playing with Ian Tea Thompson of the Hackney Secular Singers who has made a marvelous contraption for me to hold whilst spinning the tape cassettes. He will pick up the sounds one last time, as they become plied yarn and Louise will be carding a fantastic array of fibres. Then at 00.30 we will be playing in the GMO the Girl Monster Orchestra under the artistic direction of Gustav. This evening promises to make history, even by it's very existence. Chicks on Speed know how to keep it real and stay free. For more information on Girl Monster go to http://www.donaufestival.at/content-1/festival/program/09/girl-monster-orchestra

I'll blog about it next week, and then Louise and I shall retire in glee.

JENIFER CORKER ROCKS!

Congratulations Jennifer Corker on your beautiful show 'Let Sleeping Dogs Lie' which we celebrated at PYF with you and your lovely friends last night. We love the simplicity and fine skills you used to make charming portraits of your favourite dogs and sea creatures.

"I've bean to hell and back and let me tell you there are 57 varieties" apron, really made us laugh, and it could spread your humourous calm through any household. The dogs rocked in the collars you made them, and we thought we hadn't had such a sophisticated evening in ages.

Thank you for delighting us.

x

Jennifer Corker's show is on until the end of April.

AND HERES ONE WE MADE EARLIER........

Like the Anders Solvesten Thomsen image heres a photoshoot Rachael and i did awhile ago showing the marvolous things you can do with a fleece thats not suitable for spinning! Rachael has turned it into a tippet,with the use of black ribbon and strings of fake pearls! Here shes working a super glamourous look for answering the phone and doing office work....oh yeah.

SHEEP TO SHOULDER!

Check out this amazing image by Danish Stylist Anders Solvsten Thomsen! we love it....