MALCOLM R.I.P

We are saddened to hear that Malcolm McLarren is dead.
Prick Your Finger's strength of heart is partly due to the guidance of this funny man.

When we were planning our shop and in the early days of Cast Off Knitting Club, Malcolm taught us there is no time to wait for permission. Culture needs shaking, and we can 'be reasonable and demand the impossible -'

I think he grew up in a haberdashery shop, but I'm not sure, I might have dreamed that.... In the haberdashery shop, you constantly see people attempting things, and that's why we love it. McLarren's vision of re packaging, regurgitating, initiating creative freedom, and challenging existing cultural structures, was a far bigger lesson than anything we learned at art school.

We have a lot to thank him for.

HERE COMES THE SUN, doodle doo doo......

Today was the first warm day, so we flung open the door, and dyed a shed load of Swaledale DK in Electric Kool Aid colours, and hung it out to dry in the sun.
Louise's sunglasses are by 'Vershage' and she bought them from a car boot sale in Norfolk.

KNITTERS NEEDED.

Knitters, we are all invited to come and mark time as part of
'Rella the Testbed Project'
which Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning and doing at the Beaconsfield Gallery
and if you're game
there might be time to do the Jane Fonda work out too!
Check out the website
www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk:/projects/present.html
See you there on Friday 9th April 2 - 5 pm.

BIG IN JAPAN.

Well we think we are. Tomoko put us in a big broadsheet last week. We are English craftsmen, and proud.

LOVE FROM TURIN.

Mia, sent us these pictures from Turin, on a beautiful knitted day. It looks like she's having a wonderful time, and we look forward to her return!

SHANE DOES IT AGAIN.

Shane has done it again. Give him a space and he'll decorate it in the most beautiful and imaginative way, like here, at Dovecote Studios in Edinburgh for the show
'Taking Time : Craft and the Slow Revolution." curated by Helen Carnac and Craftspace.
Shane will be streaming a film about the making of the piece shortly.

for more information click here;
http://www.innovativecraft.co.uk/index.php/events/gallery/taking_time_approaches_to_textiles/

KNIT YOUR WAY THROUGH SIXTH FORM.

Thanks to Anna Maltz who on Tuesday, brought her sixth form art class from Skinner's School to tell us about their amazing projects. Skinner girls are yarn bombing the school, by looking into it's history and on reflection, knitting site specific pieces.
Here are the girls, sending us a photo from the Museum of Childhood, just around the corner from our shop. They are holding our limited edition bags which they all got for spending over £20!
Go girls, we can't wait to see what you do.