right. here's the official version from the guild:
Handknitters Guild Inc presents MINI WOOL & CRAFT EXPO
Products for handknitters, scrumblers, spinners, weavers, felters & lovers of handmade goods.
Yarns-hand-dyed, hand & machine spun,
locally grown, imported & commercial.
Wool Mohair Silk Alpaca Fleeces Rovings
Art & craft books Knitting accessories
Quality products, Demonstrations
Coburg Town Hall
90 Bell Street Coburg Mel 17 J 12
Sunday 4 June, 2006 10 am to 3:30 pm
Free Admission
Ample parking Trams every 6 min. #19 East Coburg departing Elizabeth St
With assistance from the City of Moreland.
here's the unofficial version from yours truly:
it's a huge hall full of stuff that you probably won't find under the same roof until the expo next year - so it's totally worth checking out if you have the time and inclination. see you there?
we've got a confession to make here - with ownership of our own lil' pad looming, we've become a tad obsessed with interiors. anything vaguely retro, weird, red (loungeroom), yellow (dining), pink (well, anywhere, really) gets our attention. enter florence broadhurst. after picking up the book, what's not to love? kooky lady decides at the age of 50 to get into designing. you go, girl. fullon, take no prisoners designs, and the same kind of outlook on life. strikes us as the kind of woman to aspire to be at that age. a florence broadhurst ebay search gives a decent idea of her work, as does the signature prints site.
the neat thing is finding broadhurst prints out and about - we're pretty sure that klines perfumery is using a broadhurst print (or something incredibly close) in their brunswick st store. saba on chapel st have a nifty rug which looks to be based on the japanese flower print:
seeing her work just makes us happy.
while we're waiting for the book to hit oz, norah gaughan's knitting nature has been available on amazon and overseas - check out the knitalong. the imprint that knitting nature is on is an interesting one - interweave knits editor melanie falick is putting together some more unusual books with her imprint via stuart tabori and chang. we're keen on the hardware jewellery in particular.
we feel it's our duty to inform you about international knitting in public day. while we'll whip out the needles if we can, it's also going to be international show our parents around glorious melbs day, so we hope you have a good one, and whack out your goods somewhere...
doing away with our need to check out knitting news is uh...knitting news, which kindly scours the interweb for knitting based news and whacks it all together in one handy spot. great idea, great execution.
we're famous!.
turns out that there's a new place to melbourne to get your magazine fix - magnation which happened to have knit1 in stock. (not in melbs, or prefer to buy online? stocking knit1 (amongst other goodies) is the thewoolshack.
here's a smattering of the bloggers from the spring issue article about knitters around the world:
jennifer gladwin, canada - uptownyarns.com
annabelle fourrier, france - fee63.canalblog.com
mitsuko tonouchi, japan - thread and yarn handing days
anna bell, uk - my fashionable life
sabine dahlhausen, germany - www.myblog.de/stricky
and the awesome lexi boeger, usa - pluckyfluff.
also spied at magnation, a copy of the deluxe crafts, put out by crafts council which features an article on the combination of fashion and biotechnology. a lab in western australia where art & science meet - symbiotica is featured, with a focus on the work of donna franklin who created a dress from funghi. here's an article on symbiotica, showing the dress.
it's great that someone else has picked up on the meeting of craft and science - we're looking forward to having an article in yarn about biology and knitting, featuring research done via symbiotica.
knit1's latest issue apparently features yours truly discussing the wonders of australian knitting (and boy, do we feel like we've been busted with our pants around our ankles blog wise...). we haven't been able to track down a copy (and now we understand why - subscribers get theirs early, the great unwashed have to wait for it to be stocked in maybe 3 or so melbs newsagents - should you know who stocks knit1, let us know). we're rather fond of the art/fashion issue with a spotted felted bag.
knit1 seem to have a thing for featuring eye candy for knitters - the male issue featuring a centrefold (!) and an interesting accessory on their bear rug. he doesn't look too comfy with those needles, but yarn is wrapped correctly around the right bits, so we'll let him off this time.
russell from series four of six feet under, we're not so sure:
six feet under got a touch dallas relationship wise - russell is the ex of claire due to his experimenting with their old art teacher who's now seeing claire's brothers ex girlfiend's mother. meanwhile, claire is getting keen on her new teacher billy, claire's brother's ex girlfriends brother. it all makes sense seeing the episodes, as old as they are. dvds have been coming in handy for getting through crocheting the dress - plodding along, and with any luck, maybe we'll have it ready in time for going to alice springs for the beaniefest in june/july.
