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Knit a Year
By: Elizabeth Barlow
The process is simple. Knit no less than 2 rows of 10 stiches a day for a year. The colours that you chose should reflect your mood. I started doing this on new years eve. Then I thought that it has usefulness for others, to understand and reflect on mood as well as the relaxation of knitting. Watch this space.
Elizabeth Barlow
From now on I am going to call myself a topical artist. Most people say that they are a willow artist or a sculptor but as a right old flibberty jibbet of a person I have never stuck to one medium for long enough to say such things. There are however some persistence themes in my work, society, trace and loss being a few of them. If I work in the community I am more inclined to ask about topics that a group wished to explore than what they wish to work in.
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Beth Barlow, 'Knit a Year Instructions leaflet', Design, 24:2:10. Photo: Beth Barlow. Created to go into the Knit a Year starter kits. There are leaflets on casting on and off and knitting and purling. Designed to help the non knitter get started.
# 1 [25 February 2010]
This one may have legs. More people involved now, started an online network which I am growing slowly but surely. Inteview done for a knittig mag, Irrationally excited about that one. Am off to think about funding so that I can really let it run about a bit.
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