Comments on: At Prick Your Finger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/29/at-prick-your-finger/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:30:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/29/at-prick-your-finger/#comment-30150 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:30:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=47034#comment-30150 i’m baaaaaaack.
here is a gentleman knitter who is connected with PYF.
http://tomofholland.com/

]]> By: John-Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/29/at-prick-your-finger/#comment-29387 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:08:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=47034#comment-29387 Rachael and Louise are brilliant and I owe them a great deal. They gave me the confidence to knit and crochet and I’ve since been able to pass that on to others – hurrah for Prick Your Finger!

]]> By: Margaret https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/29/at-prick-your-finger/#comment-29339 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:25:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=47034#comment-29339 I don´t knit, and reading this, I feel it would be more appropriate to write ´sadly, I don´t knit´.

]]> By: Gill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/29/at-prick-your-finger/#comment-29230 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:21:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=47034#comment-29230 Great article as always. “Prick your finger” … what a great name.

re: “Knitters of all ages and backgrounds are coming together to share their skill…”

It’s true. Knitting has come back into vogue in a big way. For those of us who don’t have a “Prick your finger” close by to inspire and help us along, there’s the amazing Ravelry website which has a knitting/crocheting membership (free) of 1.6 million registered users.

http://www.ravelry.com/

Gill

]]> By: Pat https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/29/at-prick-your-finger/#comment-29218 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:23:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=47034#comment-29218 I really enjoyed reading rhis. I was born in Bethnal Green but now live out in Norfolk otherwise I would love to visit Prick your Finger.

]]> By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/29/at-prick-your-finger/#comment-29217 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:20:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=47034#comment-29217 the plaid cobweb. umbra sumus indeed.

the best of the new knitters is kate davies, who has a phd. in — english? material culture? — i call her the intelligent craftafarian, and she has turned me on to more interesting books about ditto, including such heavenly visions as damask darning and the quaker school at ackworth which taught girls how to do same at the turn of the 19th century.
kate’s blog, needled, is a must-read, like you.

http://textisles.com/

there’s also felicity ford, who has a phd. in — sound? — and is a great customer of prick your finger.

http://thedomesticsoundscape.com/wordpress/

http://www.amazon.com/Quaker-School-Girl-Samplers-Ackworth/dp/0955208610

http://www.amazon.com/Subversive-Stitch-Embroidery-Making-Feminine/dp/0415902061

as i’m sure you know, knitting has been taken up by the punk/off the grid/alexander mcqueen generation. this girl won a contest on etsy by “upcycling” dumpster-dived yarn into her…wiener bench. they made her an executive at etsy, which is, as you know, the venue for all these people to sell their goods.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/5209639/wiener-bench-upcycling

oh! and don’t forget all those wild and crazy oztrailians:

http://crochetcoralreef.org/

…who, god knows, having sheep to the eyeballs, have become among the most avant-garde knitters.

jenny dowde’s native blossoms hat is enough to make you oz 4eva:

http://www.amazon.com/Freeform-Knitting-Crochet-Milner-Craft/dp/1863513272

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