Come along to Brighton Museum’s ‘Provocatively Late’ evening on Thursday 17th October.  

The Knit List will be running a yarn-bombing workshop in the midst of all the fun at Provocatively Late.

Provocatively Late is part of the Brighton Museum’s late evenings happening alongside their exhibitions.  This month sees ‘Subversive Design‘ hitting the museum. Described as:

“From high fashion to high street consumerism, cheeky ceramics to controversial chairs, provocative lamps to ‘rubbish’ jewellery, this major exhibition subverts your preconceptions and challenges your relationship with objects you use on a daily basis.”

There will be performance, music, alternative gallery tours and of course crafts.

The Knit List will be providing materials to help you leave your woolly mark on the museum space.  Yarn-bombing seen as a way to alter public space to colour unloved or clinical areas or simply place a hidden spot of colour to make a passer- by smile.

It doesn’t matter if you have never knitted before or you knit everyday the workshop is open to all.

Plus, if you don’t fancy knitting you can always watch and have a cocktail.

Let’s make it colourful!

For more information check out:

FACEBOOK PAGE – PROVOCATIVELY LATE HERE

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I’m always really grateful when friends  forward me, message, email or tag me with any knitted related articles they find.  

They are always elective, interesting, sometimes slightly bonkers and always right up my street.  

I love them so much so I thought I would create a top ten of the best ones from 2013.  

So, thank you friends and don’t stop sharing.

Happy 2014!

1. Hot by Dean Chalky

Photographer Dean Chalky’s message was to layer up rather than hiking up the heating.  Getting his green message across in this playful way and relevant right now with the winter chills.

“To make the point in a fun and impactful way, I wanted to make a jumper that was extraordinary so we found Korina Kyriakou, a jumper maker extraordinaire, and she designed and knitted something a little crazy for the shoot.”

Check out for more info: Do the Green Thing

2. Carosa Woolen Coats , Vogue 1969

These ladies are fashionably warm.

3. Lab (Skeleton) by Shanell Pap

Crocheted skeleton by Shannel Pap with internal organs.

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Check out Shanell Pap’s wordpress site here.

4. India & Purry with MikoMyco

India & Purry collaborate with Mikomyco to create these gorgeous hand-dyed scarves in good old New York.

Wanna know more? Check out: India & Perry and Mikomyco.

5. Cabled Sweater Chair

I was sent this picture on facebook and then pleased to find the pattern in a book in a second-hand store.

6.  Andrea Crews Bodysuit

Full-knitted body suit anyone? And it doesn’t stop there check out their clothes, art and activism.

                                                              Go see  http://www.andreacrews.com.

7. Katie Jenkins Crocheted Art

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Based in Brighton this brilliant yarn artist creates fun and quirky pieces in her Crocheted Art and also sells knitted clothes in Cardigan.

8. Vaginal Knitting by artist Casey Jenkins

Yes, it is what you imagine. A performance piece created by Australian artist Casey Jenkins in which she inserts wool into her vagina and knits a scarf from it over 28 days.

Check out this  interesting Guardian article of her response to the 3.5 million views of the youtube video.

9. Witness To Your Splendor Celtic Knot

Okay not technically knitting but this celctic knot allures you with its name alone.

I’m sure it would look splendid combined with a knitted piece.

10. Swants aka Sweater Pants by Stephen West

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These amazing creations are out of an old wooly jumper. Keep the downstairs warm whilst recycling them unwanted jumpers.  Designed by the talented Stephen West.

Do check out www.westknits.com.

Don’t forget the Swants dance!

I am about to embark into the world of machine knitting on London’s Morley College Experimental Machine Knitting course which I am really excited about.

I won’t be laying down my needles but I’m really looking forward to learning this new skill and sharing my learning here in The Knit List.

Until then, here’s my machine knitting pinterest board to have a gander at.

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