Beyond Knitting
Logalong: Knittable Nature
Dear Kay,
It is a busy day for me (get your mammograms, everybody!), so I’ll be brief.
Remember how we’ve spent the past 15 years staring at grids of various kinds—buildings, drain grates, paintings—and asking, “Can I knit that?”
The answer is usually yes.
Yesterday I was struck by the images that Cristina Shiffman, our fearless social media maven, posted on our Instagram. The aerial images of Kuekenhof Gardens in the Netherlands are so graphic, so obviously knittable, that it makes me want to dig into our Donegal Tweed and start cranking out a tulip-field-inspired log cabin blanket.
It led me, as the internet does, down a rabbit hole of knittable aerial images. Take a minute out of your busy day to go here, a Pinterest board by Nikola Grozdanov. It makes you a) love the world, b) love photographers who capture these dazzling sights, and c) want to cast on.
Here’s one example of horticulture as blanket.
Look! It’s glorious tulip fields somewhere in the Netherlands.
Voila! Our Station Wagon Blanket, the garter-stitch blanket by Mary Jane Mucklestone featured in MDK Field Guide No. 1: Stripes.
You can find this kit—a veritable symphony of Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted—in the MDK Shop.
If you haven’t taken a spin through #fringeandfriendslogalong on Instagram, it’s getting very delicious.
Love,
Ann
Anylogcabinkitsales.
We have three log cabin kits in the MDK Shop:
Ninepatch Blanket Kit: https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/shop/ninepatch-blanket-kit/
Log Cabin Dishcloths Kit: https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/shop/log-cabin-cloths-kit/
Sommerfeld Shawl Kit: https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/shop/sommerfeld-shawl-kit/
And patterns for all three appear in MDK Field Guide No. 4: Log Cabin.
https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/shop/mason-dixon-knitting-field-guide-no-4-log-cabin/
These aerial photos are perhaps one of the coolest rabbit holes you have sent us on! How inspiring!
Reminds me of a related knitting project that people can do. It is called “Knit the Sky”, wear everyday for a year you look out your window and see what colors are in the sky and knit a few rows accordingly. Google for further information I think a book and even kids are available.
That should have been even KITS are available!
Years ago friends gave us Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s book, Earth From Above. A beautiful coffee table book of photographs of the earth, “from above”. I never thought of translating those beautiful patterns to fiber. Thanks for the inspiration.
I checked this book out from the library recently (and it’s huge), and I had to buy it because it’s so incredible!
Inspiration for all kinds of endeavors, painting, knitting, crochet, quilting…and beautiful photographs to boot. Love!
Well then, you might also like this – camouflage knitting featured in The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2018/jan/24/camouflage-knitting-in-pictures
Amazing!
I suddenly can’t stop seeing log cabin possibilities. They’re everywhere!!!
Daily Overview is another good site: http://www.dailyoverview.com/
Oh my, that was wonderful.
I would check out the tulip fields in LaConner, Washington. I wonder how they are different than the fields in the Netherlands?? I no longer live in Washington, but have been to the fields many times. They are beautiful! Mmmmm, an idea for another logalong pattern 🙂