A romantic look at this country, you would probably not have been pleased with the tar sands of Canada video so you are spared that but there is evil out there to. Remember 'Peak Oil' well it has transformed itself into 'cannibalistic oil', it costs more and more to produce, so eventually it will reach a quarter of its production cost to produce.
A video this morning from my favourite knitting programme - Fruity Knitting. Mother and daughter, the mother is Australian but lives in Germany interviews people concerned with the production of wool and knitting travels to England. So in this short half an hour, you will glimpse Cumbria then back across the border to Yorkshire for a quick tour of Haworth (Bronte) and then Yarndale festival, and then to meet my favourite old man Kaffe Fassett.
Enjoy, I would also point out that there are men knitters as well;)
What a super half hour I spent looking at this Thelma - such interesting people and such beautiful work. In my handicraft days before I developed BET Kaffe Fassett was my inspiration for so many of my designs both in wool work and in making my quilts. What lovely girls they are who made the film too.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it Pat. It was the journey that was interesting, I think when they do their next video it will be much longer.
DeleteBig fan of Kaffe here :) been lucky to hear him talk twice, met him once. Just about to start a new "poppies" waistcoat for myself, I wore the last one out. I've seen a few of the Fruity Knitting Youtubes, but didn't take to them.
ReplyDeleteI think the family who produce 'Fruity knitting' had an original take on producing videos of world wide designers, though the length of the videos could sometimes be long. But as I said to Pat this is more about the journey.
DeleteI started knitting in my younger years, but did not stick with it. I did crochet for a bit longer...oh well.
ReplyDeleteI went the full hog. Spun and dyed wool, I think it became too much when I bought a loom though;)
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting vlog, what inspirational women, thanks for the link. . Many years ago I knitted a Kaffe Fassett cardigan, I still have it and still thinks it’s beautiful but nowadays I stick to simpler things. I also attended spinning classes for a while but really i didn’t see the point of all that work when there is so much lovely ready spun yarn to be had. I think I may be lazy.
ReplyDeleteI remember the long flowing ones that took up a lot of wool. He created a lot of stuff, not only in knitting but tapestry work and now of course quilts. As I have grown older I find the colours too strong though.
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