Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Lucy at the Loop
Last week-end those of us lucky enough to live in the Halifax area had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with Lucy Neatby at our downtown yarn shop, the Loop Craft Cafe. It was a blustery, rainy day, but you would never guess it from all the sunshine colours around us in the shop. And from Lucy herself in her unmistakeable Lucy-green dress.
For those of you who don't already know about Lucy: She is a wonderful designer, teacher, and now knitting filmmaker. She has released her series of instructional DVD's, called "Knitter's Companion", each containing enough information for a number of individual workshops. She has explored all the intricacies of sock knitting, double knitting, cast-ons and bind-offs, knitting with beads, lace, finishing, well, you name it. And there are more to come. Her two latest DVD's are on intarsia.
At the Loop to display some of her work, meet knitters and show excerpts from her new DVD's, Lucy let us know what she is into now:
Holes! Lots and lots of holes!
Her Emperor's New Vest is an earlier attempt at punching holes through her knitting. Since then she has developed some new patterns that are simply stunning. Like this beautiful capelet that makes the most of a self-striping Noro yarn.
Overseeing the day and hosting the event was the lovely Mimi, one of the owners of the shop:
Thanks, Mimi, to you and Lucy for the great afternoon--and to Corrie for her amazing shortbread cookies!
