Port Fairy Shawl
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Modular handknitted shawl using mixed yarns. Made while on holiday at Port Fairy, Victoria, in 1995 and exhibited at the Women of Fibre exhibition, 1996. |
An Imagined Garden
| This shawl is reversible. It is made with many colours and types of yarn on a knitting machine used as a loom on which sets of needles are threaded up intarsia style before the carriage knits each row. A 'dot' system is used when threading. Each 'dot' uses one yarn and is three stitches wide and four stitches deep. Different dots start on different rows. When a dot is finished the yarn is cut and a new dot started giving an overall faux fur effect on the side facing . The 'dot' side isn't seen until the piece is finished. Hence most of it is 'imagined'. Made for the 1999 Unfettered Exhibition, Spiral Gallery, Bega. |  |
Matilda's Matilda
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This shawl is reversible, faux fur, made in the same way as An Imagined Garden. It is made in three pieces. The centre piece is a much patched road off into an unknown horizon. Matilda walks along the road with her big purple hat on her head and her matilda across her back. Her matilda is a curly haired infant wrapped in a plaid shawl. The side pieces are gardens on either side of her road. Matilda doesn't often get to walk in her garden…… yet. The shawl was made for the Stanthorpe Arts Festival 1996. |
Wild Threads Afghan Shawl #2
| This is the second in a series of Wild Thread Afghans and reflects a previous passion for patchwork. The shawl is made in six diamond and four triangular pieces using the same variety of yarns as the faux fur shawls but in a more ordered and deliberate set of sequences. The shawl is reversible - the other side features the ends trimmed to about six to eight inches. The shawl was made for the 1999 Unfettered Exhibition. |
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