Just received new cards, including for Christmas and lots of Resolven. Please go to ‘blank greetings cards’ page for details.
Have just ordered new cards to be printed – will add to the website when they are ready.
Hoping to print this as our Christmas card this year. Part of a window attributed to William Morris and Burne-Jones. It is in the east window of St Michael & All Angels, Forden, Wales, 1873.
Latest effort – a paddle steamer on the lake.
I put this together to show some of my travel pictures, together with diary entries for the day that the original photo was taken.
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/7883229-faceknits-travels-through-europe-in-knitted-pictur
What an amazing city – and the ceiling in the Basilica is truly wonderful. Couldn’t resist trying to knit a small portion!
Just completed this picture of a canal in Venice. Visited there on our long trip this year. Plenty of opportunities to get very lost, so no idea which canal or bridge it is! Knitted sideways due to the many vertical elements.
Here’s another picture just completed. Dresden was another interesting place we visited last year. Great mixture of old, rebuilt and new buildings in a vibrant city. The photo was taken on a Saturday morning. Outside the Cathedral was a mix of tourists, shoppers, an exhibition going up and a huge wedding party.
Just got around to photographing the two pictures I completed while we were away.
This is my new website to illustrate my knitted pictures, cushions, greetings cards etc.
I have knitted throughout my life and since 2006 have been obsessed with hand knitting images developed from photographs, most of which I have captured myself. I have not found anyone else working in the same way. None of the yarns used are bought specially, but are all collected as oddments and unwanted stock.
Just like wool oddments, photos trigger memories, and I aim to capture an expression, an attitude or moment in time, and make the viewer smile, maybe with recognitions of their own. Each split second portrayed in an image evokes many more memories surrounding the event.
I like to experiment with colour and texture, and mix yarns like paint to create an illusion of light, shade, depth and vibrancy. Even though traditional knitting methods are used, the free use of yarns creates fluidity in constructing a picture.
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