Prudence mapstone

I have spent the past couple of weeks in Wales and England, where the colours of the landscape have varied from the muted browns and greens of misty hills to the more vibrant greens of new folliage and the various colours of spring flowers...but one of the small bags of mixed yarns that I had brought with me has insisted on working itself into a more tropical ocean theme - as I have noticed many times before, freeforming sometimes just has a mind of its own! Week 18's scrumble began with the…

It's almost a year ago that the Crochet Coral Reef project rolled into town at the Hayward Gallery. I know that many of you were able to visit the exhibition and those who could not were able to follow it's progress round the globe. The principles involved with 'hyperbolic' crochet are deeply imbedded in the freeform crochet movement (or vice versa). I'm going to confess some lack of knowledge and experience here, but I know that it's pretty huge!!! There's someone freeforming somewhere at…

yarnbombing coordinated by Prudence Mapstone for Jumpers & Jazz 2016

for more freeform knit and crochet fibreart please visit my website at www.knotjustknitting.com

created using the methods described in Prudence's book "Freeform: serendipitous design techniques for knitting & crocheting" - see www.knotjustknitting.com for more information

to see more of my freeform creations, please visit my website - www.knotjustknitting.com

Back in September I went to Greensboro to the Knit and Crochet Show for an all day workshop on freeform with Prudence Mapstone. We worked on the floral shawl that I’ve posted earlier. In ad…

closeup of freeform fibreart fabric by Prudence Mapstone - see more of my freeform knit and crochet creations at www.knotjustknitting.com

If you are a freeform knitter/crocheter … then you would surely know of Prudence Mapstone. She is the Doyenne of freeform and I have posted about her before. Her colour work (not to mention…

Yesterday we installed the 50 Years of Flower Power collaborative freeform piece in the Warwick Art Gallery, where it will be on display in the entrance foyer until 11th September, 2016. The artwork has been tweaked somewhat. Last week I spent a couple of days unobtrusively stabilizing some of looser work. With so many previous showings, and because of the overall weight of the piece, a few sections become quite stretchy. I also reassembled the hanging to fit the length of the gallery wall…