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Karie

January 4, 2009

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Welcome, welcome 2009

Karie

January 4, 2009

Asides

If you like Elliott Smith, you'd like Winterpills. Here's A Benediction.

Newer PostBooks 2009: Gregory Maguire - Wicked.

Older PostStill Coughing

Karie Westermann

I do things with wool and words. Knitwear designer, teacher and author.

And other stuff too.

This Thing of Paper by Karie Westermann

This Thing of Paper by Karie Westermann

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I think we are in Denmark, folks.

A Westermann lives here. My mum is a wonderful crocheter and has a craft room filled with colourful yarn, hooks, beads and buttons.

Not what I thought I'd be doing with my day, to be honest.

Four weeks to go! 📣📣📣Regrann from @perthfestivalofyarn - Knitting the Landscape with Karie Westermann (@kariebookish)

Psychogeography is about seeing your local environment in a new light: bike lanes, paths worn by human feet, and old forgotten rivers. It is about wandering about your home town and looking closer at things you pass every day. This class will be an exploration of how to express your memories and thoughts of a specific place using knitting as a medium.

Knitwear designer Karie Westermann will talk about her own experiences designing knitwear inspired by specific landscapes – from shawls mimicking submerged beaches to hats taking visual cues from her Glasgow cityscape. Then, together, you will begin to explore your own landscapes on the needles. What is the fabric of your own place? How can you translate the way you navigate the City into a wearable piece of knitwear? Karie will guide you in thinking about textures, stitch patterns and colours – and make you look at familiar streets in a new way.

Tickets available from www.perthfestivalofyarn.uk

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It's been an emotional week. This week family feels more important than ever. After thirteen years together Mr D and I have decided to get married in a very small, quiet ceremony next year. He'll be in a kilt; I'll be making my own outfit (as terrifying as it sounds). It feels odd to make a public announcement but 21st C life is odd, I guess?

I lost my aunt yesterday. I remember playing in her garden as a child and I was close to her daughters. I'm sitting here with memories and much sadness. In other news, here are some tiles I spotted in Glasgow today. I will tell you a story about them around 6 months from now. Go out and hug your loved ones ❤

I'm chasing deadlines at the moment but the weather in Glasgow is thankfully cool enough for me to be wearing my Incunabula cardigan.

I like visiting vintage clothes shops - tonnes of inspiration (even if these particular jumpers weren't to my taste, you can still look at how colour is being used, neckline treatment etc) and occasionally you find absolute gems. I love my little corner of Glasgow ❤

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