Just arrived for production and rehearsal lead up to In Lieu‘s season in the OzAsia Festival. Bad $4 coffee from the Festival Centre café (isn’t there a $3-something ceiling?) but set construction is all well in hand, likely to be delivered early. Looked at Richard Serra’s amazing steel sculptures and torqued walls for early inspiration (although it is not a steel set)… more soon.
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it’s like magic!
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I meant to post last month (or was it the month before!?) about this project I am working on with choreographer Ade Suharto and composer David Kotlowy. Ade and David were artists in residence at Nexus Multicultural Arts in Adelaide in October developing the piece. I went across for a week to develop preliminary costume designs (sketch from my notebook below) and made some trial pieces for a showing of the work in progress in a double bill with Gamelan Sekar Laras. The project is slated to go into production next year, so more news soon…
These pics are of one costume piece – a pair of silk organza ‘sleeves’ and hood – that evoked falling water and ever-changing volumes in motion.
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Along the newborn knitting line…
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This is Nikki Van De Car’s Maile pattern in superwash 4-ply merino, with lovely 1950s vintage buttons I found at All Buttons Great and Small in Newtown last week.
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new nephew deserves new knits!
My BigTed from a few decades ago models an aviator style beanie and little vest in 4-ply merino. Did the hat first and found I had half a ball of wool left so I improvised the vest in the round from the bottom up. Button closures at the shoulders help to accommodate big baby heads (and bear ones too).
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Psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain.
Full story in the Telegraph here.
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One-way stretch Italian wool fabric was bought close to a decade ago at Australian designer Sally Bluff’s bolt end sale – now it is slightly 1930s inspired top (bias-looking construction, but actually it is a bit of a cheat). Jim is Mr Henson due to muppety open selvedge seams at shoulders (I think of him often).
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Teva Durham’s yoke vest – many people have blogged about Durham’s difficult sizing in general and this pattern in particular… I rewrote the pattern partly to compensate for my 180cm frame and partly because I used a different wool which made the gauge all off (3.5″ width to 10sts instead of 4″ with a US13 needle). So I added quite a bit into the yoke and hip to add length – I will post my resizing here soon. I also changed to a US11 needle for the collar – there is no way it could stand up knitted with the 13. Very fast and easy pattern however; it took a day and a half, with a bit more time in front of the tv to weave in the ends.
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Wrap-around lace sweater from Stefanie Japel’s Fitted Knits, using Madil 70% kid mohair and 30% silk in colour 459. Quite warm, but light and floaty as a cloud…
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A waisted cardigan made from four big balls of undyed wool left by my grandmother. It was based on a pattern from Stefanie Japel’s Fitted Knits, but I altered the detailing around the collar and waist, and changed the sleeves in part because I only had this much wool – I knit and un-knit the first sleeve about three times before I figured out something that could work with what I had left.
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