Knit a Poppy Campaign - Many Thanks

The Knit a Poppy Campaign is drawing to a close at midnight tonight GMT.
As editor Susan says, 'Donations have surpassed our wildest dreams standing at present at £2632.00. It's quite astonishing, thank you all so much...' adding that there is still time however if you would still like to get your poppy pattern by making your £2 donation here.

I'd like to echo Susan's thanks to everyone who downloaded the pattern and donated to the very worthy Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal in doing so.

There have been some interesting adaptations of the original pattern with great results.
Here are just a few of the poppies you have all made.

by Gavin Crawford


by Skein Queen's 12 year old son


by Skiff Vintage


by Ingrid and Grace Murnane

by Chrissy Fletcher

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Knitonthenet on the Airwaves

Airline Tele-Dial Radio by The Rocketeer on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons Licence.

Knitonthenet has had some great coverage on radio and podcasts recently.

BBC Radio 2's Sarah Kennedy talked about the Knit a Poppy campaign on 3rd November which led to flood of downloads of the pattern! A big thank you to her for that. If you are in the UK, you can listen-again to her radio show on BBC iPlayer here for the rest of the week. If it makes it to a podcast I will link to that too for everybody else.

Since the announcement we have raised £1690 for the British Legion. Many thanks to all who have donated by downloading the pattern.

Hoxton Handmade also gave us a review on her excellent podcast, the Electric Sheep. It starts at about 23 minutes into Episode 15.

In reviewing both Issues 8 and 9 of knitonthenet, she made special mention of the Glamour issue's Miss Moneypenny cardigan, Quadrato headscarf, Miss De Havilland top and Joan Crawford jacket. Also of the two scarf/belt Bravado patterns and Mia sunhat in the current Wanderlust issue. Check it out!

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Announcing: In the Loop 2

After the success of last year's In the Loop knitting conference, held at Winchester School of Art, there is to be another, this time held in Shetland.

Knitonthenet editor Susan Crawford will be one of the keynote speakers there and there is also a general call for papers, below.

Keep checking the In the Loop website for more details of the conference.

IN THE LOOP 2 - CALL FOR PAPERS
Knitting: origins and evolution

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A four day international conference

SHETLAND MUSEUM & ARCHIVES
Lerwick, Shetland
1-4 September 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Susan Crawford
Deirdre Nelson
Annemor Sundbø

In response to the success of In the Loop held at Winchester School of Art in July 2008, and the continuing interest in knitting, this second interdisciplinary conference proposes an exploration of knitting from a broad range of practical and theoretical perspectives within the theme of tradition and renewal. Proposed papers that cross geographical or chronological boundaries in the following areas are of particular interest:

Knitting - traditions and their renewal in the 21st century
Knitting narratives - film, literature, music, poetry and the internet
Knitting - fashion knitwear including the industry
Knitting cultures from across the world
Knitting - artists and designers crossing boundaries

We welcome new and recent research in the form of short abstracts up to 300 words from practitioners, knitters, historians, conservators, theorists, educators, curators, technologists and the industry. Abstracts will be considered for formal 20 minute papers.

Deadline for abstracts: January 11, 2010
Notification of decision: March 1, 2010

All enquires and abstracts to the Conference Administrator: J.A. Horgan[at]soton.ac.uk

Please forward to any interested parties.

Selected papers or visual essays will be considered for publication by Shetland Museum and Archives

This is a collaborative event between Shetland Museum and Archives and the University of Southampton Library. The joint organisers are Dr. Carol Christiansen and Linda Newington.

Ingrid, editorial assistant

Spooky, Spooky Halloween

Halloween Pumpkin Burning Lamp by euart on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons licence.

What plans do you have for Halloween? If you're going to a party, do you have a costume ready yet? Or appropriate attire for keeping warm whilst out Trick or Treating? Well, if not I have some suggestions to help you along because there's still time to knit a quick something before Saturday night.

Some Fingerless Boucle Gloves would look great knitted in black with a wide orange band in the centre. I have even seen lots of pumpkin and ghost buttons in the shops that you could accessorise with too.

For the chaps, I think you'll agree that a Bowtie Tie could set off your zombie outfit nicely.

Best of all though, the Tiny Tippet could look great knitted up in flesh or white, with a line of red through the middle. Wear it jauntily to the side, for that cut-throat look: it's an outfit in itself!

Happy Halloween, knitters!

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Poppy Gallery: 1

Remembrance Poppy by Milliebead on Flickr

Here is the first of our featured poppy brooches, made by Millie (mildunk on Ravelry), for knitonthenet's Knit a Poppy Campaign. Isn't it gorgeous?

You can download the pattern and help to support the British Legion's Poppy Appeal by visiting the knitonthenet site.

Please do send a photo of your finished brooch to ingrid(at)knitonthenet.com or post it in the Ravelry group. We'd love to see yours.

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Giant Knitting Needles!

Ever wondered how they make a pantomime Dame's wig?
Well now you know!

Poppies, poppies, poppies.

Exciting news! knitonthenet's Knit a Poppy Campaign is featured in This Week in Ravelry #61.

This coincides with the official launch today of the British Legion's 2009 Poppy Appeal which supports present and former members of the British armed forces and their families, emotionally, socially and financially.

We hope to get lots more people downloading Just call me Ruby's pattern and donating some money to support the British Legion's Poppy Appeal.

If you are one of them, please do add your brooch as a Ravelry project, share it with the knitonthenet group and post a photograph of your finished poppy in the knitonthenet forum.

For those not on Ravelry, you can also email me at ingrid[at]knitonthenet[dot]com and I will be posting photographs of the poppies in the blog and on our facebook fan page.

We are keeping a total of how much has been raised on the site: at the time of writing it stands at £224. Please do let us know if you raise further monies for the appeal with your poppies.

To start the gallery of poppies, here is my first effort. Let's see yours!

Poppy Brooch by InnyM on Flickr

Ingrid
editorial assistant