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What’s in a square? (2)
A few more trips up and down Dulwich Road offered up new possible content (see What’s…
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Brockwell Lido Grille – Planning
I’m sticking with the Lido, because the window grille is a lovely piece of ageing municipal…
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Brockwell Lido Wall – FINAL
An homage to the Lido’s bricks rather than a copy. The finished square has a flavour…
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Brockwell Lido Wall – Test 3
Well, this was a bit of a disappointment because I was hoping this test would be…
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Brockwell Lido Wall – Test 2
A couple of steps forward from Test 1, one step back. Resources Changes in bold What…
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Stitch dictionaries
Inspiration for stitches and patterns comes from all over the place. These are the printed publications…
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Layout 1
This is my first attempt to place the ideas from an earlier post into the 7…
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Brockwell Lido Wall – Test 1
Seems a nice, easy place to start (over-confident already). These images give me a good idea…
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What’s in a square?
A few ideas are beginning to gel for what I might aim to represent in the…
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And so it begins…
I spent last year knitting Debbie Abrahams’ glorious Mystery Blanket for 2025, ‘The Seashore’. Inspired by…
Dulwich Road. Doesn’t sound much, does it? And isn’t in Dulwich. Just on the way there from central London. But it’s my home, or near it. In 35 years of living locally, I must have walked, cycled, dragged childen, bussed or driven along Dulwich Road a thousand times. Maybe several thousand. It’s so familiar that it barely registers, and yet there’s so much here to notice and record. Can’t draw, don’t want to write poetry … but I do love to knit. So here’s the plan. Present the sights and feel of Dulwich Road through the medium of yarn in 49 x 7-inch specially designed knitted squares that will build into a blanket. The blog starts before the first stitch was cast on, and I hope it will take me to 49 finished squares. Design notes are ideas for layout, inspiration, choice of landmarks and the stitches that might represent them. I act on those ideas in the test swatches and then notes on finished squares + patterns complete the process. I don’t think I need to explain what you’ll find in the beginner’s fails category.
This is the stumbling journey of an experienced knitter who is new to design. I could do with your hand to hold along the road. Pat 😊 (patgsmith on Ravelry)
KNITTING UP DULWICH ROAD 