This year Jelly and Jacksons are working together again on a project for Reading’s Heritage Weekend – 9th to 11th September.
Suzanne and I had a chat with the lovely people at Jacksons and were excited by a book written by a member of staff. The book featured a collection of old photographs of the store and illustrated the changing fashions over the decades.
This has led me to design a piece of knitwear initally inspired by the Jacksons archive images. I researched vintage knitwear pieces with particular reference to one of my favourite fashion decades the 1920′s (see images from my sketchbook)
My garment is machine knitted using ‘stylecraft – 4 ply’ yarn available from Jacksons. The finished garment will be on display during the Heritage Weekend and during Septembers Third Thursday event. The image below shows a section of my garment for the Jacksons project.
Would you like to get involved with the project too?
How to get involved:
Last year the Outcasts designed a pattern to make a candle for the knitted Jacksons birthday cake.
This year we invite the Outcasts to design ‘vintage inspired’ hand knitted or crochet patterns. The patterns will be made available download online during the Jacksons Heritage weekend.
We would recommend that the patten should be for something small, made from one skein of yarn such as a brooches, cuffs, bracelets, socks, toys. The possibilites are endless and all ideas welcome. There is yarn left over from my garment which will be available for the Outcasts to use.
Deadline date for finished patterns: 1st September 2011
If you’d like to join in please register your interest in the comment box below and we will be in contact again soon with more info. I shall also be at knit night on Wednesday 3rd August to discuss the project.
Other wooly, crafty and fashiony dates for the diary of events happening in September:
5th to 11th September – Wool Week. Events all over the UK. See website for more info –
15th September – Jelly Third Thursday Event.
16th September – London Fashion Week – Spring/Summer 2012
22nd to 28th September – Origin – Contemporary Craft Fair, Spitalfield Market, London.
Very exciting! I’m in.
I’m in , work and elderly family permiting
That all sounds tremendously exciting and I would love to be involved!
Can’t wait to see the final garment too x
I’m in! Of course, I grabbed a ball of wool at knit night so you probably know that already.
I’ll knit some kind of fingerless gloves/mitts/cuffs/hand thing, off to do a little bit of research about the era. While a lot of people think of fingerless mitts as a pretty modern thing, they were very popular in the Victorian era, so I’m sure they existed in the ’20s as well.
I’m working on something now!
I’m in!!!