{"id":476,"date":"2009-05-08T14:10:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T04:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2019-06-16T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T00:59:53","slug":"knitwear-at-the-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/knitwear-at-the-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitwear at the shops for a Sydney Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I went to the city (Sydney CBD) today, meaning to find some knitted inspiration. It’s Autumn here, and getting colder. Surely there should be something in the shops to inspire a handknitter who also likes fashion? Meh, not so much.<\/p>\n

This season’s colours are clearly grey and beige (and black, of course, I can’t imagine black ever going out of fashion here). I mean: purples, coral red, a little navy and misc. jewel tones are used in other clothing, just not much for knits. Knits get the boring colours. Great.<\/p>\n

By ‘knit’, I mean ones I could be inspired by. Sure, sure, I know fine jerseys, T-shirt fabrics and so on are knits, but they couldn’t reasonably be made by a hand. So I’m really talking knits made of laceweight or thicker yarn. Yes, I know that’s an odd classification, but I’m sticking to it, leastways until I get a knitting machine …<\/p>\n

Fair isle is out. Cables and textures, particularly chunky knit, are in. Garter, or at least reverse-stocking stitch, make an appearance (oh, and Country Road lined their knits for stability this year, much less sad and saggy!)<\/p>\n

Shapes, as bland as the colours. Plenty of fine gauge turtle-necks and V-necks that say: “Don’t look at me, I’m only for layering purposes!” Long loose cradigans, Starsky<\/a>-style. Ponchos, kimono-sleeves, wraps galore. Curve-front boleroes, similar to Kate Gilbert’s famous Sunrise Circle Jacket<\/a>. Or like the cover of the current Vogue Knitting<\/a>. I guess I wanted something more … innovative? … novel? Not in a recession.<\/p>\n

But what about the photo, I hear you say. Interesting diagonal lacy panels. Texture (and, sure, beige). Well, I saw it a few weeks ago in Just Feathers boutique, King Street, Newtown. End of Summer stock, I assume. The label is SunnyGirl<\/a>, it was the last one, I hadn’t the heart to ask the shop assistant to unpin it, take it off the dummy just so I could exmaine the knitting … pity …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to the city (Sydney CBD) today, meaning to find some knitted inspiration. It’s Autumn here, and getting colder. Surely there should be something in the shops to inspire a handknitter who also likes fashion? Meh, not so much. This season’s colours are clearly grey and beige (and black, of course, I can’t imagine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,105],"tags":[126,133,129,127,240,132,128,130,131],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knit","category-sydney","tag-autumn","tag-aw09","tag-commercial","tag-fall","tag-fashion","tag-handmade","tag-knitwear","tag-shopping","tag-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t