Maybe it's because of the period of austerity that we are going through? The idea of pulling-on a extra layer of knitted coziness is really catching on. It's as if snuggling away in this nice and warm knitted comfort we could maybe simply forget the harsh and cold world out there? and it makes us think that the world is a little bit nicer place to be.
These vases from the Marie Claire idees are really easy to make, because it's simply old stockings that are cut to measure and pulled over some old vases.
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Marie Claire Idees Oct 2011 |
and these smoothies have been given a nice and warm little knitted hat.
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Innocent Smoothies |
This was one of the first times that I saw furniture that had been given on a nice warm layer of knitwear. still quite modest, it's just little socks.
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Milan Designweek 2008 - Satellite |
and this is a more recent and much more advanced. big all-over cover jacket in a complicated pattern
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Milan Designweek 2011
PlusDeSign Gallery Lambrate |