Elle Yarns

I had the pleasure of attending an Elle Yarns Fashion Show on Friday evening. It was held in the hall of a local school, arranged by my local yarn shop (I think I may have mentioned my LYS before....). An unlikely scenario then for the rather glamorous young Elle models. It's always interesting to see yarns knitted up though - actual garments give us the real picture, don't they?

Some interesting designs - quite a lot of plain shapes accessorised with detailing such as beadsand embrodery, and a rather nice corsage on one wrapover cardigan. One design which stood out for me was a very cute red cabled cardigan and also some flattering ribbed garments.

I saw the big white coat which is on the cover of the new Knitting magazine (bought in WH Smith just today). It was worn by the most beautiful girl who could have worn a bin liner and still looked wonderful. Needlesss to say, it looked fabulous but all I could think was it's 199 stitches and knit for a metre and that's just to the bottom of the armholes. Plus that's just the back.....

When one of the chaps came out wearing a sweater which had was reverse stocking stitch with the seams on the outside (design feature, darling..). A couple of ladies beside me were having some difficulty making sense of it - "He's got it on inside out!" they hissed. "I don't think he does," I hissed back. When he came near us, we all grabbed the sweater to check out the exact situation, getting a good look at the inside. Everybody laughed because that's what knitters do, isn't it? We all check out the seams and the reverse side. It's just as interesting as the right side. Poor chap though, getting pulled about by voracious knitters.

Posted by Anita at October 8, 2005 10:36 PM