I’m storyboarding product ideas for a design project at the moment and in my research travels came across this interesting (or is it bizarre?) rug based on traditional Aran knit sweaters. It’s by Netherlands-based designer Christien Meindertsma.

Confused by the scale of those – I want to say doll’s – legs in relation to the rug? Here’s another only slightly less mind bending image:

Meanwhile, you may have already seen these new Milan 2010-launched Mangas Farol rugs by everyone’s favourite designer Patricia Urquiola for the brand Gandia Blasco. You can buy them here. Creating a patchwork of different wool knits, they come in four different shapes ‘to combine as sleeves,’ apparently. An idea that plain boggles my mind. I mean, are we being challenged to map out a whole jumper on the floor? And just how big does Gandia Blasco think our houses are?

Don’t get me wrong, I actually like the ideas behind both designs. But is the future jumper rugs? Here’s a few vintage knitting patterns I found in my Mum’s cupboard, which you can enjoy while you try to answer that.

Chinese calendar

In a high powered business meeting over at my gaff lately, My Friend enthused at the sight of this calendar, bought for under a fiver at the art shop in China Town. It’s made up of that very thin almost tracing paper and there’s a great satisfaction to ripping a page off every day. Not […]

Delphiniums + 1/4 of a shelf reveal

Two things: 1. The beautiful delphiniums that I planted in my front garden a few months ago. You must be nuts if you don’t love that dusky grey-ish pink. I love that dusky grey-ish pink. 2. My latest super-long living room shelf. Well, a quarter of it. The rest is ‘evolving’. As in, there are […]

Flat farewell

Posting from the local pub, waiting to collect keys to a new flat. For the most part I won’t be sad to leave, but I always did like the big windows, and the balcony out the back. So here, hopefully, is my goodbye photo of my old flat. I think it about sums it up.

That’s a horrible moodboard

…so quoth my house guest when he saw me taking pictures of this. But you know how it is, when a colour combination pulls on your coat and won’t leave you alone. I’m this close to having a living room to decorate, and allowing myself to daydream, spending some time hanging out with unsuitable prints […]