Vintage inspired hand-knit vest

This seems to be my most popular piece. It's hand knitted from a 4ply cotton yarn with a leaf design that widens down the body for the hips. The belt tie is hand dyed and printed silk with a peony and beetle design, and the brooch is a knitted wool peony with embroidery. One of the most time consuming pieces, and one of 2 pieces I've put on my new Folksy shop, so we'll see if it gets any interest!

Front and back of my vintage inspired corset/waist cincher/suspender. I think girdle is probably the right word, but it's not a nice one!

This is knitted with one strand of wool and one of cotton so it is quite a solid but soft knit. The embellishments are silk that has been screen printed with my drawings and then hand embroidered over, and the suspender straps are soft dyed silk and little buttons.

One of my finished pieces: Knitted pure merino slippers with printed silk insole, printed and embroidered leather sole and hand dyed silk ties. I made the ties long so they would wrap up around the leg, and have sewn some little knitted leaves on the ends to finish. I think they're very cute, and the wool is beautiful and soft. About a size 4-7.

Neck piece

Just wanted to share this piece that I think is finished now... the base is a bit of knitting I did weeks ago and put aside as an experiment that hadn't worked. But the flowers make it something else entirely, and with the butterflies added I think this is one of my favourite pieces. Here's hoping my tutors agree!
I also hope this might be a bit more what they're looking for in the Knitting Competition later this year, which would mean I'd be able to exhibit at the knitting and stitching show in Harrogate in November. Fingers crossed!

The first finished piece for my major project... one down, about ten to go!

This is a sort of waist-cincher belt with screen printed silk and embroidery with soft suede ties. The base is knitted strips of silk, which took about 3 metres of my hand dyed stuff so I will probably never have the money or time to do again!

A couple of pieces in progress... I thought knitting was relaxing until I decided to do it for my project! I am getting a lot faster though, and creating my own patterns has been a steep learning curve!

Printed and embroidered silk bra-top. Its still in the process of being made and will include some knitted straps I think. I think when it's finished this might be one of my favourites.

These knickers are very cute I think, with a stencil printed silk bow and tie. Unfortunatley since they're for 'fashion', they're about a size 6 so too small for my big bum! They also had the women in the wool shop here a bit concerned that they would be no good for swimming... I assured them that that wasn't really a requirement for my degree show, and they went back to trying to sell me more wool.

Some pictures of my minor project installation. The drape is an embroidered screen print with hanging silk petals, and the body is newsprint half covered with an embroidered hand felted piece. I am very happy with the result, and it got a lot of admiration in the corridor at college- happy days!

Just a sample... a work in progress developing my current project.

I'm sure I'll have time to add more soon!