The Arts Tower is Finished!

Here is the finished Arts Tower.
This is the newly refurbished version of the building, which is more uniform. The original had more of a 'patchwork' effect formed by the blinds. Anyway I will take this to Sheffield next week to photograph it with the real thing.

On to the 20th century.

For my first 20th century building I am knitting the 'Arts Tower'.

The Arts Tower is in Sheffield and is home to the School of Architecture.
This, Mies van der Rohe inspired, building was designed by GMW and opened in 1966. It is now listed and has recently been refurbished. It's looking fantastic!

I have decided to use 4-ply wool and to knit in the round, on 5 needles, a bit like a sock.
It's working well but working with 4 colours simultaneously is resulting in very slow progress.

Still knitting in 2012

Happy new Year.
My new years resolution is to knit more.

 I have finished the classical columns;

They make a nice set .
I have now moved on to the 20th century but more about that later....

This is a SLOW blog!

Since my last post i have been working on Structural knitting.

 This involves knitting the yarn on a knitting machine, which is extremely tiresome, and then knitting the very chunky yarn up on big needles to form a rug. The chunky knitting is very satisfying.

Anyway, before progressing into the 20th century, I have been knitting up a complete set of columns.

The corinthian is not quite finished but the doric and ionic have worked well. Again I used Banister Fletcher's drawings of the Greek orders as my pattern.

Classical orders

There are many knitted things on the web these days, but not much knitted Architecture. In order to redress this imbalance I have started knitting Classical Orders.
I started with the Ionic working from memory.





Then continued with the corinthian capital.


For this one i used Banister Fletcher.
It is difficult to make acanthus leaves look as if they are made of stone, they tend to take a more natural look in the medium of wool.


Anyway it is very photogenic.
Thats it for now.
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