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Twist Collective BlogTwist Style Friday: Finery
Every Friday we feature one of the garments from the magazine in a post about styling. We suggest different ways to wear the garment in question using mock-ups from Polyvore. We encourage readers to tell us what they think about these outfits via our Facebook page or Twitter, and if folks want to make their own outfits, please tweet them at us with the hashtag #twiststyle. You can find all of the Style Friday posts here.
Marnie, here. Carly asked me to fill in for her, this Friday, which is an intimidating task, indeed. For the past seven years, I have been working from home, and my sartorial decisions are based primarily on temperature. Giant red bathrobe for cold days, just my normal pajama bottoms and t-shirt on hot days. Suffice to say, my fashion sense has waned a bit, during these years in the fashion desert, that is my home.
I'm hoping some of Carly's brilliant fashion sense has rubbed off on me. I always love her Fashion Friday posts and look forward to being fashionable vicariously through her each Friday. With that said, since it's the first Style Friday post of the season, I get to pick from the entire edition and I just knew I wanted to pick Finery, for my post.
I loved Karolina Eckerdals piece right from the submission. The delicate mesh detailing, hidden button placket and waist shaping make this a perfect Spring cardigan.
My first instinct is to pair this with a dress or skirt. The mesh lace doesn't read frilly or fussy. If this stitch pattern were a color, it'd be a hard-working, easy to wear neutral that can be paired with almost anything. Since the garment will pick up the mood and feel of whatever you pair it with, I thought it might be fun to really play up its Spring/Summer side. Whether you wear it with a casual knit dress and flats, to the office with a skirt and top, or out on the town for a date night, Finery really pulls the look together.
I'll be honest, though, as much as I love dresses, I basically never wear them. Pants (trousers for my readers in the UK) are more my thing, and Finery is going to work just beautifully with them. You can always tell which item of clothing is mine, from all the dog hair, so I thought I'd go ahead and make a pup an official styling accessory.
Finery is comfortable being casual, fun, dressy or professional and I think it'll make a great addition to almost any wardrobe. How will you wear Finery?
PS. Did you notice the fantastic accessory you could currently win from Jordana Paige and Twist Collective? Quinn Bag by Jordana Paige Giveaway
Mother’s day is coming up soon and it seems like a good time to remember women who have inspired us, mentored us, guided us and made us better people. We want to hear your stories about a woman who has made a positive difference in your life and what she means to you.
We will be giving away Twist Collective pattern gift certificates to our five favorite stories and sharing those stories with our readers on the blog. Then we’ll pick one person at random, from all the submissions to receive one of these beautiful Quinn bags from Jordana Paige, in the color of your choice. Jordana Paige has been creating beautiful bags for knitters, for over a decade, and the Quinn bag is no exception. Check out all the features, details and colors here. The Quinn bag is sure to keep your knitting organized and safe from snags, snips and soot, but the bag is so beautiful, and so thoughtfully designed, you may end up using it for your regular handbag, too.
Design Process: Sugarbeach
Have you noticed that my Sugarbeach top has cables that divide and then flow around the V-neck to frame the face? It’s a pet idea of mine that I often include in my sweater designs. It serves to create a focal point for the garment and shows that you have spent time and effort to create a couture piece.
How does hand knitting differ from commercial practices?
Why do we need a focal point?
How do we draw the eye towards the neckline?
We can choose lines that create arrow shapes with the tip pointing towards the face - Rebecca & Chartres are both examples of this.
We can add collars and worked in contrasting colours they are be especially eye catching, as with Charleston.
Or we can add feature patterning in the yoke area, which creates an effect a little like placing a piece of jewelry there. Merise is a great example of this.
We can also continue the patterning around the neckline rather than just cutting into it to do the shaping, like in Mehndi & of course with Sugarbeach.
With these design elements it is often important to finish on a specific row before beginning the change in patterning or shaping. So we need to pay attention to row gauge and the length that you need to make the piece. You can’t just knit a few more rows to achieve the correct length and still end on the correct row of the pattern. How do ensure that the correct row of the pattern is at the neckline?
OR to lengthen add extra rows before working row 1 of the pattern. These rows should be worked from the top of the chart as though you were ending a previous repeat before you begin working row 1. I hope this has given you some food for thought and Happy Knitting! Wash It Weekend!
I was looking at the pile of stinky, dirty, nacho-cheese stained well-loved handknits I have sitting around and I've decided to declare this Twist Collective Wash It Weekend! Spring is coming (or for some of you luckier people, already here) and it's time to get everything nice and clean so you can put away the heavy duty woolens and make room for your spring/summer knit wardrobe (hint hint). Need a refresher (pun intended)? See our blocking article and our tutorial on darning! Mend it! Wash it! Put it away! I've already begun. Who's with me? More Articles...Subcategories
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Today's post is from Fiona Ellis. Fans of Twist are no stranger to her work. In the nearly six years we've been publishing, she's produced 21 designs for us. Today, she talks about her latest, 
