A while ago, I blogged about knitted motifs being trendy at the moment, especially fairisle designs.
To a fairisle addict like me, this both gladdens my heart (the world is coming round to my way of thinking at last – I wonder what took it so long?!) and worries me (’tis written in the rules that Whatsoever Is Trendy Today Will Be Deeply, Shamefully, Untrendy Tomorrow, and I say that as someone who proudly wore fluorescent orange fluffy socks for all six weeks that they were cool in the 1980s – what was I thinking??)
Since writing that piece, lovely internetty friends have been sending me more examples that they’ve snapped, and I’ve seen quite a few more besides. Fellow fairisle knitters, and knitters in general, hold your heads high and adjust your lovely stranded sleeves with pride, for our moment has come and we are cool.
So, without further ado, here are samples of the unknitted knitting that you can see round here at the moment:-
First, we have Waitrose (translation for non-UK people, whom I realize comprise most of my readership: Waitrose is an upmarket-ish supermarket). All their Christmas signage around the shop has a giant stockinette-pattern background, with a scattering of stranded work. I wonder whether somebody knitted the original, or whether it’s entirely computer-generated?:-
And their products have gone all knitty on the box. Here’s some festive yumptiousness:-
Oooooh, look at that cabling! (Thank you, Selma. 🙂 )
And I think this loveliness might hide some stollen:-
So that’s Waitrose. Then we come fractionally down-market to another supermarket, Sainsbury’s, who’ve gone a bit knitted on their crockery:-
Wilkinsons (not-upmarket everything-shop) have truly embraced their stockinette:-
And again:-
And I was given a Christmas present wrapped in this:-
Very pretty, very knitted, but I’m not sure how you’d manage to create those reindeer in the top left corner.
Is it just the UK? Or is fairisle taking over the world?
I’ve noticed this too – it’s everywhere. I’ve actually got fairisle candles!
Oh wow, that sounds lovely. So it’s not just in the UK, then?
Not sure about that… we live in Wales! 🙂
Oh, SORRY. Huge apologies, I’d read your profile but then forgotten that, and got it into my head you were in the US. Oops. Sorry…
Not to worry! A lot of WordPress bloggers are from the US, so it’s an easy mistake to make!
OMG you mean to say fluffy, fluorescent orange socks have gone out of fashion?…. are you sure?.. Love all the knitty inspired goodies around at the moment, see it was only a matter of time before retailers came round to the crafters way of thinking 😀
Hey don’t let me stop you wearing yours! I’m sure they look rather fetching…
Thank you for first spotting it some time ago. It has been such great fun spying other examples! As you probably now know, google also jumped on the bandwagon yesterday too! Very trendy we are too!
I have definitely noticed. My husband works for Sainsburys and as it’s a convenient place to buy gifts I have been the recipient of many items from the ‘Nordic Pantry’ range this Christmas… He only didn’t buy all the bits because he knew I wouldn’t appreciate a supermarket bought mug hug… BUT For the second year in a row they’ve stocked sewing baskets and accoutrements and guess what! I have two sewing boxes now. ?
Yay! It really does seem to be everywhere this year. Hope your sewing boxes are getting lots of use. 🙂