VOGUE KNITTING: Live!

This has to be one of the year's most brilliant ideas: Vogue Knitting has produced a short video to go with their Fall 2008 Issue (the one with those fab mittens). Imagine seeing the sweater you're thinking about casting on in motion on a real live human being! What will they think of next??

Thanks to Dallas for the link.

And take note of this from a VK email:

Save the Date:
Designer guest chat with Jared Flood! (Brooklyn Tweed)
WHO: Cover mitten designer Jared Flood
WHEN: Wednesday, August 27 at 12 p.m.
WHAT: Are you knitting our Fall ‘08 cover project or thinking about it? Talk to the man behind the mittens in an exclusive live chat with designer Jared Flood. Stop in at VogueKnitting.com next week for all the details.

Good times ahead for knitters!

Brooklyn Tweed and The World's Best Mittens

Brooklyn Tweed has done it again! See those incredible mittens? They're his.

And if you want to see them up close, visit his blog. At the risk of sounding like a fangrrl, they are the most exquisite handcrafted objects I've ever seen. You know how mittens are often big and floppy, kind of like clown shoes for your hands? Not Brooklyn Tweed's mittens. They actually look elegant. Elegant mittens! Who would have thought such a thing was possible. Look at the intricate cabling, the stitch definition, the abso-freaking-lutely everything.

I'm telling you they're a work of art and the ONLY REASON why I would ever leave the house in this hideously hot weather. I've gotta find a copy of Vogue Knitting Fall '08!