stunning knitted home accessories

After 10 years working as a knitwear designer for a number of international fashion brands,Melanie Porter turned her expertise to restoring and upholstering furniture, developing a range of knitted home accessories, including lamps, cushions and clocks.

Whether it’s restoring and upholstering a chair, crocheting buttons, or felting woollen panels, it’s all done by hand, by Melanie herself.

Knitted jumpers for penguins

There was a big fuss lately online about the  Knits for Nature program of the  Philip Island Penguin Foundation. The Foundation claims that these jumpers are used for rehabilitation of any rescued oiled penguins, while other scientists claim that they are not helpful at all.

Either these little cute jumpers are really used for rehabilitation purposes or for dressing the stuffed toy penguins for the gift shop of the foundation, they still are very cute and help raising funds for the foundations.
You can read more here and you want to knit a jumper, you can find the pattern here.

on stuffed toy penguins, and the sales of those benefit the charity.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/penguins.asp#vvAm2mj9yhCLmAfC.99

on stuffed toy penguins, and the sales of those benefit the charity.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/penguins.asp#vvAm2mj9yhCLmAfC.99