I posted a while ago about the exhibition on knitwear used during WWI, but I didn't mention in that short blogpost how the exhibition idea originated. The reason for this knitting project was a film about two young men going off to war. The film is based on a true story of one family.

The film has been all finished now, and it's available through vimeo, where you can either rent or buy it. There's also a trailer (free to watch, of course) that is already featuring quite a few bits and pieces of beautiful knitting.

Speaking of knitting - my own hat knitting has only progressed very little over the weekend. I'm working on the sides of the hat now, and there's still a good bit (about 12 cm or so) to go before I can get started on the brim (which is the most fun part of the whole pattern).

[caption id="attachment_2210" align="alignnone" width="640"] The hat in progress. Sloow progress... as it's often the case for me.


The one single earring in the knitting marks the edge of the flat crown and start of the cylindrical part, the other ones are my usual stitch markers. I really like to use earrings (the small hoop type) as stitch markers - they are small, they are pretty, they are available in different designs so you can mark different spots, they can be opened and all that gives me a perfect excuse to buy some from time to time. (I like the look of them. I even had my ears pierced ages ago, but I'm not a wear-earrings-daily type of person, and wearing them occasionally only always led to pain and infection... so I stopped wearing them altogether, and now I'm getting the earring-fix through knitting.)