KNITSTER

One thing I’ve always enjoyed when I have the opportunity to visit my local IKEA store is that they always have a display out (or at least this past year they have) of a makeshift yarn store, and how you can use various shelving and office furniture that they have for such a business setup. My son even knows to bring me to it, even though they use less quality yarn for the display, he knows I get a kick out of it.

I’ve loved IKEA, ever since it came to this country. I believe the first store was in Plymouth Meeting, PA, (and it’s still where the US headquarters are, as well as a revamped store). I remember as a teenager that a catalog came in the mail for my parents, and I would pour over it, and thought that it was such a cool concept. I think we eventually went over to visit, and while my parents weren’t that impressed (it was a lot more modern for their tastes, especially back then), I loved it. Ever since, I’m a devoted IKEA fan, and we have a lot of IKEA furniture and storage and other sundry items from there. With the presence of the internet, I discovered a site (no, not the IKEA site, although I look at that regularly) that actually has to do with IKEA hacks– in other words, people taking IKEA items, and reworking them in some way to suit their needs, like using the wall cabinets as a base to make a banquette, or taking different elements from different IKEA storage and bookcase units to make a bar– stuff like that.

And what does this have to do with knitting, you ask? Well, I was looking at the IKEA Hacker blog (which is a really cool site, by the way), and in this one entry, they talked about the versatility of a particular light fixture that you can use. In the article, if you scroll down to the bottom, you can see how knitting and IKEA can mesh together.

SWEET.

Now, if I can just find some other ways to combine the two….

Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Dani
Filed under: General, Patterns, Projects