I am Princess Magpie

Many thanks to my friend Chris Harrell, who forwarded this link to me last week ... it links to a video of a fascinating man, Kaffe Fassett of London (born in California, a "transplant" to England in the Sixties) ...

Kaffe started his artistic life as an artist working with paint. He quickly became enamored of the color and pattern and sensuality of ... textiles. In particular, YARN. He learned to knit and has never stopped.

This video (yes, it's long, but WELL WORTH EVERY MOMENT SPENT WATCHING IT) covers Kaffe's views on ... art. color. pattern. craft. textiles. knitting. the SENSUALITY he talks about in textiles is one that grabbed me by the hand and drug me deeper into this video.

As an (now somewhat retired) interior designer, I always found that it was the COLOR and the TEXTURE of things that attracted me the most.

I hope you enjoy his story as much as I am ... honestly, I haven't even seen the entire 47 minutes of this clip yet! I just couldn't wait to share it with you all ...

http://media.xstream.dk/dk4_2006/Kaffe_720.wmv

-- Princess Magpie