It's a wrap
The Honululu Advertiser - July 28 2006
When the music swells tomorrow night at Café Sistina, it will mark the morphing of a dancer into a designer. Pam Sandridge sees the event as a coming-out party for her funky, fashionable hand-knitted shrugs as well as a reincarnation of herself.[...] Last year, the little hobby became a passion as she took her hand-knitted shrugs to a whole new level.
What's a shrug, you ask? Think teensy short sweater with long sleeves. That's a loose definition. Sandridge, however, is incapable of thinking inside the box, so her shrugs have taken a variety of shapes, from long sleeves to sleeveless. Some are mini-capelets that drape over one shoulder.
Sandridge's shrugs have a whimsical feeling about them. Perhaps that's because the process is purely organic: "When I start out (knitting) I don't know where I'm going with it. I just knit away and when it goes on a detour, I go with it. The textures and rhythms of new yarns make it come alive," she explained. "Every one is an original. Even if I tried to repeat a pattern, I wouldn't be able to."
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