Custom screenprinted tent by Anthony Chiappin for Nikki Gabriel‘s knitting construction workshops in Sydney this weekend!
Do you know what this is? It’s a knitting tent! Purpose built, and custom screenprinted for Nikki Gabriel‘s inspired ‘Construction Knitting Workshop’ in Sydney this Friday, Saturday and Sunday as part of Sydney Design! This brilliant little temporary structure was designed and hand-printed by Nikki’s very clever fella, illustrator / designer Anthony Chiappin. 10 x husband brownie points right there, Anthony.
Anthony Chiappin screenprints Nikki’s tent!
I can’t think of a better place to knit, can you? This magical little tent will be pitched at Sydney’s Powerhouse museum this weekend, and here Nikki will personally be taking small workshop groups through the basics of knitting her brilliant construction patterns! The workshops go for 3 hrs and cost $80.00 per person. All workshop attendees will also receive a limited edition ‘Workshop Kit’ – a gorgeous screenprinted bag, Nikki Gabriel handspun wool and knitting patterns.
IF YOU ARE IN SYDNEY you should totally sign up to meet Nikki and hang out in her super cool tent this weekend! BUT, if, like me, you are not in Sydney, don’t fret – you can still win one of Nikki’s fabulous Workshop Kits right here! PLUS Nikki has thrown in an extra gift just for us – a set of her exquisite ebony knitting needles!
Nikki Gabriel super special Design Files giveaway!
Nikki has generously offered the following packs for 2 lucky Design Files readers!
- Custom screenprinted tote bag
- Construction knitting pattern
- Nikki Gabriel handspun wool
- Nikki Gabriel Ebony handmade knitting needles.
To be in the running, please leave a comment here before midnight today, Melbourne time!
*THANKS so much for all your great comments! This giveaway is now closed and the two winners have been notified by email! :)
Huge thanks to Nikki for this fab giveaway! Don’t forget to head to the Sydney Design website to sign up for Nikki’s workshop if you are in Sydney and in the mood for some tent / craft action this weekend!
Nikki Gabriel Construction Knitting Workshop
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
This Friday 13th, Saturday 14th, Sunday 15th August
More info and bookings here
230 Comments
What a fantastic giveaway! I wish I lived closer to Sydney so I could attend the workshop – sounds like a perfect place to knit!
what a gorgeous tent…it’s looks like a modern day gingerbread house but even better when you can learn to knit inside. Nikki, please bring this tent to Melbourne soon!
What a great giveaway! I love to knit. Pick me! :)
Caroline
Red Glasses
Funky tent!! Awesome looking tools for the knit!! hope I win?????
whoops…..email is…redenny@xtra.co.nz
I would love to win this prize,Nikkis blog is on my “favourites”.I think she is very clever and talented.I move to Melbourne in 3 weeks and cant wait to see her patterns at her stockists.
nice prize! i would like to knit my way to first prize.
oh waw, this is fantastic!!!
Ooh! Pick me! I’m almost finished the hat I’m knitting. :)
The perfect winter buddy! I just sewed my first piece a few weeks ago!
Fun times! X
Hi Lucy!
Looks great, shame I’m not in Sydney. Would love to play around with the knitting pack though…:-)
An inspiration and very generous. For me this year is all about getting in touch with my creative side. I amI am a knitter and have signed up for a screenprinting workshop in Melbourne. Also doing a photography workshop so I can start my own blog soon and have impressive photos to attach.
Oooo… Awesome knitting needles!! Me please!!
Is it strange that I am a man and want to knit? I don’t think so! :-)
What a great tent, it would be so fun to go and learn to knit, only if I lived in Sydney!
what wonderful effort and what a stunning knitting tent. powerhouse museum will be electric this weekend! m
Awesome Giveaway…^_^
OMG yesssssssss please! Awesome knitting tent! SWOON
Hi.. LOVE this giveaway :)
I have only just discovered the joys of knitting about a month ago, just wish I had started before winter!!! Drat!! I really love the screen printed tent… gorgeous! I am in Sydney but won’t be able to go.. money is a bit tight… sob sob!
Love Nikkii Gabriels construction ideas very cool and the knitting pack looks fantastic :)
Cheers
Lamina
laminag@hotmail.com
I can only imagine how divine it would be to knit with ebony needles. II love the clank of bamboo needles but solid timber must be something else!
Nikki please turn this into a travelling tent and visit us all! The knitting pack looks like a lot of fun to play with and I think I could even create something to make my grandma very proud.
Golly! I wish I were in Sydney this weekend. Alas, I am not :-(
I will have to enter your delightful giveaway and keep my fingers crossed.
*sighs* oh how I wish I was in Sydney, what an inspiring alcove to knit!
Good luck to all attendees, I hope you come up with some gems!
I’d love to take up knitting! Wish I lived in Sydney, but winning this fantastic prize would ease the pain a bit!
what an inspiring place to create! i’m just finishing up my first baby blanket and am anxious for my next project! .best.
Great Prize! I came across Nikki’s kits on a visit to the Hawkes Bay recently and have been kicking myself for not buying one ever since, especially with how chilly it is in the South Island over winter… Today our office is -2 degrees inside!
was just thinking that I’d love to get back into knitting. its a sign! me please. jess
Yes please, such a shame I’m not close enough to get to a workshop,
the knitting pack looks really great.
If ever there was a time for me to get crafty it would be now. How could you not feel the need with those beautiful needles. They are a work of art in themselves. …(and oh how i wish i was in Sydney!)
Can you bring the gorgeous tent to Melbourne please?
oh divine. Have been wanting to start knitting again and what an inspiration.
What an amazing tent – might have to send a sneaky hint to my man! I wish I could go check it out!
oooooooh everyone at the next stitch and bitch will be so jealous if I turn up with this! So pretty!
Oh if only I could jet to Sydney from NZ for the workshop! I am a beginner knitter but get so much inspiration from people like Nikki….. Will prizes travel to NZ??? Love your blog, could spend hours here everyday, sigh.
Such a great post! Love the tent and would love to win the prize too! I need that wool for chilly Melbourne mornings!!
Fab giveaway!Pick me!:-)
What a brilliant initiative by two brilliant people! Long time fan here! So wonderful to see how the work is being communicated on a large scale!! Go Nikki and Anthony!
Ooooh, please bring the tent down to Melbourne…we need some more woolly scarf action here…it’s so chilly in the mornings!
Who needs therapy when you have knitting with hand spun wool, gorgeous screen prints and those incredible ebony needles!! I’m not too proud to beg for them!!
Xx Cathy whatsinanaddress@hotmail.com
i heart knitting & i heart tents <3
Fantastic tent, and such a generous knowledge sharing idea! Please bring the tent and the talent to Melbourne some day soon… k
i have a new found love of sydney and a yearning for a yarn in that scrumptous tent!!
It is so wet and miserable outside, perfect knitting weather! Would love the pack. Bring the tent to Melbourne!!
What a splendiferous giveaway!
If I won I could knit one and purl one all day
And when I had finished my knitted creation
I could parade it around in utter elation!
And hurrah! what wonderful stories I’d tell
About the gorgeously talented Ms Gabriel!
And how magnificent is her and her clever man’s tent!
Do you think she might maybe perhaps perchance….
Put it up for rent?
(Pretty please?!)
x Caitlin
that looks like so much fun, and i love the bold designs!
Hello, love the construction theme. My grandma used to knit the most amazing Kaffe Fassett jackets, she would love this. Lu x Loopy200@hotmail.com
Snazzy tent with lots of applications, I would love one of those and also a wonderful workshop, maybe there is a Daylesford opportunity where there would be lots of keen knitters. Talking, knitting, having fun, it all sounds gorgeous, I want to do it!
In the throws of first love – 12 years ago – with my now husband of 10 years, I began knitting him a scarf for Melbourne’s chilly winters…. three countries, two children, and five gold fish later, I have lovingly knitted 120 rows – a true follower of the “slow” movement!
Meanwhile, my husband has bravely faced each winter……
I need all the help I can get when it comes to knitting!
Wonderful Nanna memories! And how fabulous to hold the workshop in such an gorgeous and inspirational tent! Hope the workshop is a great success!!
I want I want I want!! What a great way to kick off my knitting career! I have a feeling I’ll be just like my nana who took 6 years to complete a jumper for my dad. The wool faded so it ended up with a two toned effect!
Wow wow wow, what a fantastic tent! Love the colour and bold design. Wish I could be there to knit in it too!!
nikki is such a talent. have always loved her work.
The perfect addition to our craft-a-noon next weekend!! Maybe we should construct some kind of tent for my loungeroom hmmm
What a gorgeous give away. I am just rediscovering knitting and loving it! Please come to Melbourne!
Wow – that is generous. I would love to be part of the draw to win a kit! Thank you :O)
If only I was in Sydney. Workshop in Melbourne please! Love Nikki’s work.
Oh, if only I didn’t live so damned far from Sydney and could attend the workshop. Super cute design!
swoon – pick me! pick me!
I’m joining the campaign to bring Nikki to Melbourne. And would love to win her gorgeous giveaway. Merci beaucoup!
LOVE IT :-)
If only Sydney were a bit closer and I would be there in a flash. Gorgeous tent too.
You always have the best giveaways :)
How clever! Making it in blocks makes it MUCH more do-able… I love it.
Ooh would love to play with the knitting pack. I’m in Melbourne too, we should definitely bring her here.
I am a knitting addict and so upset I will miss this weekend with Nikki. Thank you for your inspiration.
I third the motion for a Nikki workshop in Melbourne.
And pretty please do enter me in this giveaway.
What an amazing tent and fantastic prize! I hope you come to Melbourne soon.
Hi Lucy, pick me! pick me!
I especially love the packaging & tote bag design.
My fingers are crossed :-)
Oh I wish I was in Sydney, it looks fab. Winning this prize would be too :-)
it is wet and grey and knitting weather down here in melbourne!
would love to win new project to play!
What a lovely new knitting bag this would make! I love her ‘construction tools’ branding on the knitting needles. Fantastic prize. My inner Nanna is relishing the huge number of other passionate knitters who all want this prize!
please come to Melbourne!
Knitting fills my days, not to mention my living room, my bedroom, my closets…
What beautiful clothes Nikki Gabriel creates, today is raining and cold in Brisbane.I love the comment about 120 rows of a scarf for a husband..she should win
not sure if my email was attached…
taryn.barker@hotmail.com
x
This could be the motivation i need to actually finish that misshapen scarf, urr actually i should unpick and start again with new construction tools!
Love! Love! Love!
WOW everything is beautiful and fun.
Not in Sydney : (
But would LOVE to win – how cute
Oh, it is super sweet package, and I would LOVE to win this! Happy Rainy Tuesdays x
Oooooo! Would love to win these! I’m quite the knitting fiend, and love a good tote bag to carry my stuff around in!
I just started my knitting winter project, would love some further inspiration. thx.
Today in Brisbane it is wet and rainy, perfect Nikki Gabriel knitting weather ;)
My knitting projects are spread all over the house. Knitting tote and delicious new needles would help me consolidate and actually finish something!!
LOVE the tent LOVE the bag LOVE the wool LOVE IT ALL
Wow a good excuse for me to get back into knitting.
Ooooohhh yeahhhh!!! That looks ace!
Ooo! Beautiful! fingers crossed…it’s perfect weather to knitx
Oh, it’s so gorgeous … love everything about it!
I do love big fat knitting sticks, just like how I like big fat noodles
Knit Me! Knit Me! What a super giveaway! And a lovely rainy day to knit too, thanks for the inspirational post.
What a gorgeous giveaway. Love her stuff.
oh, i am in love – please pick me…! i promise to give them a good home!
how cool, love the tent! great giveaway.
Whee, more knitting stuff…
Divine! Nikki’s prints are so inspiring! I wish I could have made it to the workshop.
I could learn a heap from you!
Ohhh, lovely. I have just hit my knitting strides of late and am itching for more!!
Love those ebony needles – love the tent too, what a gorgeous couple they make! Suzanne
Great design, great concept, great giveaway – and so generous. love the tent, the tools and the materials but especially love the gorgeous knitting bag.
I want to spend myu whole weekend there- knitting, learning, chilling….such heaven it would be compared to rainy Melbourne.
Kudos++ for the husbands design skills and generosity in making the tent.
WOW! Looks Great… and good to see they didn’t just target females…Guys Knit TOO!
I heart knitting!
Have been wanting to learn to knit for a while now! Thanks for the giveaway!
yes please! i just started my first knitting project (an apple green scarf) and this would be so wonderful!
are they coming to melbourne? i would love to do this
For my mum. She is lovely AND she can knit.
maybe this would finally make me learn how to mend my grandma’s knitted blanket..
Thx so much for including something for those of us not in Sydney so that we can feel part of the excitement.
Would love to get back into knitting.
The print is gorgeous! I would love to do the workshop if I as in syd but the prize would be such a special treat!
The perfect excuse to rug up and stay indoors for the rest of winter ;o)
yep, just what i need to help me get through the last of winter!
Hi,
I love the design files and would love to go into the competition to win the knitting pack by Nikki Gabriel. Please venture up to Brisbane one day : )
My email is monique321@hotmail.com
I’m a knitter from way back – would love to win this give away. Today in Melbourne it’s such a good day for knitting.
gorgeousness! knitting is the perfect winter sport… ;)
How exciting that a knitting space will take over Sydney for a little while!
i WANT this!
oh please i would love one!! nikki gabriel makes such wondrous things!
Beautiful, all of it, wish I was closer to Sydney
Knitted my first ever wonky but cute scarf last year. Need a new knitting project for this winter!
Nikki i just love your designs and the chunky yarn is just superb! i can see myself knitting and sewing in your divine tent. one end for me one for the kids. thanks.
Oh my goodness! I’ve been begging my friend to teach me how to knit, this would be the push in the right direction I’d need to motivate me!
EEP!
So desperately want to get my nanna on and get back into knitting……and what a truly funky way to do it…..love love love this!!
Pick me please :)
OHHH, this gorgeous giveaway from Nikki is right up my ally, I can knit side by side with my lovely mother :)
michvanetta@hotmail.com
Your blog has inspired me to start one of my own – as a place to keep all the swoon-worthy things I discover on the net – so much to see and sigh over :)
http://ohsoswoonworthy.blogspot.com/
My first photo post was a Nikki Gabriel piece – swoon!
It’s definitely cold and wet enough in Melbourne at the moment to continue with the winter knitting projects!!
Yay Anthony! I would love to win this!!!
Those knitting needles are gorgeous and would make me a very happy knitter!
what a beautiful knitting kit!
Can’t think of a more appropriate day to promote knitting – cold, wet and windy! Currently knitting a very basic scarf for my husband but your giveaway looks like the perfect opportunity to be a little more adventurous. Pick me please. Anna x
I hope the designfiles gods are shinning down on me today!
I’d luv to be in the running to win this prize.
Awesome tent.
I love it. Very inspiring. It makes me want to learn how to knit. Yes please.
Contrary to widely held beliefs, it does get cool up here in Brisbane, and we love to knit. I’d love to see you come up here and share the knitting love! Such a cute idea.
i would love to win this prize. the pictures are amazing. love the reds!
Thankyou so much for your blog – it is my daily dose of gorgeousness and clever design. I would love to win Nikki’s goodie bag – my grandmother taught me to knit and I am just getting back into it. Nikki’s site will now be in my reader as well. And the tent! I love it. What a clever team they are. Thanks again for your wonderful site.
oh oh i would love those BEAUTIFUL knitting needles to add to my collection
Love the bold geometric print design and chunky knitting needles!
I love her stuff, just beautifully designed. That tent is amazing, what a lot of precise work went into that!
Sounds great
Yipee – no more excuses for not learning to knit!
you have the best giveaways!!! Love it!
ohh my gosh i am in love, i adore those needles. wonderful post as always. thanks so much for sharing
Thats so unfair.. I want to know when Nikki comes here to Melbourne… how awesome… what a great tent too. This is the cutest little kit. yet again you have something amazing to give away. put me in the draw!!! lol. Just another thing to inspire my crazy knitting… yep yep. Cheers Brendan
I would so love to win this Fabulous prize, then maybe I could teach myself to knit.
Amazing! Amazing! I would LOVE to win this and share with my grandmother! xx
wowa weewa…i didn’t realise how many people love knitting! i think it’s time i learnt, and what better way?
It’s knot fair! Melbourne needs a knitting tent too. Gorgeous ebony knitting needles!
Great prize – wish I was in Sydney!
oooo those knitting needles and the bag!!
xxx
bee_blue22@yahoo.com
inspiring
quirky
luscious
warm
love it…..
What a wonderful response to this competition – it seems there are plenty of very keen knitters out there.
If I hear one more commentary (in places other than the design files, obviously) about the so-called ‘revival’ of handcrafts (like knitting) I’m going to have a go at someone with a knitting needle. Preferably one those gorgeous ebony ones. Clearly it’s a craft that never died. And it’s seeming resurgence is more about knitting practioners finding a voice, than about any sort of resurrection.
Vive le knitters.
Knitting is the new black – well here in melbourne anyway. Those needles look awesome.
Gorgeous! Thank you, for your inspiring and always beautiful site xox
I just love this- what a fantastic giveaway!
this is beautiful! and what a great giveaway <3
I’ll be in Melbourne but would love to go into the draw…
how gorgeous, has inspired me to pick up a needle or two…
What a great tent! What a great husband! What great knitting needles!
What an inspiring environment to be creative in. I have been coveting those ebony needles for some time … they are on my christmas list. Nikki Gabriel is a very clever and stylish lady and I reckon I would be as innovative with my knitting with a pair of those needles clickety-clacking in my hands!
what great encouragement for this first time mum to start
knitting some lovely winter woolies for her bubs.
Thanks for this post & links. I’ve just starting knitting this winter and need some non-Nana ideas. Lincraft books are soooo uninspiring. Cheers.
What a flash way to start learning how to knit!
Me please?
jilliaroo@gmail.com
What a fantastic giveaway and opportunity to meet Nikki Gabriel! Wish the Festival was being held in Queensland.
Awesome looking prize! Pick me.
What a lovely prize. fingers crossed for me. Love that tent. What a beautiful print and a marvellous red.
That screenprint is divine! I have just run out of friends’ new babies to knit beanies for, so unless there is some sort of biological miracle, I am in need of a new project!
if only i could jet away to sydney for a knitting workshop! a pair of those fabulous ivory needles would be perfect for the 3 skiens of kelly green wool I have set aside for a chunky cowl scarf…
that would be lovely, pass some of these cold days away knitting.
This would be just what I need to start KNITTING!
Would love one of these kits! and what a beautiful tent!?
Love NG’s work!! Fingers crossed I get picked! Her kits are divine!
so disappointed that i am not going to be in Sydney this weekend – looks like so so much fun!!!
Such a beautiful little kit! Knitting in a tent sounds like my dream afternoon, I wish wish I was in Sydney right now!
i am drooling all over myself, nikki’s work is so lovely! i will continue to admire her from the afar (california), and am hoping i win this kit! thanks for the giveaway :)
the workshops look incredible – i wish i lived in sydney! x
am thinking this would make a lovely present for witty knitter i know…thank you again for such a great giveaway.
claire
such a lovely giveaway – workshops like this actually make me want to learn to knit or try and learn to knit for again!
I love the idea of knitting big – the workshop looks like such crafty good times.
Ooh, the knitting needles are so lovely!
fantastic tent, beautiful prize, please pick me! xoxo
How gorgeous! wish I was in Sydney so i could attend
To sit and knit – what a wonderful dream
I would simply love to have this incredible giveaway so I can knit knit knit. But I am probably banned from winning because I’m related to Lucy. Damn.
Oh what fun! Melbourne too please!
A very nice package, well done Nikki!
I hope you have some lovey knit wits to join you in your custom tent.
Next year at State of Design Melbourne perhaps?
x N
Love the needles! The chunky scarf I would make with those will keep someone warm and happy.
I am so jealous of that tent. It is gorgeous. What better place to shade from the sun and be creative.
I’m just learning to knit and would just love to win the knitting kit.
evie x
(me@eviekemp.com)
oh, to be in Sydney this weekend! You lucky, lucky people – have the most inspirational time in Nikki’s fabulous tent. If I win this giveaway I shall sit in my very own tent & teach a friend to knit (but I might not let them have those sexy needles! They look divine!). Thank you Lucy & best of luck to Nikki for the weekend of events. It will be a sell out! Lx
Simply gorgeous – Nikki’s workshop AND the tent!
Hey, would be great to win these as my girl will totally dig them. Cheers
I want one of those tents for my backyard! Its Fantastic!
Absolutely stunning tent :) The kits are an Awesome giveaway.
Oh my GOODNESS! I’ve been lusting after Nikki’s needles…… lust lust lusting away!…
and now they could be MINE!!! it’s too much, I need a lay down.
I confess, I am a total knitting tragic.
There I said it.
And I would love this kit!
Please bring your gorgeous tent to Melbourne Nikki where all the serious knitting happens!
It looks portable and is high season for knitting here.
Ebony needles, too lovely…
What beautiful inspiration for some winter knitting! Hope I’m lucky . . .
I wish I was in Sydney (and without 3 kids) to escape for 3 hours!
I wonder if Nikki Gabriel will be the sweet mistress to lead me away from knitting variations on the square. Me and Jo Sharp never worked out…
I love to sew, haven’t knitted in years but I am sure my mum would appreciate it.
I would love to give screen printing a go.
thanks…
Noice ! You can never have too many tea cosies, mocassins and mittens ♥
Refreshing idea and so beautifully put together. Inspiring.
Me please!!!!
Would there be a workshop in Melbourne? That would be lovely :)
I love a nice knitting needle, these ones are very nice!
this tent is amazing, i wish i had a screenprinting husband! i wish i could join the sydneysiders in their knitting skill building, but alas, i live in the great west. instead i’ll have to construct my own knitting tent and imagine i had knitting buddies.
ps// HANDMADE EBONY NEEDLES!!!
SUCH a fantastic concept – Nikki’s construction knitting…so clever! Could definitely do with the pack to further develop my basic knitting skills – I can only knit scarves!
Love the needles – love the giveaway – always need an excuse to knit
Thanks for the site and the inspiration – Cilla
Wow just read the interview now am even more excited – got to look at more of this
Cilla
Oh man. Oh man oh man. I’ve got a feeling 208 is my lucky number. Please let it be so!
Yet another generous and exciting giveaway.
Love the tent. I want that too!
Thanks for introducing me to yet another fabulous artisan in Nikki and for that matter Anthony too.
Sandy K
bummer i can’t be in sydney this weekend. looks so lovely!
Oh my goodness! This is amazing! I love those knitting needles.
Now we just need to convince Nikki and hubby to come to Melbourne! Thankyou for introducing them. Love their stuff…..
hope to be the lucky winner!
I would love to knit pick with this beautiful equipment…!
I love Nikki’s work and would love to win one of the knitting packs.
my mum (who just checked out design files for the first time when i told her about nikki’s project and is rather intrigued!) is in need of some refreshing, contemporary knitting guidance to inspire her talents – she’s not old enough to be knitting knee rugs or crocheting tea cosies just yet!
yikes! just too awesome!!!!!!
what an amazing giveaway!! that tote bag is great.
donelleohio@gmail.com
Love Nikki Gabriel and Design Files!
Gorgeous tent design.. and it’s lovely how the knitting needles look like pencils making the act of knitting look like air doodling!
It’s moments like these that make me wish I lived in Sydney!
What a wonderful giveaway. I’ve been getting my knit on of late, also!
Thanks for posting about this designer!
awesome! i love!
I would love to win something from Down Under..especially tools that look that luxurious!
Amazing kits!!! I would love to win one. Nikki’s work is out of this world!
wow! would be lovely to knit a comfy winter something with!
Ohh i would love this!
Hi Nikki
Bring your tent and we’ll set it up at Vesta in Queenstown.
Kim
x
knit, purl, knit, knit, purl.
purlific prize from a talented purler!
Stunning giveaway, I wish I was that talented