A stitch in time: The remarkable 'knitting clock' that creates 6ft long scarf by stitching together a loop of thread every 30 minutes for a YEAR

A year goes by ever so quickly, but with this clock you will at least be warm by the end of it.

The 365 day 'knitting clock' uses nearly 1,500ft of yarn to show the passing of time and will leave you with a 6ft7in scarf by the end of December.



The 24-hour clock created by designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen knits one stitch every half an hour, adding one new row to the scarf every day, to show the physical representation of time.

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In the knit of time: Siren Elise Wilhelmsen's clock knits 24 hours a day for a whole year helping you tell time - and keep warm Miss Wilhelmsen, from Bergen in Norway, created the 365 day knitting clock called 'Developing Time - Time Developing' as her final work for her diploma, the project she calls ‘her big breakthrough’. RELATED ARTICLES Previous

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Next A cuppa and a charge: The wood powered stove that can... Scientists discover how to make time pass faster (or slower) Share this article Share ‘The diploma was called “Everything Counts” so I started with the numbers and ended up with a clock’, the 30-year-old designer told museum NormannCopenhagen in an interview. ‘It is a very poetic approach. What I wanted was to show the nature of time in a different way.’ ‘It's showing the time at the present, but is also showing the time that has been and showing the time that is coming.’

Round the clock: The clock tells the time over 24 hours with each stitch representing half-an-hour, producing one row every day

Yarn of time: This picture shows the clock over the course of a year, starting with the threading and the scarf being knitted, until finally the thread runs out after exactly 365 days Miss Wilhelmsen moved from Norway to Berlin at the age of 20 to study art and design, and graduated from the Berlin University of Art in 2010. The same year her clock won the Time to Design price, after which she was praised all over the world for her innovation.

Since winning the coveted award she splits her time between her hometown and Germany, where she has a studio. She say her designs must have a function and aims to create functional and sustainable projects with personality and humour.



Then and now: The clock shows the time in the present but also the time that has passed - the scarf - and the time which will come - the remaining yarn

Warm memories: The final result is a 6ft 6.7in (2 meters) scarf to remind you of the year that has passed 'One of the most important criteria is that I have not seen a design before’, she told Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. 'For me to take it further it has to trigger something in me. I often start projects not knowing if they are going to work or not. Some I have to abandon, they get too complicated. 'I find design interesting when it is risky and challenging. To me design is science.’ Miss Wilhelmsen has sent one of the 'knitting clock' prototypes to Japan in the hopes of having it mass produced and dreams of working with Scandinavian furniture giant IKEA .

She has made eight standing ‘grandfather’ versions of the clock which she is selling for £2,200.

Passing time: The 365 clock earned the Norwegian artist the 2010 Time to Design award

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