Archive for the ‘Not Just Knitting’ Category

Crochet symbol charting

Saturday, February 2nd, 2013

using AI CS3 series.

How to bake a fiber cake

Friday, January 11th, 2013

Marlon Ber black forest cake.

Cameron Russell on TED

Saturday, December 22nd, 2012

Cameron Russell “has spent the last decade posing as a supermodel. Occasionally she writes about grassroots public art and political power, and experiments with making art for the internet and the street. She is the director of The Big Bad Lab which creates participatory art and media platforms dedicated to including people in radical demonstrations of positive social change.” “This talk that honestly explores privilege, insecurity, and perception in one of the world’s most glamorous and least understood industries.”

Pantone color forecast

Friday, December 21st, 2012

Color of the year for 2013

TED talks again

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

Dan Phillips: creative houses from reclaimed stuff.Vik Muniz on creativity, art with wire, sugar, chocolate, string.

Pattern bank

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

Inspiration for print, pattern, graphics, fashion trends and more: website, pinboards.

Manipulating ladders or long loops

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

An idea for manipulation of such “spaces” whether in knitting or in the recently popular chain/ extended trebles fabrics may be found in any leno lace reference (weaving technique), one such is the article by Robin Spady. A PDF by Eleanor Best offers many more ideas.

Knit/crochet meet music video

Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Polarity song

An installation comes to life

Friday, September 21st, 2012

Multi-media artist Leslie Pearson creates a new installation. “This piece consists of several components including wet and needle felted wool (acid dyed), and digitally printed, machine stitched sheer fabric.”

Nylon monofilament artistry

Monday, September 17th, 2012

The work of Nora Fok.