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Archive for the ‘Not Just Knitting’ Category
Crochet symbol charting
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013How to bake a fiber cake
Friday, January 11th, 2013Marlon Ber black forest cake.
Cameron Russell on TED
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012Cameron 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, 2012Color of the year for 2013
TED talks again
Sunday, November 18th, 2012Dan Phillips: creative houses from reclaimed stuff.Vik Muniz on creativity, art with wire, sugar, chocolate, string.
Pattern bank
Thursday, October 18th, 2012Manipulating ladders or long loops
Saturday, October 13th, 2012An 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, 2012An installation comes to life
Friday, September 21st, 2012Multi-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, 2012The work of Nora Fok.