Category: Crochet & Knitting

  • Creative Tanks in 2013, by Kelly-Marie McEwan

    Creative Tanks in 2013, by Kelly-Marie McEwan

    Creative Tanks in 2013 Creative Tanks in 2013 was my last year to be a part of the event. As you may know from following my blog, I am moving away from the town to pursue…something….somewhere. If you didn’t know, I am leaving Australia in less than a month to move overseas. So, here are

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  • Kelly-Marie McEwan and Matt Collins, Brief Encounters Empire Theatre Toowoomba

    Kelly-Marie McEwan and Matt Collins, Brief Encounters Empire Theatre Toowoomba

    Kelly-Marie McEwan and Matt Collins in Brief Encounters This is another in my series about the Brief Encounters performance that was at the Empire Theatre on Saturday, 24th August. Photos by Rory Adams. You can find the rest of the performance’s images here.

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  • Short film ‘Toy Shelf’ for Brief Encounters Toowoomba

    Short film for Brief Encounters Toowoomba, called ‘Toy Shelf’ This short film is strange without context, so let me set you up a little; it plays at the start of our show, then the stage lights up and it is a life sized version of a work bench. There are novelty oversized erasers, needles, pincushions,

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  • Wearable art works in progress, Creative Tanks update.

    Wearable art works in progress, Creative Tanks update.

    Wearable art works, Creative Tanks meetings this week… …and I feel so alive! So, Creative Tanks will be in it’s third year for the 2013 Carnival of Flowers festival in Toowoomba. It will also be my third year in participating in the Creative Tanks project for the CoF fortnight. As soon as I saw the

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  • Teasing the Domestic, travelling art exhibitions in 2013

    Teasing the Domestic, travelling art exhibitions in 2013

    Teasing the Domestic all over Queensland Getting together various CVs for The Big Trip, which has caused me to pause and note some of the news articles and galleries my works have been mentioned in, that I may have missed over the last twelve months. Two in particular caught my eye; a May announcement of

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  • Great news concerning the upcoming Creative Tanks show

    So, I have heard a reply on my application to Creative Tanks 2013. Wheeeee! This is great. It means I will be busy, which is nice because that is a favorite way to be.  

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  • Brief Encounters Australia – Creative Arts fusion in Toowoomba, Queensland

    The Brief Encounters project – in Australia! Very pleased to announce I’ve been invited to participate in the Brief Encounters project. It has been running in Vancover since 2005, started up by some interesting folks called the Tomorrow Collective. I’ll be working on this project with Matt Collins,  co-creator of other projects such as The

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  • Crochet flowers, crochet vines, assorted WIPs compilation

      The phrase “when all is said and done, more is said than done” in reference to Pinterest had been haunting me. I love practicality. For the right people, it is much more than a collection of pretty pictures of cakes, nurseries and wedding dresses. The following collection of images are from a range of

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  • Amigurumi and Fair Isle crochet – the latest ideas

    Amigurumi and Fair Isle crocheting have been two crochet techniques I have enjoyed working on for about the last month. I made a 3-dimensional squid in a hat (with a moustache); It reminds me of Thomson and Thompson. Except there’s only one squid, so…..just Thomson then. Then I properly learned the technique for Fair Isle

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  • Artist photos – professionally taken artwork gallery part two

    Artist photos – professionally taken artwork gallery part two

    Artist photos from further back in the past – 2009-2011. University assessment pieces, as well as my first year practicing outside the tertiary system. Stained slip silouette wall painting, 2009 I would like to thank every photographer that has recorded my works’ images for posterity (mainly the amazingly friendly, genuinely interested and always professional members

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