kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Crochet & Knitting
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Artist images – professionally taken artwork photo gallery
Artist images I have had taken. Not many words today. These are beautiful. Thanks to the USQ Photography team for their amazing images over the last few years, as well as Nerida Tupas.
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Crocheting recently
Crocheting recently has been a hit and miss deal. I’m in the preparation stage, and I’m still hitting my stride working out these floral details. I am having a lot of fun with the crocheting and general arts and craft book research. There’s also a lot of distractions with retail work and the artist pursuits
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Crocheted gloves: Broomstick lace stitch and glove making
Crocheted gloves, making something with broomstick lace stitch. While filling out paperwork and following due dates for various things on my artist schedule, there’s been some time for experimentation and learning new things, fortunately. One of those things has been broomstick lace stitch. This was via a really clear tutorial from nastazia.com. I have linked
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Clothing alterations; adding to a slip to make it correctly fit
So, another thing that I tried out in January was learning a new stitch, and using it on a boob-tube style slip that I purchased that just wouldn’t stay up (but that’s why it’s called a slip, right? Hur hur). First things, the new stitch: The stitch is commonly known as broomstick lace crochet, and
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Making a dress, the January project
Making a dress Making a dress is complicated. There’s all sorts of hidden layers to the process that you need to research first, or be mentored by another who’s versed in the art. I have inches in the bookshelf dedicated to the process, and I completely disregarded them as I went about created a dress
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Hello! Back again in the New Year…a bit later than expected
Hello! New Year, new blog space and look, although it’s taken me until the end of the month to get my act in gear. Interestingly, I have a spent a majority of January mentally, emotionally and physically shaking off the detritus of 2012. Not to sound pessimistic; but, from my emotional perspective, for the most
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Woollenings about The Town
Preparations in the drawer at theGRID Here’s a brief retrospect on my activities about The Town in the last six months or so. I would have put them out before, and should have, but making works is a lot more fun then putting thoughts and feelings into words and visual aids. And remembering to take
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Creative Tanks
In last week’s post I briefly mentioned the Creative Tanks event that was occurring for the Carnival of Flowers this month. I was also involved in the Creative Tanks event last year. It’s strangely nostaglic to be completing the same event, thinking about where I was twelve months ago. For 2011, I certainly wasn’t in
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theWORK
With the dust of the residency beginning to settle and the works in a place of pride in the MARS gallery of theGRID, life is returning to normal. I have time to reflect, and post a behind-the-scenes montage of the making of Humine Spongiform II – Advancement. Is montage even the right word
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