kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Experiments
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Works in progress, new ideas
Works in progress I have been drawing a little bit of late, and wanted to share the skritchy-scratch biro ones. They are small-scale and I am so rusty with bone structure, so they look awkward in places too. But, it’s an encouraging start, as I haven’t created any 2D works for years. The ink layers glide
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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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Fur and leather sewing – where do I even start?
Fur and leather. I was recently passed down some items of sentimental value. There’s some kind of strange stuff; teeth, tusks, furs, leather tooling equipment, scrimshaw equipment… shells… hammers… photos…. Already sounds like an amazing contemporary art piece, or like something you’d find on Regretsy. I look at this pile of stuff, and it’s strange.
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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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Vintage craft books
Vintage craft books are great. Although, it is really difficult to find a website that will pin down the definite age of a ‘vintage’ book. I have settled on this definition which says that over 25 years old [clothing] can be considered vintage….if there’s a better one for books, I’d love to read about it,
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Pinterest was explained to me in a way I’ve understood, and now I have a presence there.
Pinterest is something I have been aware of for some time now, but have held off on joining. It’s something that several people have expressed confusion over; because apparently, my work would fit in well there….? Externally, I’ve seen it as a pastel-coloured cupcake land where inspirational quotes abound and unicorns float on heart-shaped clouds
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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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The Travelling Journal, a story about six Australian artists
The Travelling Journal was a project I collaboratively worked on with a number of interesting artist types. In no order, my partners were: Joeli Eastell Kathryn Shewring barek Cherie Strong Little Detour And it spent six to eight weeks being passed aound the Eastern coast of Australia. I got it first, my contribution is the four anatomically-themed textile panels
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