kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Experiments
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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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Beanbag bomba
Paper storage facilities also work for textiles! Something I have started to run with recently is freeform crochet. I haven’t done much research into freeform crocheting artists yet, but what I have seen I have really liked. I wouldn’t say you were making it up as you go along but… I think that
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All around The Town.
Some recent woolenings: Out of season magnolias – catch them while they last Experimental cuff – disappeared within a week An old rainbow from when I hadn’t properly figured out tension Swallows Liked the cuff so much I went back for more Another angle Cannot get enough of this one
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The travelling book collective
A couple of months ago I signed on to made. creative space’s Journal Project and have been lucky enough to convince three other artists to collaborate with me on this via the post. Tonight, I’ve finished my section of the book and over the weekend I will be bundling it up with some bits and pieces and sending
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What’s this?
NeedlesHooksPins the blog had a birthday over the weekend. Unfortunately, it appears I celebrate these milestones like I celebrate my own: remember a few days before, run out of time, do nothing until well after the fact. Hopefully this ‘celebration’ of sorts will occur during this week. Until then, I’ve been taking a break from
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Adventures in Papergirl: A discovery of B-sides
Somewhere in the beginning of February, made. Creative Space [sic] put out a call-out for yet another fantastic project (and believe me, there are several). It was Papergirl! And I was intrigued by the concept of exhibition + free and randomised distribution of artworks + bicycles. At the end of February, I hadn’t gotten many works out for
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Another experiment.
Two weeks ago, I hosted a pincushion making workshop for Toowoomba Brown Owls. Everyone was successful in creating their own pincushion; Thanks Melita, for your encouraging words of support. I still have a lot of left over materials for the kits, and have made extra ones up. We have spiralling in clockwise from the left: embroidery
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Crafternoon Feb 11th; Lantern decoupage
The very cool and switched on Alison Mooney from MARS invited me to go dumpster diving recently. Look what I found! Today I do something new. Just what I’ve always wanted, one of those things. But in decoupage. So, I went to some sites to find out how to decoupage. Because there’s nothing I like better
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Worlds colliding
So, it was probably bound to happen. I like tying knots, and fibres, and string, and rope is just pretty much big string, right? And, a lot of the knots are like macrame knots, right? And I don’t create in a vacuum and I am not an island… I just wish my torso wasn’t so
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