kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Re-use
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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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Pinterest tutorial results, How To Cover Shoes
I tackled a shoe tutorial found on Pinterest a few weeks ago now. It was a tutorial on covering secondhand shoes with a new fabric to give them a new life. It is from the lovemaegan blog, direct link available here. She used a beautiful houndstooth fabric; …which I sadly did not have, but I
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Large handmade postcards, collage crafternoon
I needed large handmade postcards for a recent spree of letter writing. I enjoy sending snailmail to people. With the assistance of Muzy, I have put together a compilation (or series of) the cards I collaged together from reused file partitions and leftist newspapers. Beards, helicopters, insane horses, swingsets, prosthetics, sarcasm, thumbnail sketches, plants, phrenology,
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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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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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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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Finding out what else I can do.
A night’s folding and drawing, fooling around with ‘artsy’ shots Unofficially, I have set myself a challenge of getting out of my comfort zone this year. With uni behind me (for now) I am willing to set myself a lot more goals and due dates in relation to my art. So, as I have probably
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Put an arachnid on it.
Sometimes things are very beautiful but they are also very… not boring (never boring!), but less interesting than they could be. This post was originally titled Put a skull on it as I had initally planned to hop on board the candyskull train to Kitsch Town, but I couldn’t find any pictures of skulls that
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