kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Rugging
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A tiny hot pink shag coat
Number three in the three part series on the hot pink shaggy jacket, handmade microfashion at it’s finest. I call this model the Fluffy Pink Duckling, hooray!
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Up all night shagging
Part two of a three-part series on making a hot pink shag micro jacket for a fashion-forward toddler. Includes a brief how-to video.
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Soft sculptural crocheting
Recent crochet; watermelons, icecreams, anatomy art, fungi and rugmaking
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Rugging in Portugal
Making rag rugs on the road again Another day, another rag rug, or so the saying goes! Just another quick, small project on the road to replace an older green-and-yellow rug that has seen better days. The rug needs to fit in an odd section of the van…a T-shaped section of the floor leading from
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Finishing off crocheted bathmat
Adding the finishing touches to a crocheted rug! Made from reused tshirts while travelling in Spain.
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What I have been doing, January 2014
What have I been doing? As an artist, nothing of great interest. No big news on the frontier of soft sculptural textiles for me. I recently made a rug out of the tshirt material I cut up, but it ended up being a circle shape, so, nothing that was noteworthy in its difficulty. I had a little
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Making artworks and being creative without a studio
Making artworks, being creative without a studio …can be difficult. And I won’t lie, I am at complete odds with myself a lot of the time since I have started traveling. Where are my pencils, where are my bolts of cloth and bags of wool and vast array of needles, hooks, pins and embroidery hoops? What if
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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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First rugging workshop
….went well. Nine people learned a new skill, and I have some more information about running a workshop that will ensure things go more smoothly next time (float!). Bought a receipt book and worked out how to use that too. Especially not looking at the camera here… The last time I was in a classroom situation
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Exhibition at Atelier gallery
So, I have works at the Atelier Unique Fine Art gallery. There’s an open day on this Sunday from 12pm-2pm and I would love to see people there, to talk about textiles and what not. There’s so much on this weekend! I will be swinging by there in between the Have a Go festival at the
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