kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Textiles
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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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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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Arts based workshops reviewed
The other day I had one of my arts based workshops reviewed. According to this small sample, I am pretty much a total boss at arts based workshops. Writing a survey, and choosing targets wisely….less so. But why the review to start with? I live in a perpetual state of maybe-write-a-grant. Retrospectively, I’ve had no overwhelmingly expensive artists’
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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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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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Autumnal bomba
Some recent ones that can be found on the streets of The Town.
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