kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Textiles
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How to piece together granny triangles
Putting together a series of crocheted triangles for a new pillowcase.
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How to design your own granny square pillowcase
Designing a geometric treble stitch granny square pillow case. Uses a basic elmer square pattern.
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Winter crocheting 2015
Crochet projects completed over the winter. Blankets, pillow cases and jewellery.
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Sewing a faux fur muff tutorial
Sewing a faux fur muff, simple to follow tutorial Found a great tutorial for sewing a faux fur muff via Pinterest. You can find the link here at Ange Marsden’s Creative You! Here is a work in progress and a finished result: And the tutorial – simple, succinct and totally effective:
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Hacky sack crochet spree
Hacky sack crochet Spring has sprung in Bath, and things are going well. After getting over [more] colds, I am enjoying the flowers, freaking out over the size of bumblebees, and crocheting hacky sacks. Actually, that’s a gross simplification of what I have been up to. But while I settle in and my artistic joie de vivre
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Crochet leather sole soft boots, crocodile stitch tops
Crochet leather sole soft boots I have recently completed a pair of crocheted, leather soled soft boots to wear around the house. I created a pattern for them as I was working, and there is definitely quite a lot of tweaks to happen before I will be happy posting it. One of the main things
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Nooooo! A very painful thing just happened
Noooooo! A very painful thing happened to me the other day… My thumbnail just snapped right off. I use that thumb so much! Sewing has ground to a halt (sadly, I am only proficient in hand sewing).
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What I have been doing, February 2014
What have I been up to of late? As an artist; I have finally sourced something I have been wanting for a little bit of time now: So, a small win there. I have a plan for a project; hopefully it will go well. Wish me luck! As a person; so many different things… I moved
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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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