kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Travelling
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Day of the Dead in a van in the UK
Travelling has been bittersweet. You have to be in certain places to experience certain things; new people, culture, architecture. Lifelong friends and deep kin connections in one hemisphere, and yourself, located in the other. I have found it can be easy to feel isolated, even in a full house or the crowded streets of a
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A pink ink sketch self portrait
Self portrait sketch upload app trial
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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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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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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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Making crocheted earmuffs for winter, Part Three
Making crochet earmuffs for the winter chill Welcome to Part Three of my crochet earmuff tutorial! In Part One, I wrote about creating the crochet body, which the crochet petals are worked onto. In Part Two, I discussed how to go about making those petals. Part Three is about bringing it all together, to create
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Making earmuffs using crochet, Part Two
Making crochet earmuffs how-to, Part Two To save my sanity (pattern writing gets very tedious) I have broken up this post into three parts. Part One (making earmuffs for the winter chill) which includes the ingredients, can be found by following this link. The stitch list Chain stitch (ch) Slip stitch (sl st) Single crochet (sc) Single
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Making earmuffs for the winter chill, Part One
Making earmuffs to keep the cold out of my head I don’t know how everyone else does it in the northern hemisphere in winter. I swear, the cold blows straight into the part of my brain that gets a brain-freeze, and shortly after, I develop a headache. So I made a pair off earmuffs this
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Blanket stitch shawl, simple reuse design tutorial
I made a woollen shawl from a blanket, here is the DIY tutorial for how to make your own.
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Clothing alterations by Kelly-Marie
Clothing alterations by a crocheter
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