kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Works in progress
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Adrawingaday, number four
Mandalas, art therapy, thinking about Carl Jung and hairy nude women.
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Adrawingaday sketches, number three
A collection of #adrawingaday sketches
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Sketches from the #adrawingaday project (round 2)
A drawing a day is progressing well. Still drawing on sticker blanks for #adrawingaday, a regular and simple project for sharpening drawing skills and also, unwinding at the end of the day. While I can’t noticeably see an improvement, hopefully I will be able to look back on this documentation and see it in the fullness of time.
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Small drawings, Art Noveau
Thumb nail drawings inspired by recent reading about other artists.
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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, 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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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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