kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Tag: crafternoons
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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 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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Ten thousand hours of crochet
Have I done 10,000 hours of crochet? I looked up some stats and roughly worked it out.
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Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This contribution for ABC Open
Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This Vintage Green Dress ABC Open is asking for contributions for the series Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This. It was so difficult to choose any one particular thing; I went with a dress that is now no longer with me. My most memorable experience wearing it was when this picture was
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Wearable art works in progress, Creative Tanks update.
Wearable art works, Creative Tanks meetings this week… …and I feel so alive! So, Creative Tanks will be in it’s third year for the 2013 Carnival of Flowers festival in Toowoomba. It will also be my third year in participating in the Creative Tanks project for the CoF fortnight. As soon as I saw the
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Crochet flowers, crochet vines, assorted WIPs compilation
The phrase “when all is said and done, more is said than done” in reference to Pinterest had been haunting me. I love practicality. For the right people, it is much more than a collection of pretty pictures of cakes, nurseries and wedding dresses. The following collection of images are from a range of
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Amigurumi and Fair Isle crochet – the latest ideas
Amigurumi and Fair Isle crocheting have been two crochet techniques I have enjoyed working on for about the last month. I made a 3-dimensional squid in a hat (with a moustache); It reminds me of Thomson and Thompson. Except there’s only one squid, so…..just Thomson then. Then I properly learned the technique for Fair Isle
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Pinterest tutorial results, How To Cover Shoes
I tackled a shoe tutorial found on Pinterest a few weeks ago now. It was a tutorial on covering secondhand shoes with a new fabric to give them a new life. It is from the lovemaegan blog, direct link available here. She used a beautiful houndstooth fabric; …which I sadly did not have, but I
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