kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Tag: Creative Reuse
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Crop Top Triptych
I have been busy over winter and early spring on some fabulous blue and yellow shaggy crop tops!
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Turquoise chokers and magic mushroom pendants
Taking broken turquoise rings and amigurumi magic mushrooms and turning them into wearable art choker necklaces
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Rugging in Portugal
Making rag rugs on the road again Another day, another rag rug, or so the saying goes! Just another quick, small project on the road to replace an older green-and-yellow rug that has seen better days. The rug needs to fit in an odd section of the van…a T-shaped section of the floor leading from
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Finishing off crocheted bathmat
Adding the finishing touches to a crocheted rug! Made from reused tshirts while travelling in Spain.
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A fast crochet rug using t-shirt fabrics
Crocheting a new bathmat from old recycled clothes. Galah colours. Info on how to piece crochet circles to create a rug that lies flat.
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Beginner’s Land Art; we built a pathway
Collaborative stair building from recycled roof tiles, wall cement and slate flooring. In beautiful Olabe, Basque Country.
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Adrawingaday, number five
Another collection of sketches, stickers and B-sides from drawing one picture every day, Tentacle-ed women, haunted trees, vanitas and pointillism.
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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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First rugging workshop
….went well. Nine people learned a new skill, and I have some more information about running a workshop that will ensure things go more smoothly next time (float!). Bought a receipt book and worked out how to use that too. Especially not looking at the camera here… The last time I was in a classroom situation
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