kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Tag: handmade
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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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Crocodile stitch collar pattern (rough)
Crochet pattern, rough draft pattern for the crocodile stitch collar I have been working on.
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Crocheted crocodile stitch (alligator stitch, pineapple stitch) collar complete
Rainbow crocodile stitch crochet collar completed photo compilation
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Crocheted crocodile stitch (alligator stitch, pineapple stitch) collar
Crocheting a collar for winter, Crocodile stitch collar. Work in progress shots.
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Does art matter? Artists say, yes.
Does Art Matter? …Is the question Benjamin Tupas, a producer for ABC Open posited to artists recently about the creation of art in Toowoomba in the article Art Matters. I was one of the artists, and I was quoted! The article was in reference to two events that were happening in Toowoomba over the weekend.
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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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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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