kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Tag: textiles
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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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Artist photos, professionally photographed artwork pt. 3 – Fairy-ring 1, 2 & 3
Fairy-ring series image compilation I have previously posted other compilations of my professionally photographed works, and this next one is about a series of works I completed over 2010-2012, the Fairy-ring series. If you’re interested in the ‘hows’ behind the process of creating a work like this; I wrote about making Fairy-ring 2 as I was
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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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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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More clothing repair while travelling
Repairing clothes during travel
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A Fair Isle crochet hat in nine colours
I have been crocheting a hat in Fair Isle stitch using nine colours. Here are some work-in-progress shots.
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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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