Unusual materials

January Round-up: Part 1

January 10, 2012

It’s time for a January Round-up where I go through my inbox and send you links to amazing things that have been floundering in the shallows of my email archives. Here are the beauties that I have unearthed today: Joann spotted these statues at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby (Canada) today and send these photos [...]

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Hometown Pride

August 11, 2010

One of yarn bombing’s favourite correspondents (hi Mom!) recently sent me some images of tags in the Comox Valley, my hometown. Pink tree warmer in front of the Courtenay Library on 6th Street, Courtenay. The tag has a little keychain attached to it which says ‘to have joy one must share it open handed’ Frilly [...]

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Water and Lace

June 28, 2010

In the tradition of Janet Morton’s Linden in Lace Tree, artist Penelope Durston, of Fitzroy, Australia creates these beautiful installation pieces using doilies: She says “I did a bit of ‘doily-ing’ whilst I was down in Tasmania  last August. Tasmania has incredibly very beautiful wilderness areas and (I) went down with the plan of taking [...]

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identity school

August 4, 2009

Images courtesy of identity school Jessica Glesby is the creator of the knit graffiti classroom project identity school. With identity school, Jessica has taught the skills of knit graffiti to grade 9-12 classes at University Hill Secondary in Vancouver, Canada. A graduate of Emily Carr University in Bachelor of Media Arts, Jessica has dabbled in [...]

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Cone Cozies in the Wilderness

June 21, 2009

Linda M. Cunningham, handmade book artist and installation artist from Calgary, Alberta, has been working on a series of knitted pinecone cozies. She says: Choosing to pursue dual careers as both a writer and an artist has allowed me to engage in a long-time obsession with the texture of words and fibres, and to develop [...]

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Another Way To Do It

April 20, 2009

I just found these articles about a beautiful installation piece in Oakand, made by university student Hye Jin Lee. You can see a large photo of it here. Formed by weaving yarn into chainlink fences, the bold colours and geometric patterns used are reminiscent of quilt blocks and children’s crafts. With each motif standing several [...]

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Interview with Deeply Superficial People

January 26, 2009

From the very first time I peeked at their blog, Deeply Superficial People inspired me. A marriage of knit graffiti and other textiles, stitching vigilantes SewJaBoy and Owl_or_Nothing’s unique pieces have been spotted around San Francisco and Sacramento. From tags shaped like boxing gloves and bear traps, to flags placed in trees to celebrate the [...]

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Random rainy day update

November 29, 2008

Image courtesy of ArtYarn I’ve been cooped up in the house over the last week. Vancouver has hit monsoon season and predictably, I came down with the flu. While watching an unreasonable amount of television during sick days, I began to knit Wendy Bernard’s Le Slouch which I found via the ever-stylish Jenny Gordon. I [...]

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