alt craft month: ravelry goodies
As part of our alt craft month, we will be posting links to cool ideas and inspiration as well as tutorials and articles. We are still taking tutorial and article ideas for the month so please email your ideas and stories to me at whipup[at]gmail.com. what is ‘alt crafting’ anyway? Making unconventional choices (materials + methods); taking different approaches to the problem, not conforming to accepted rules or standards; out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird. - Yes indeed its going to be a month of FUN!
More interesting inspiration found via ravelry.
Norah Gaughan’s ‘beet’
And more knitted veg from in stitches
February 11th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Wow! That beet is so realistic. Thanks for a great website, I really appreciate all the time you spend to show all the crafty goodness that I wouldn’t stumble across myself.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:59 am
These are just the coolest things. I love em!
February 11th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Oh, those make me want to pick up my knitting needles again! I know how to knit - learned YEARS ago - but when I learned to crochet, I stopped. However, these veggies are HARD to resist! LOVE this site! I check it daily & thank you VERY much for all the fun things you put up for your readers!
February 11th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I can’t believe how cool the beet it! Where can I get the pattern?
February 27th, 2008 at 7:32 am
[...] I’ve also been leafing through Aliza Green’s book on produce. It is not a cook book per se yet extremely helpful when planning a dish or a dinner because it lists complimentary flavors or serving suggestions. For example, in a random opening of the book, cauliflower goes well with anchovy, butter, chervil, chives, cream, curry, garlic, ginger, Gruyere cheese, lemon, mustard seed, olives, Parmesan cheese, thyme and turmeric. I started toying with the idea of knitting veggies - I’m not the only one who is inspired by produce. [...]