I like these, but for me, on the wrist. Link.
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May 2009
SEWN is new and innovative online quilting and sewing community for all lovers of fabric crafts. To celebrate the launch there is a giveaway [via handmaiden]
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To celebrate the final week of Soft sculpture, the National Gallery of Australia will be holding Knitta Please, a festival of events from 5 to 12 July. Founded in 2005, Knitta Please is a tag crew of knitters who turned their frustration with their half-finished knitting projects into a phenomenon sweeping across the world.
There will be Yarn-bombing and guerrilla knitting in the Sculpture Garden: Monday 6 July
Stitching up the NGA: Tuesday 7 July to Sunday 12 July – watch the Gallery be transformed with knitting. Held over four days, Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta Please, and Sydney artist Denise Litchfield transform the front entrance and foyer of the Gallery. Knitters are invited to help create squares of knitting for the coverings.
Stitch ’n’ bitch: Wednesday 8 July – this event will bring like-minded knitters for a relaxed evening of clicking and conversation.
Children’s knitting workshop (ages 5+) Thursday 9 July – Children are invited to attend a finger-knitting workshop taught by Knitta Please founder Magda Sayeg.
knitting festival in Canberra information
Image: Jenny CHRISTMANN, 20 woollen books 1977-78, wool and acrylic, not signed. not dated
overall variable 140.4 (h) x 24.4 (w) x 54.6 (d) cm
Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant 1982. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, NGA 1983.2822.1-21, © G.S. Christmann
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Soft Sculpture is showing at the National Gallery of Australia until 12 July. Soft sculpture surveys the impact of unconventional materials on three-dimensional art practice over the last five decades
One of the foremost proponents of Pop art, Claes Oldenburg is credited as the creator of soft sculpture. Throughout the 1960s, he made oversized hamburgers and pieces of cake in vinyl stuffed with kapok, and miniature, collapsible canvas objects such as drum sets, which offer wry commentary on the dominance of fast food and mass culture.
Image captions:
Lucas SAMARAS, Box no. 85 1973, pins and stones on cardboard, 27.1 x 44.8 x 28.6 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 1981. © Lucas Samaras, Courtesy Pace Wildenstein
Claes OLDENBURG, Soft alphabet 1978, wood, cloth, sand, stencil 16/16, edition of 16 plus 11 proofs
signed, in black pen “Oldenburg” [verso of box] box (closed) 74.2 (h) x 56.4 (w) x 7.2 (d) cm. Purchased 1982
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra NGA 1982.1270.1-43 © Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen
Kathy TEMIN, Duck-rabbit problem 1991, synthetic fur on composition board, cotton, dacron, polystyrene, wire and enamel paint. 52.5 x 187.8 x 124.0 cm installation variable. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of the Rudy Komon Fund, Governor, 1998. Image courtesy of the artist
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Lace Top by Erika Knight - free pattern from potter craft from the book Glamour Knits
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thank you meg for pointing out this lovely shirred sunny dress from house on hill road.
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Stitched on horse hair, paper and found fabrics, Hand Crafted Landscape is a patchwork of rural romances. Opening Saturday 23 May 3pm until the 23 of June 2009 at Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria.
Images: Tamara Marwood, Quilt Work (detail), 2008, horse hair, cotton and cardboard. From Handcrafted landscape at Ararat Regional Art Gallery, from 21 May to 21 June. www.tamaramarwood.com
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