If you are in Canberra, come along next week to the opening of the country show – should be heaps of fun. Poster design by Ampersand Duck.
London’s 2009 Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery: The prize, now in its 9th year attracts students of embroidery, design, arts, surface textiles, costume, fibres, interiors, fashion and textiles throughout the world. This year, for the first time, the Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery also ran an open category for embroiderers from all backgrounds.
The aim of this prize is to promote the use of hand embroidered surface embellishment within fashion, costume and soft furnishing. All in the hope that contemporary design and other fresh approaches will be inspired to embrace hand embroidery, to acknowledge and value its quality and expertise. See the entries and the winners here.
Image: The Swarovski Prize Winner – Claire Goodwin from Nottingham Trent University
The intricate sewn drawings of China Marks are showing at Luise Ross Gallery, New York, from 17 September through October. This image shown here is titled ‘Heavenly creatures’ and is made with a laborious process of fusible adhesive and fabric and stitched layers. The process which China Marks uses in these intricate stitched drawings is described on her website here.
Check out more stitched portaits and scenes at Quilted Portraits & Stitched Scenes on at 360SEE gallery, Chicago during September/October.
Image caption: Alexandra Walters, Prozac, 2009, silk, cotton, and rayon floss on stretched fabric
Edda Lilja and her 52 hat project is now up to week 37 and the hats are fantastic – a little quirky and quite original. Here is her website where you can see all the hat – just a few of my faves are pictured below.
The pattern for that cute elf/fairy hat is available here for a small fee
WOWZERS. I’m filing this one under “extreme crafting”. That’s a whole lot of paper cuts waiting to happen. Link to tutorial.
illustrating stories shows us how to create a houndstooth pattern using photoshop.
I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw these boots by Emma Greenwood on meetmeatmikes – super cool – handmade boots and hand embroidered to boot!
stitch wars [here is the blog for updates] Looks like a super fun nerdy show – featuring all kinds of handmade goods inspired by Star Wars -from needle felting and crochet to handmade hats and plushies. Exhibition until August 29 at Bear and Bird c/o TATE’S Lauderhill, Florida
Images:
Luke Skywalker, Sammi Resendes
Jedi Training: Yoda, Marilyn Patrizio
Jabba the Hut: The Early Days , Kit Lane
Tauntaun and Luke, Heidi Kenney
Princess Leia and R2D2, Follow the White Rabbit
Darth Vader Whiskerbear. Phil Barbato
Evil mad scientist has done it again and developed a pattern to make these two bags the d20 is a icosahedron (composed of twenty triangular faces, with five meeting at each of the twelve vertices) lined zipper bag. The (retro-dork-chic-DIY) d12 bag is a dodecahedral (composed of twelve regular pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex). I just love when math meets craft … so very nerdy cool.
