love this tutorial for thread sketching with your sewing machine - by clutter punk

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.

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

Neta has been making babies – sock babies that is – check out the sock family – so colourful and so fantastic.

follow this tutorial for instructions on how to make your very own cassette tape illustrations.

I love this work by Dominican Republic artist natalia ortega gamez, [seen on design*sponge]. Local materials with a real natural feel. These bamboo stitched platters are amazing and I love the stoneware bowls with crochet covers – wonderful.

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Plush you: Fiber Arctic opened 12 June, Schmancy’s Arctic fiber artists – with an environmental theme – fiber and plush artists (using the delicate art of embroidery and needle felting) look at the effects waste in our society has had on the Arctic.

Artists include Jenny Hart, Vivienne Strauss, Coco Howard, Moxie, Heidi Kenney, Nicole Licht, and Becky Stern – and more [images from Nicole Licht (right) and Heidi Kenney (left)]

Jolis Paons made this dress using phonebook paper – pleated, stuck, sewed, and glued – all by hand. [more images here] [via ullabenulla]

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