My hands ache.
I'm making Christmas presents instead of buying this year, and I've already got a couple done. For starters, someone will be getting this bag; be grateful, and pay for my knuckle replacement surgery. I also am working on something for my best friend Jj, and some tiny things for my little cousiny people. was worried I might be going a bit overboard with the crochet, then I visited the Victoria & Albert Museum's Power of Making exhibition:
That's a bear made from crochet by Shauna Richardson, life size, with all the appropriate details to make you think its taxidermy until you're right in front of it. This caught me completely off guard, and my brain went into overdrive - what can't you crochet? I can make a whole pair of gloves in two days, what could I make in a week? A month? Needless to say I've big plans as soon as I have a proper work space.
I was pleasantly surprised to see a couple of Joep Verhoeven's lace fence panels, an artist whose work I stumbled across last year but couldn't put a name to it.
You can see the sheer scale of it here. It looks so much more delicate since its in a relatively tough, construction context. The boundaries of yarn craft are getting more and more expansive, and I want to help push them.
0 replies:
Post a Comment