Maker Faire 2011

Maker Faire at NYSCI.  As Librarian here and a Maker, I was busy all weekend.  
Here I am set up with my Earth crochet project.  Eventually it will be part of a bigger piece: EARTH.AIR.FIRE.WATER!  Made six purple mushrooms, attached to a brown circle to show a Fairy Ring.  

Many fiber fans stopped by to enjoy my work and dig the security gate sweaters 
that remain from last year.

Anna returned this year as a Maker in the Library.
She generously made a gift of her new book, Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi, to our library.  Always a pleasure to share the day with, Anna is a talented artist and a really nice woman.

Dads and sons sewing!  Making beastie dolls.  Thought this was adorable. 

Not as many fiber artists this year as last year and that was disappointing.  I dig needle work more than circuits!  Met Sonya from San Francisco.  She does some lovely inventive knitting.

Best T Shirt Award to Jennifer Silverman: 

If I had a hammer I'd Smash Patriarchy.  

RIGHT ON!

Some other fiber types I stumbled across in the Craft area: 
weave a bracelet and Solar Sewing.

Best Patch Award.  Wearer and mushroom lover told me she found this in a box of electronic wire patches.  What luck!

PRETTY!   Conductive Thread.  She gave me some with a battery holder and other equipment.

Grrrr... this is what I felt like after two full days at Maker Faire.

Shelby Arnold, Maker and Pop Up artist, works with Robert Sabuda.  She returned this year to host another Pop-Up card workshop in the library.  Great teacher, fine artist, lovely woman.

Earth

My current big project is a wall hanging or blanket
incorporating the four elements:
EARTH AIR FIRE WATER.

Started working on Earth up here in the Adirondacks.
Plenty of inspiration.

Fungus and timber inspire circles.

Browns and greens from the forest appear in color schemes for afghan squares.

More to come. Crocheted purple, white or brown mushrooms will grow out of some of these squares.

Creating a variety of squares and will improvise on the arrangements.

Need to use white for birch bark. And gray for rocks. Lots of rocks in the North Country.

Water Bottle Cozies

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Potholders

More yarn bombing in Riverhead NY

My sister's yarn bomb creations at the beach, on Long Island Sound.

Gorgeous work, sis!

At the Buffalo farm. Moo!

International Yarn Bombing Day - June 11th 2011

This tree is outside my house. When it is sunny tomorrow, I'll take more photographs!

Crocheted bead white necklace

Crocheted bead red necklace

This is water, H2O... two molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen.
These plastic beads are part of an exhibit at the NY Hall of Science, where I work.

Borrowed 5 oxygen molecules and
crocheted red thread on top of them and came up with this necklace.

This was inspired by the book, Crochet Jewelry,
by Waejong Kim and Anna Pulvermakher.

Cuddly COzy Lamp post

Yarn bomb, yarn bombing, aka crochet graffiti in Riverhead at the home of my imaginative sister!

more on International Yarn Bombing Day

http://iybd.blogspot.com/

Yarn bomber, OLEK, has a show downtown

Olek, an insatiable crocheter makes sweaters for bikes, teapots and entire apartments.

Artist Agata Oleksiak (Olek) says she often spends nights at Christopher Henry Gallery—where her crocheted apartment is currently installed—just to sleep in her own bed.

We will go down on Mother's Day to take a look.