Pushing the Boundaries of Embroidery

This embroidered bucket is by 
Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė.
More of her work here.


More from Meredith Woulnough here.

Even more artists here.

Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Knitted Pavillion. Can be used outdoors to absorb light from the sun during the day and release it at night.

Miracle Chips by Michael Anastassiades.

These "thin marble discs that successively curl in an abstract study of materiality."

A study in materiality?  What isn't a study in materiality?

Nice scarf on a nice man

"Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren't,"

Exhibit at the Grolier Library

New baby arrives

For Omer Rubin, my nephew's Israeli daughter.
Pattern: from the tv show, CALL THE MIDWIFE.
Panda: a good try but not good enough to send.

Potholders

2016 gift for a good cook.

THESE TEXTILES TELL A CULTURAL HISTORY

"MANDELA MANDALA"

Title credit: HRG.

"African textiles are distinctive for their vibrant colors, bold patterns, and batik dyes that give the fabric a unique crackled texture. But I had no idea that some of the trendiest of these prints are actually designed and produced in the Netherlands by a company called Vlisco."

More here.

This pattern featuring iPods is another, more recent example of a print that incorporates technology and modern life while maintaining Vlico's classic batik style. This pattern is popular in Nigeria. 

by Hillary Fayle. More here.

Textile Exhibit at the Met

In October, I joined this Metropolitan Museum employee for lunch and a look at this interdisciplinary exhibition:

“Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620” 

The exhibition brings together a combination of printed pattern books, drawings, textile samples, costumes, paintings, and various other works of art to evoke the colorful world in which the Renaissance textile pattern books first emerged and functioned.

Charity knitting

Once a month I visit the store, Knitty City, and join the group BIG APPLE KNITS. This is their logo.



We crochet and knit for charity and it is great fun.  Belonging to the group is a young woman I knew as a student at PS 87, her mother ... and Marjory, who I worked with at A&E back in the 1980s!

Some stuff I made for a baby shelter:

Brooklyn Fiber Festival

Weather wise its such a lovely day.  Took an Autumn trip out to Brooklyn to see pretty colors and change my latitude and attitude.

“Neofunky crochet fine textile art“

Crochet artist Xenobia Bailey.  More here.

Bunny Red Ears

Fabric from Hannah's old flannel nightie 

Amigurumi created at Cranberry Lake

To donate to needy children via the Big Apple Knits group that meets in Knitty City every month.

Post script in December 2015 - Gave Tseitl, the turtle, to Hannah's grandfather as he was recovering from open heart surgery in the hospital.

Shawl!

Appealing image

Avery's doll

Greenport visit with Cara and Anders and their cheerful little dog, Avery.

One always brings a present when invited to dinner.

The doll's nose is a bell.

Picture from the pattern instructions:

First made such a gift back in 2009 for Ophelia.

R.I.P.

The Kuna: the endangered last tribe of the Caribbean

From the Guardian Newspaper:
Photographer Eric Lafforgue documents the island tribe, whose existence is threatened by rising sea levels. The Kuna live on the San Blas islands off the coast of Panama.There are roughly 50,000 Kuna, who are one of the largest remaining indigenous South American tribes. More here.

Kuna women make and wear long strings of beads 

which they wrap around their wrists and ankles

The traditional beaded leg ornaments are made in beautiful geometric patterns

The colourful molas are also sold as decorative pieces