Spinning!

 I confess: my latest addiction is spinning. Be it traditionally with wool or with fabric leftovers. Fabric stripes and a whatsoever cone yarn make an absolutely gorgeous designer yarn. Good to upcycle some worn out clothes!

Spinning with wool is much more challenging, but I still like my first handspun yarn. So much that I crocheted it into a cap with ... uhm, a certain character... ;-)

Summer feeling!

A princess teaparty! I just had to share these heartwarming pics from Teaprincess from the other hemisphere. A lot of inspiration and dreaming for rainy winter days in this part of the world.
Happy 2012 to all my dear readers!

Picture credits here.

Finished! Freeform Crochet Handbag

 Finally! It took me ages but now it's finished :-) I tried to incorporate a colour range between pink, lilac and orange to catch the various tonalities of sunlight all over the day. Then the freeform crochet pieces were attatched to an already existing handbag with many practical pockets.

And here are a few details.

Colour Palette for Freeform Project

It is so rainy these days and so I felt like mixing very bright colours ... psychedelic colours ... for my next freeform crochet project. Because of the flamboyant nature of the material I think the patterns should be as simple as possible and mostly flat. We will see how it turns out.
Here are the first pieces:

The Art of Recycling: Evelyn Roth

Since I discovered how many ways there are to recycle and upcycle any kind of fabric and a lot more stuff which is commonly regarded as trash I have started to collect a lot of things, mostly textiles and I enjoy turning them into pieces of Wearable Art or any kind of useful thing. I thought initially this was a quite recent phenomenon born out of a new awareness of the absurdity of consumerism, but of course there is nothing new under the sun if you look at the work of Evelyn Roth in the seventies. She has published a book on several recycling techniques for textiles and even more unusual materials like leather, fur and feathers.



More than fascinating I found the section on crocheting with discarded videotape.
Videotape is a very fascinating material, absolutely sturdy and it looks very elegant as it is shimmering and black. I have tons of old VHS cassettes, but the material seems to be highly toxic and so I will probably throw them away with a heavy heart.

Evelyn Roth's Work is very inspiring. She looks at clothing as a kind of scupture which was very forward thinking for that time.



Stunningly beautiful are the Wearable Edibles and other works of art. Look at them here.

Subversive crocheting: Joana Vasconcelos

This was love on the first sight. Joana Vasconcelos, born 1971 in Paris, works and lives in Lisboa, Portugal. Wonderful 3-D, room filling crochet work between beauty and absurdity.



Good taste or kitsch? Personally I love the painted faience ceramic by late Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro covered with handmade cotton crochet.

Everyday objects transformed. Teapot from lacy wrought iron.


Gorgeous. A giant crocheted tablecloth handmade by 500 persons.

All pictures from here. Look and get enchanted.