Toxic Reef – Hyperbolic Crochet

I’ve been following the work of Margaret and Christine Wertheim, founders of the Institute for Figuring, for a few years now. I tried my own hand at hyperbolic crochet, and was invited by Margaret to contribute to her coral reef project. At one point, I had intended to make something of the collection [...]

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Knitting Activism

Square from Knit A River
Today, via Bloggreen, I found out about the I Knit “Knit A River” campaign. This UK-based crafting activism project:
… is a campaign with WaterAid. The campaign is designed to raise awareness of WaterAid and their vision – a world where everyone has access to safe water and effective sanitation.
Instead [...]

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Grocery bag knit dress

Forget my puny little evening bag. Check out this dress knitted from plastic bags:

By Cathy Kasdan, who is currently finishing up a Master’s in textiles at Kent State University and her thesis is based on consumer culture.
via Craftzine.
The dress is all hand knit from grocery bags that were the result of actual trips to [...]

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Crocheted plastic bag evening bag

I finished the evening bag crocheted from newspaper condoms from the New York Times and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It came out pretty nicely, only problem is it didn’t use nearly enough bags and they come in at a rate of 2-4 per day!

Plastic bag craft is kind of an interesting genre. There are some really [...]

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Eye candy of the deep sea kind

After seeing this review in Deep Sea News of The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvia, I may be forced to purchase it. I’ve been looking for some good inspiration for sea creatures to contribute to the hyperbolic crochet coral reef, and this looks like excellent source material.

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