Crochet Contest
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CONGRATULATIONS DONNA SNIDER! Please come into the Wab and pick up "Crochet Inspiration", by Sasha Kagan, or email us with your snail mail address and we'll post it to you.
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We have a present to donate to one of our loyal readers. Laura Twiss of Twiss & Weber is donating a copy of Sasha Kagan's Crochet Inspiration to the person who can come up with the most interesting answer to the following question... post your answer in our comments section at the end of this post.
(DRUM ROLL PLEASE)
What is the most beautiful or intriguing piece or work of crochet you have ever seen?
Here is Laura's review:
Crochet Inspiration, by Sasha Kagan
A lovely book to have for those even slightly interested or for those with years of experience in crochet. British knitwear designer Sasha Kagan supplies plenty of large samples of the crochet work in many weights and colours of yarn along with charted maps of each sample and inspiring projects further along the book. The yarns she chose to work with take great photos and are clearly of quality. I find it exciting and refreshing to have so many different types of yarn and weights featured in one book. A task not easy to do well, but Kagan does execute the book well --an example of her years of experience in design and publishing. Kagan’s work is professional and classy. Recently re-released in paperback, I highly recommend Crochet Inspiration.
Crochet Inspiration
Sasha Kagan
Sixth & Spring Books
US $19.95
CAD $25.95
For those of you interested in learning how to crochet or to simpley get back into it, Laura will be giving the following class at the Wab.
Crochet for Beginners:
In two two-hour classes, learn to crochet a simple flat lap-top cozy. Learn the Chain Stitch, and Single Crochet Stitch. From these two stitches you will build your own fabric to cover a laptop, mobile phone, or a simple bag. Bring in your item you want to make a cozy for, or it's dimensions (height, depth, and length). Check out our photo above.
The first class we will build the base for your item, there will be homework between classes, and in the last class we will discuss and execute a variety of closures and finishings.
Notes: Yarn, needles, and pattern provided; No Experience necessary.
Date(s): April 23rd & 30th Time: 10-12 pm Cost: $50.00
One copy of Crochet Inspiration will be awarded to the most interesting answer (write in our comments section) to the following:
What is the most beautiful or intriguing piece or work of crochet you have ever seen? on Thursday night, April 14th at the Wabi Sabi Stitch 'n Bitch from 6-9pm
The gals at the Wab look forward to reading your comments!
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CONGRATULATIONS DONNA SNIDER! Please come into the Wab and pick up "Crochet Inspiration", by Sasha Kagan, or email us with your snail mail address and we'll post it to you.
Hands down, Margie's covered stones (from http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/resurrection_fern/ tip: search covered stones in her archives to see a variety of them). There are lots of crocheted rocks out there but hers are pretty spectacular- in a dreamy, ethereal and romantic kind of way. She incorporates other materials (like liberty arts scraps!) into these little beauties as well... I particularly like her missing pieces stones because fiber "stories" are crocheted into her work as well, causing the stones to resonate on a deeply personal level. Best of all, she's from Canada -Ontario to boot! I hope you can take a moment to sneak a peak if you're not already familiar with them. They really are quite wonderful.
Happy (crochet) making! Hello to all at the "Wab" (love that by the way). Miss seeing everyone there but am a little fearful of making a visit..on a tight budge these days...Hope all are well!
Posted by: Leigh | March 03, 2011 at 06:49 PM
The most inspiring, ambitious and creative crochet I've read about in a long time, is the work by Argata Oleksiak, known as Olek. She covered the famous Charging Bull at the New York City Stock Exchange with pink, purple and blue, camouflage patterned covering. Thankfully the process was video taped and put onto YouTube, because it was removed just hours later. Google: "wall street bull crocheted" to see what I mean.
Posted by: Diana Twiss | March 11, 2011 at 08:47 PM
The most beautiful and intriguing crochet I've ever heard of is Margaret Wertheim's project to re-create the coral reefs with crochet. She's a science writer - and she and her sister, Christine, formed "The Institute of Figuring" to advance the aesthetic appreciation of scientific concepts, from the natural physics of snowflakes and fractals to human constructs such as Islamic mosaics, string figures and weaving. Both crocheting (depending on how it's done) and coral reefs are models of hyperbolic space (cool, eh?). Her main motivation in crocheting coral reefs, however, was to draw attention to the fact that coral reefs are dying around the world (and secondarily to demonstrate what hyperbolic space it).
Here's her Ted talk on crocheting reefs (takes about 15 minutes to watch... WELL worth the time): http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_wertheim_crochets_the_coral_reef.html
Here's some pictures of the crocheted reefs from her project (from an exhibit at the Smithsonian): http://crochetcoralreef.org/exhibitions/smithsonian.php
Posted by: Fiona | March 14, 2011 at 05:45 PM
Mine is not nearly as exciting as the ones above, which I need to check out. When I was a child, all my relatives seemed to have a granny square afghan at their house. I loved the ones that were made with a riot of colours, and put together with no discernible pattern. I found them much more interesting than the organized ones, using only a couple of colours. I don't know where these afghans came from, as I never saw any of my relatives crochet, so it was a long time until I learned to crochet. I taught myself in university, and made slippers and afghans, of course.
Posted by: Mary | March 26, 2011 at 05:53 AM
As soon as I read this, I had my story to share with you right away. The most wonderful, heartwarming crochet I have ever seen without a doubt was earlier this winter. My Grandmother passed away in November, she had a wonderful long life and was still managing to crochet washcloths at 97 years old. When I walked into the funeral home I was overwhelmed at the sight of so many of her crochet blankets, granny square afgans, and other projects displayed around the rooms. Her favourite knitted sweater and crochet tam were displayed by her side. My family had even displayed her project bag; with hooks, needles and the project she had been working on still inside. I felt so connected to her, it was so wonderful:) I had never seen anything like that before. I shared with my relatives that my daughter,age 20, had been crochetting in the car on the journey to the funeral. This experience was very special to me and a memory I will cherish.
Posted by: Donna Snider | April 02, 2011 at 04:36 PM
CONGRATULATIONS DONNA SNIDER! Please come into the Wab and pick up "Crochet Inspiration", by Sasha Kagan, or email us with your snail mail address and we'll post it to you.
Posted by: Laura Twiss | April 17, 2011 at 05:30 AM