Grace Brett, who is 104-years-old, might look the epitome of sweet, elderly innocence– but there’s an actual possibility that she might just be the oldest street artist in the world.
Women from Selkirk, Ettrickbridge and Yarrow, in the Scottish Borders who are a team of “guerrilla knitters” .
But while she isn’t tagging walls with graffiti cans, the great-grandmother is part of a group of ‘yarnstormers’ who are covering monuments with adorable knitted designs in the Scottish county of borders.
The prevailing hobby of mermaiding sounds like the perfect summer activity. It involves wearing a mesmerizing mermaid tail costume as you swim and relax in a body of water. While this is great for warmer months and tropical climates, what’s a mermaid enthusiast to do when the seasons change and temperatures drop? Thanks to crochet artist Melanie Campbell (of CassJamesDesigns), mythical creature fans can get their hands on a mermaid tail blanket that’s the epitome of comfort and coziness. Plus, these fantastical creations will definitely brighten up a dreary winter day!
Each colorful design is handmade to fit different sizes for adults, children, and toddlers. For up to $200, you can purchase your very own crocheted mermaid tail through Campbell’s Etsy shop.
Caitlin McCormack creates crocheted animals that appear to decay in front of your eyes, delicate corpses crafted from cotton string and glue. To produce each of her sculptures she must stiffen the string which produces a consistency similar to the bone tissue of the animals she is recreating. These fragile remains appear extremely macabre, a typically cute hobby made somewhat morbid.
Documented on dark backgrounds, the details of her creations are all the more apparent, string dangling from bits of the animals’s arms and wings as if it was truly decomposing. By using a technique inherited from her deceased relatives McCormack says she “aim[s] to generate emblems of my diminishing bloodline, embodied by each organism’s skeletal remains.”
In the interest of contributing to the world wide phenomenon initiated by The Institute for Figuring (http://www.theiff.org), In Stitches Collective is facilitating the creation of the ‘Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef’ to be presented in a public exhibition in August 2009.
Learn to crochet and be part of this inclusive collaboration that builds environmental awareness and links communities through science, mathematics, art and craft.
Bring a crochet hook and some materials to crochet (limited hooks and yarn available on the day). We encourage the use of recycled materials.
