I'm obsessed with flickr groups lately. I came across a group called knithacker that is dedicated to knitting projects that are a bit whacked out, have a certain flare, or are a combination of a couple of patterns combined together to make, as they said, "something gloriously unique and knitty-licious."
They also have a website--and they picked one of my projects from the photo pool that they featured. How fab! This knithack was part of my project Pieces of Koco. I wonder where it is now and how it's doing.
Channel 6 aired the story today to promote the craft swap tomorrow at Mew with the Sewing Collective. They presented it as a way to save money whereas the focus in the interviews was on community and creativity.
It's always strange to watch yourself. I was there, next to Amber, of PheaJean, for a few seconds giving my "I'm soooo interested" look. Hilarious. You can check out the video here.
I have to put together a bag of things to take to the swap that I can part with. This may end up being a difficult task. My yarn stash is out of control, so I'll probably bring some of that in hopes of trading it for some red buttons or cool fabric.
In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell talked about mavens, people with some kind of specialized knowledge. For all things funny, interesting, and important in the world I rely heavily on two sources: my friend Luimbe and the almighty ITP Alumni listserv. Luimbe is a maven when it comes to the most delicious ridiculousness from the internet.
Luimbe has a unique ability--a super human magnetism that sucks things in from all corners of the internet. He scans content at lightning speeds, tossing aside the best nonsense to serve up to people like myself in the form of links. Beautiful, hilarious, brilliant links. His links are so tasty that I feel it is time to dedicate occasional content on my own blog to the wonders I discover through him. I will call it Luimbe's GoldLui's Golden Ticket, uhhh... golden linkage? Luimbe's Links? Links Love Lui? LinkLuimbe? http://luimbelinks? Good Ish from the Big L... I'll have to think about that more. Just so you get an idea of what I'm talking about, here are some recent tidbits from my inbox:
The Philadelphia Sewing Collective is holding a supply swap at Mew Gallery this Saturday. Channel 6 did a feature about the event and it will air on Friday around noon. This should be fun. Be sure to RSVP to give them a good idea of how many people will be there.
I love the way fabric looks when it's rolled. I need to make more stuff out of these rolls. I started playing with rolled fabric last year around this time and made a trivet and some fiber wall pieces. Here's a new experiment with the rolled denim beads for thing-a-day:
I'm trying to focus on paper things this week, but I'm getting distracted--by my bed calling me to go to sleep, and buttons telling me to make things with them instead. I made a paper mobile out of circles I cut out of SEPTA schedules and the necklace is made from a kilt pin with buttons on it. I'm really into buttons right now. I don't know why; I've never been into buttons before.
I've missed out on two holidays in 2009 due to late notification. This is unacceptable.
Today is Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, but I had a bowl of wheatina. I totally would have eaten a huge bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream if I had only known just a few hours earlier about this. Doesn't everyone know that YOU MUST TELL MISS KOCO about these things?!
Nobody has kept precise track but through word of mouth ICFBD has been celebrated in many homes, states and countries all over the world. Some people give parties with musical instruments, others simply celebrate with family members. There is no right or wrong so long as you follow the 3 plus 1 simple Ice Cream for Breakfast Day Rules
(1) Eat ice cream
(2) for breakfast
(3) on the first Saturday in February
(4) spread the word
The rest is up to you!
I also missed out on Intergalactic Tutu Day! I can't tell you how much I would have loved to celebrate ITD 2009 this year. It's possibly unhealthy how much I want to wear a tutu right now.
On Earth, Intergalactic Tutu Day is celebrated on February 2nd of each solar year. While the observation of Intergalactic Tutu Day varies greatly from civilization to civilization, the most common practice is for beings to simply wear tutus! You do have a tutu, don't you?
Please notify me of any fun upcoming holidays I must celebrate. Here are a few I'm considering to add to my calendar:
Blame Someone Else Day -- Feb. 13th Pi Day -- March 14th
Take Your Pants for a Walk Day--July 27
I will not be participating in:
International Sword Swallowers Day -- Feb. 28th
Pig Day --March 1st
National Sea Monkey Day -- May 16th
My lovely tinyredhead made a mistake and put her chocolate split collar turtleneck sweater in the wash. It shrunk. I took it and performed some magic on it. I transformed the sad sweater into a fierce neck warmer, cozy leg warmers, and a pair of mittens to keep tinyredhead appendages from freezing off.
The legwarmers used to be sleeves, the mittens I cut from the body, and the neck warmer is from the collar. After all that there isn't much left of the sweater, but I might be able to squeeze another project out of it. The great thing about felted material is that you don't have to worry about it fraying, so this opens up a lot of possibilities. All made in under an hour; I'm really getting into my thing-a-day projects.
I'm obsessed with flickr groups lately. I came across a group called knithacker that is dedicated to knitting projects that are a bit whacked out, have a certain flare, or are a combination of a couple of patterns combined together to make, as they said, "something gloriously unique and knitty-licious."
