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WIP – Transistor Radio
One of the assignments I set myself to undertake during Love is Awesome, was the recreation of the transistor radio detailed in the 1972 Ladybird book, ‘Making a Transistor Radio.’ I am not the first person to have thought of this and I am poorly versed in the complexities of circuitry. But the clear diagrams […]
Assignment
A few visitors to Love is Awesome have quizzed me on the reasoning behind the assignment format. I have thought about this quite a lot during the past week and am forming a few ideas about my decisions. I suppose I want to present a lot of ideas in ways that convey both the meanings […]
Make do and mend
Ages ago I got this kind of woollen smock from Primark. At the time I marvelled that something that was 80% pure lambswool could cost so little, since there is no way the yarn to knit such a thing could have been bought for a comparable price. It was about £10. I have loved the […]
FO: The Hourglass Sweater
Here I am in the gallery, listening to my headphones in the window and looking whistfully down at the darkening street below. Keen-eyed spotters will notice that I am wearing a new sweater. I cannot recommend The Hourglass Sweater highly enough to anyone who is attempting to calm themselves during a period of emotional upheaval. […]
Love is Awesome is Open!
Thaddaeus is my brother and there is no way in the world that the show would have opened yesterday without him. Not only did he lug my maple-top table from a car-park into the gallery and up the stairs, not only did he drill into the impossible walls of Gallery 10 for me to be […]
Love Assignment #5: Build Memoryphones
On my radiator at the moment, 2 knitted headphone pouches are blocking in preparation for their assemblage as memoryphones. I would like to invite some opinion on the nature of the memoryphones. Knitted from the yarn that Rachael spun out of a much beloved cassette last year at Analogue Amnesty, the memoryphones were initially intended […]
Poster Competition update
Remember the poster competition? Well, I entered Love Is Awesome poster into the competition, along with the following blurb, and won £50. Thanks everyone for your feedback and thoughts on what makes a really great poster; the prize-money will go to printing the Cards that I am making for Love Is Awesome. This poster was […]
Cakes and Biscuits
Hurrah for the random Internet with which I am presently blessed. Since I haven’t lost the connection, I am going to write about cakes and biscuits as I have been thinking about them recently. Some of the Things that I moved to this home from my last include a (by now inedible) special-edition cake acquired […]
AND
I finished my flier:
Love Assignment #2: make a flier of your day
I am going to make the flier tonight, but as an exercise to warm me up and give me some illustration ideas, I thought I would get the text up here. Wake up. Lara’s House, 7am. Have overslept. Cold, dark, winter. COFFEE. I leave. Oxford Express to London. Knitting Hourglass sweater until travel-sick at Hillingdon. […]
LOVE IS AWESOME
Even when love goes wrong, it is still awesome. And there are many kinds of Love and many kinds of Awesome. I hope our exhibition will reflect this and offer a broader range of human, emotional experiences than the 2-D thing we are offered on asinine Valentine’s day cards these days. Remember the Poster Competition? […]
FO: Mr Bump Inspired Double Knit Beanie
I present the completed Mr Bump-inspired*-double-knit-Beanie-Hat I made for Mark this year for Christmas. Ravelled here. A tantalising glimpse of the hat. Shamefully, I presented this article of clothing to Mark in an unknitted state on Christmas morning, but I think I redeemed myself by completing it in time for the walking holiday. Beautifully wrapped […]
poster competition
I have just received an email from the Oxford Brookes University annual poster competition, calling for entries. Entrants can put in any poster they have designed themselves, for consideration within the competition. The guidelines concerning the nature of the poster are somewhat vague: PLEASE ATTACH A SHORT (APPROX 250 WORDS) ABSTRACT OUTLINING THE WORK TO […]
Walking and Listening.
Thanks so much everyone for your help in identifying the mystery bird from my last post! I think you are all right and the sound I heard was a Great Tit singing. The first few files that I found through google relating to the birdsong of Great Tits didn’t sound at all like what I […]
Family Christmas
One of my brothers works on a cruise ship with his fiancee, Sian, and this means that our family Christmas is dictated by when they can come ashore. This means that this year our family Christmas was held on 28th November. I was very keen to handmake many of the gifts and in between writing […]
Baby knitting.
In the rush up to Christmas and faced with the panic of not knowing exactly what to get for various newborns, I have been trawling the Ravelry queues for beauteous baby knits and casting on wildly about myself as if deranged. Somewhere between completing a pair of booties and a norwegian hat pattern, I have […]
Secrets.
This time of year is all about the secrets. Today I have been secretly knitting something joyous, which can be shared (happily) on Ravelry, since the intended recipient of this particular gift is not a Raveller. All I will say is that I am even more in love with the Fyberspates Robin colourway now than […]
Messy Studio…
After reading Ysolda’s post featuring her workspace, I decided we needed a recent photo of The Studio. I am not sad it is such a mess; the state it’s in is representative of yesterday’s wrapping-paper making, in which much fun was had. To make said wrapping paper I assembled rubber stamps from my collection, old […]
sound/image
When not playing Junior Scrabble with Stavroula yesterday, I was hatching plans. With Stav, the focus was on the exciting, forthcoming Love Is Awesome exhibition, also involving Emmylou and Rachael Matthews. With my supervisor, I was working on another new project. Many plots are afoot… The new project is to be a sonic advent calendar, […]
Feedback…
Last week saw the Feedback Shed books going into the post for all the artists involved with Magic Hour. Additionally, a small group of us came together to discuss The Fantastical Reality Radio Show, making the whole week feedbacktastic. Feedback Shed book. Working on the book has been a real process of valuing commentary and […]
FO: The Feedback Shed Artistbook
I finished the Feedback Shed Artistbook today. More about this tomorrow, right now? Wine with my man to celebrate.
Ginger Cake
This is the recipe for the ginger/squash cake that I made for consumption at the Knitted Vegetable Workshop. Once again, let us note the marvel that is Barbara’s knitted pumpkin! This is adapted from a recipe in my much-used, much-post-it-noted and much-stained copy of Cook Eat Enjoy by Weight Watchers but sadly, due to my […]
Knitted Vegetable Workshop
On my Eat Your Greens post, Susan asked me if I had ever knit a potato. At the time of that post, I confess that I hadn’t, and I found myself saddened by having to respond to the question in the negative. I have fixed that now and can confidently assert that indeed I have […]
Last minute preparations
I have but one and a half of our delicious squashkins left, for I just grated the other half into a squash/ginger cake for tonight’s workshop attendees. I have also loaded all the wool assembled so far into a very large suitcase. Nobody is going to be short of any desired colour, that’s for sure… […]
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