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a tikkunknitter s miscellany trying to knit together many other things in life home about links the tikkuntree project a tikkunknitter s miscellany trying to knit together many other things in life feeds posts comments vacating june 22 2009 by tikkunknitter i m sure to be knitting making thinking and so on but from places of silence and repose near and far to be certain there will be plenty to share after the summer holidays here s hoping your summer is as productive as i m hoping mine will be posted in uncategorized leave a comment unnatural museum june 15 2009 by tikkunknitter take a tour of elaine bradford s museum of unnatural history where taxidermy and crochet are taken to unnatural extremes for museum of unnatural history houston based artist elaine bradford has created a faux natural history museum filled with a variety of animals and specimens discovered by the fictitious fringe scientist dr thomas harrigan during his explorations into a dimension known as the sidereal according to the museum s pseudo scientific text the sidereal is in many ways a mirror image of our world that has produced a variety of species possessing adaptations wildly divergent from those we see on earth a visitor to museum of natural history will view creatures that include the pushmi pullyu tragus januali a lichen eating two headed sheep the longcat lynx metamorpha a blue mite covered feline whose powerful limbs and body can expand up to ten times their at rest length and the procyon besheret fondly known as the pair bears due to the permanent fusing of tails during a secret mating ritual the animals on view are constructed from taxidermy animals sometimes in their original state other times cut in half or fused with the bodies of others which are then sheathed in outfits which bradford carefully crochets an art taught to her by her grandmother when the artist was a child growing up in alice texas elaine did not really appreciate the calming repetitive act of crochet nor did she take it seriously as an art until she was in graduate school at the california institute of the arts here bradford developed a project in which she crocheted individual sweaters for everything in her refrigerator including all the baby carrots i was really interested in the connotations that came along with crochet for me ideas of comfort warmth and family the absurd act of making labor intensive objects for things that have no need for them always makes me chuckle posted in artknits curiosities leave a comment animating fiber 6 monsters horror may 23 2009 by tikkunknitter monsters and horror night at the aknitmation festival japanese filmmaker mai tominaga combined live action animation and knitted puppetry in his award winning animé fantasy wool 100 and to take it into the wee hours a few more suggestions attack of the killer crochet hook killer crochet and yarn monster walk posted in uncategorized leave a comment animating fiber 5 poetical puppet may 22 2009 by tikkunknitter perhaps its time for a bit of high culture and crochet the next feature in this aknitmation festival mixes needlework techniques and literature poetree by castlegardner in which the crocheted and knitted puppet was made by ceri watling and don carlson declaimed the raven by edgar allen poe my fingers are twitching posted in uncategorized 1 comment animating fiber 4 domestic dramas may 21 2009 by tikkunknitter and what about aknitmated music and drama here is a music video by max alexander for the tune i am ahab by not too distant future as described by the maker after a fight with his girlfriend ahab becomes overcome with madness and takes drastic action to change himself but things only get worse when he encounters a blood hungry rat monster ahab s quest takes him across turbulent seas and through strange watery worlds on his hunt for a better life will he find what he s looking for or will the monsters get the better of him and another the wool 2003 by german animator ali soozandeh partners beware posted in uncategorized leave a comment animating fiber 3 the erotics of knitting may 20 2009 by tikkunknitter if the nostalgic ball of wool was sweet and the activist don t let it all unravel savory then perhaps it s time for something spicier here s an example of the art of intimate communication by redknittingannie perhaps we might call it in knit imacy posted in uncategorized leave a comment animating fiber 2 unraveling ecology may 19 2009 by tikkunknitter serebryakov s ball of wool was a thrilling example of an early effort to animate needlework the magical knitted environment so affectionately created was unravelled by uncontrolled exploitation of its special resource it s paschal ball of wool the second feature in this miniature animation festival also concerns environment and its loss but with a distinctly modern twist don t let it all unravel by sarah cox was recently presented at the encounters film festival bristol england this one really makes clear how powerfully fiber can speak to us posted in animation leave a comment animating fiber ball of wool a knitted fairy tale may 18 2009 by tikkunknitter recently research for a special knitting project still under wraps has uncovered all sorts of spectacular finds including some fiber related short films and animations some of which must be shared i ve already posted about animated shorts most of us are familiar with by now the last knit spring fever knitting addiction and tricot machine s knitted music video knitting machine thanks to the generosity of those who have shared their work online it will be possible as my needles click away during the next few weeks to bring many others i ve found together in a miniature fiber film animation festival first on the program ball of wool 1968 an animated short film made in 1968 by russian artist and filmmaker nikolai serebryakov 1928 2005 more information about this remarkable animator is available from this obituary ball of wool is a knitted fable rather like the goose that laid the golden egg so i m thinking if animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2 d or 3 d artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement it is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision source then mightn t the use of fiber and related fiber arts knitting crochet weaving etc to create the illusion be called a k ni t mation more aknitmation tomorrow posted in animation artknits 2 comments code pink cozying up for peace may 12 2009 by tikkunknitter and so sometimes i think that if you just put the mothers in charge for a while that things would get resolved barack obama recently i contributed six pink and green knitted squares to the thousands collected for the white house fence cozy that code pink used in its 2009 mothers day vigil for peace this was code pink s second 24 hour vigil in front of the white house in honor of all mothers and women living under occupation and war zones for whom the price of war is the safety and lives of loved ones their homes and their future with roses lifted and giant cozy unfurled hundreds called for the return of us troops from afghanistan and iraq so that no more mothers will grieve the loss of children in these wars additional still images of code pink s white cozy project the process of assembling the giant cozy in d c and the vigil are available here but therealnews televised report roses and guns for mother s day helped me to feel a part of the action in spite of the distance code pink s work includes support for peace in gaza as well they are also sponsoring a fund raising compaign for the children of gaza 10 will enable us to buy a backpack full of schools supplies for a child 50 will enable 5 children to have the tools they need for the school year 100 will help build an international friendship playground at one of the schools destroyed during the invasion perhaps you could put down your knitting needles or crochet hook long enough to make a contribution posted in knittivism leave a comment march ing through the wips march 20 2009 by tikkunknitter yes some days are bitter cold or wet and bitter cold but others are mild a bit steamy the afternoon sun is warm on our shoulders as we do weekend errands so it s been time to pull out the unfinished winter projects the last pair of mittens for the nieces the remaining hats for me and one to send off to the sioux elders wanting to study twined knitting this year i ve been working on a couple of pairs of mittens that draw on a variety of twining and colorwork techniques i finally finished a pair of mittens for the youngest niece let finally because i seemed to have been knitting on fumes after the winter holiday rush to finish so many gloves and mitts no pattern for these little dainties but guided by those shared by other generous knitters here and here some skeins of araucania pink and magenta us 3 3 25 mm dpns and online discussion of twined knitting techniques somehow i managed to include most of the technical elements i d set out to study multi color casting on 3 strand braided cast on and corrugated ribbing on the cuffs bands of twined crook or chain stitches above the wrists this project was a delight to research twined knitting resources abound on the net here and here for instance and it s easy to find powerful inspiration from amazing twiners like anna maj s and asplund a pair of multi color wintergreen mittens pattern by kate gilbert finally came off the needles a bit later than planned worked in a niece s favorite earthy colors araucania nature wool multi us 2 2 75 mm would go up a size next time around these were a challenging treat to execute recharted the leaves to turn them so that they point towards the fingers now revised some of the twists so that they lay flatter using decreases and increases instead of 3 st twists and worked a thumb gusset at side instead of inset thumb on palm wish i d gone up a size on the needles but soldiered on having frogged the cuffs once detail of the surface compare twisted sts with dec and increase techniques vertigo hat by kerstin michler just in time for the vernal equinox a straightforward little pattern which made a wonderful hat with the colors i anticipate from spring noro silk garden and us 6 4 0 mm needles 16 circulars and dpns worked with 40 sts instead of 45 for woman s hat used just over 1 skein of yarn to knit the 11 sections required kob ying yang beret iv ying yang beret by nancy marchant noro silk garden us 4 3 5 mm needles just because i love this pattern just because i want to try kob instead of brioche just because i love silk garden yarns just because i could use a noro hat to match my scarf just because my us 4 3 5 mm dpns are empty just because i could manage another rehearsal project nb substituting kob for brioche worked just fine made double increases in similar manner k1 yo k1 in same st and decreases also work similarly but on next round i worked sl1 k1 to make only 1 yo in back instead of 2 in preparation for the decrease next row and then kkob to k2tog helped to place both strands on the needle before knitting and did a double braid at edge i like it firmer otherwise the beret seems indistinguishable from its traditional brioche twin posted in uncategorized leave a comment older posts search for october 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 jun pages about links the tikkuntree project a a select category animation 2 artknits 6 bags 2 boyknits 1 brioche 5 charity knitting 11 clogs slippers 7 curiosities 10 ecoknitting 1 environment 1 family 4 felting 9 fos 3 tikkun charity knitting 2 knitted judaica 15 knitting world 1 knittivism 12 my knitting 10 my patterns 9 other knitterly things i do 1 reversible knitting 3 rs tikkunknitters 5 spinning 1 stranded knitting 1 swaps 1 techniques 1 tikkuntree 1 uncategorized 28 a knitted life 2007 ufos 2007 fos 2006 fos 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