crochet
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I’ve done it! I did it! The first garment in my wardrobe, totally constructed by me panel by panel and stitch by stitch. This thing is both heavy and airy, a grainy transition between many of my favorite colors. Weaving it up (loop by knot, with a crochet hook that matched the colorway) leaves an…
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This is an age of polished media. I’ve talked about it before in my review of Videodrome, on how the polish often paints over the grime and devalues the time put into something imperfect. I pick apart and apart and apart my crochet projects because I’ve missed a stitch, misread the pattern, and the project…
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I never met my great grandmother Velma, she died some years before I was even born. Based on photos and my mom’s recollections of her to me, she was a short woman with a big personality and an uncanny knack for fiber arts. 20 years after her death, my mom drove our minivan three days…
from the pen of icarus blake 