Loom Bands & Yarn Bombs! A Tea Party To Remember. Common Chaos When an event invite pops up in my inbox that involves a tea party, a loom band session and a ridiculous amount of knitted and crotchet items, you’ve got to ask yourself if there’s any better suited family to go and check it out…… That’s right, our Common Chaos Crew were besides themselves with excitement, and I must say, I may have even been a tad more keen than the kids were! So we headed to Melbourne, grinning from ear to ear about the endless ideas & creations we would be inspired to make after seeing a top notch Yarn Bombing display and attending a tea party fit for loom band royalty. OK, OK, the MonsterSquad and I were pumped. The tea party was beautiful and the kids enjoyed their treats while competing in the longest fishtail competition and learning new tricks and ways to make different bracelets out of loom bands. Jai was interviewed about how he started making Loom Bands and spoke clearly about all his favourite looms to make including Minecraft Creeper Keyring charms.
Twilight Taggers: How To Yarn Bomb I get asked all the time "How do you yarn bomb exactly?" So here's a How To guide on yarn bombing. This is just from my personal experience. Start with something small like a small pole piece or a granny square and then you'd be done in no time and won't be discouraged with such a large time consuming project. 2. 4. If using only sewing, you run the risk of the piece not staying tied securely to the object. Sewing a tag onto a horizontal object like a banister is fine as it will generally stay well. 8. 9. More helpful links:What You'll Need To Take When Yarn Bombing Things To Remember About Yarn BombingIdeas For Yarn Bombs To Make Luv Bali. P.S. Yarn Bomb On Esk Street Mall | What's on in Invercargill | What's On Invers | What's on Southland Map Unavailable Date/Time 10/05/2015 - 17/05/2015 All Day Organizer Details Lyndal Ludlow Our aim is to unite the community through yarn. Sharing skills, passion, and knowledge throughout our community to produce a fun, inspiring installation that tells something about who we are and what we love. Get along this week for a look at the amaing knit works on Esk Street Mall Related Story and Photos Related Comments comments
Natural dyeing techniques / Middle - Years 7–10 / Teaching snapshots / Resources / Welcome to Technology Online - Technology Online Faced with teaching Soft Materials in a Hard Materials workroom, Technology teacher Demelza Cusens chose to see it as a challenge rather than problem. "I thought it was a perfect opportunity to change people's perceptions about Soft Materials and so I took it from the textiles manipulation standpoint." Demelza Cusens Timetable changes meant Demelza would only see her Year 9 classes for five one-hour periods over ten days, so she also needed a context that would allow her students to complete their work within this time frame. She decided each class would work on a different project based on experimentation with natural dyes: developing house roofs for a stage set and creating a booklet resource. Selection of dye patterns. Blue fabric dye patterns. Demelza was keen to introduce her students to natural dyeing techniques, having attended a week-long course run by India Flint; see the Technology Online Resource Review on India Flint's book Eco Colour: Botanical dyes for beautiful textiles.
How to Weave on a Cardboard Loom June 25th, 2008 Email 1322 users recommend Weaving like this can be the basis for so many projects: place mats, coasters, bags, hats—use your imagination. All photos by Diane Gilleland Keep your edges a little loose, and they'll stay nice and straight. An ordinary salad fork makes a great tool for keeping your weaving snug. Photo: All photos by Diane Gilleland 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5next> View all Weaving is such a meditative, relaxing craft—and at the end of it, you have fabric! I like to re-use cardboard shipping envelopes for my simple looms. Begin by deciding how wide you want your weaving to be. Next, measure and mark every 1/4 inch along the edge of your cardboard, working between the two width marks you made in the previous step. Draw a line 1/2 inch from the edge of the cardboard. Use a pair of strong scissors to cut a series of slits in the edge of the envelope, 1/4 inch apart. Repeat these steps on the opposite edge of the cardboard. View 1 member project gallery
Halls Creek Festival - Yarn Bombing Saturday and SundayDiscovery Village Calling all Knitters & Crocheters! Yarn bombing is a community art project where people come together to cover objects in yarn. How to get involved: 1. 2. 3. Everyone is welcome to create granny squares 6” X 6”, 12” X 12”, or flowers, or let us know some of your creative suggestions. 5 Most Amazing Yarn Bombings You Don't Want to Miss Nothing brings a smile to my face like a yarn bombing. Whether it’s a huge installation on a bridge or just a small one like a doorknob cozy, seeing everyday objects covered in yarn brightens my day instantly. Fiber artists like Olek and Magda Sayeg are practically yarn craft-household names in the world of yarn bombing, organizing some of the most famous fiber installations we know. Now, yarn bombings are now becoming so large in size that it often takes the cooperation of fiber artists and large organizations to stage the entire installation. Photo via Yarn Bombing Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles From far away, you’d never know that all these colorful squares are actually crocheted granny squares. More than 500 crafters from around the world contributed to this specific project. Photo via Alicia Kachmar Mr. Yarn bombing statues is not uncommon, as we’ve seen from yarn bombings like the Rocky statue in Philly. The red sweater, symbolic of the sweaters Mr.
Two ways of making woolly pompoms | the Little Koo blog When I was younger and a family member or friend was expecting a baby, my Mum would encourage me and my brother to make pompoms for the new baby. So it seemed only right that I would make a few for my own twins who are due any day! I have found 2 ways of making pompoms, which I will call the ‘traditional’ way and the ‘quick’ way. Let’s start with the traditional way. For this you will need: Wool (any type, in 1 or more colours)Card (I used a piece of a cardboard box)Scissors Cut out two circles the same size from the card. Cut your wool into manageable lengths and wrap into spools (pictured above). Put your two card rings together and start wrapping the wool round. When you are wrapping, pull the wool fairly tight. Start the next spool of wool next to where you left off. Once you’ve gone all the way round the card ring once, start another layer on top of the previous one. Keep going until the hole in the middle of the ring becomes very small! Now for the fun part! Go all the way round.
Knitters turn to graffiti artists with 'yarnbombing' Artist Sarah Hardacre, 31, from Salford, Manchester, has taken up Yarnbombing in her spare time. She said: "Yarnbombing is all about using the street for making art. "I have knitted cosies for trees and even covered an entire garden shed in knitted squares before – it certainly put smiles on peoples faces. "It is about the community taking pride in their surroundings and making it look nice and colourful. "Yarnbombing is easy to do and can catch the imagination and creativity of so many people." The craze is thought to have been dreamed up by clothes shop owner Magda Sayeg, 35, from Texas in the US. She set up the website Knitta Please, which started off as a group for frustrated knitters who didn't know what to do with their half-finished jumpers and scarfs and so started putting them over door handles. The craze quickly took off with Mrs Sayeg's most outlandish project being the bus. "I was sat in my shop one afternoon and decided to do something to brighten up the place," she said.
Not Your Grandma's Knitting: 20 Incredible Yarn Bombs While certain types of permanent graffiti can be a very beautiful addition to an otherwise bland space, much of the time it's unattractive and a pain to remove. Yarn bombing, however, is a completely different story. Easily removable, yarn bombing focuses less on making a permanent statement and more on lending a sense of warmth to colder spaces. From bike racks to buses, yarn bombers seem to have found a way to add a knit cover to almost any type of outdoor item. Show As Gallery What do you think of this crafty trend? Image: Flickr, waltarrrrr