MMMM River comes down in Atlanta tomorrow….

Bye-bye Agnes Scott College….
Curator Lisa Alembik is a saint for taking down my installation without  me…..
Next, it returns home to Seattle for a little urban installation at Ohge Ltd. Gallery here in Seattle, which I believe opens on January 23rd…..and I just realized I’ll need to make more ropes, oh my!  Watch out for a [...]

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A little film from the “Knitting and Networking” event at the AFTA conference on June 19th

 
YouTube – hooked in seattle 7 1 09.
A perfect example of the flow of conversation  when people have something to do with their hands.  (but it looks like I’m talking about washing dishes….)

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High Point Library redux, West Seattle

These young ladies were one of the highlights of making this project!  I’ve just been thinking about them and hoping they can make it to the park to see the installation/performance.  
 

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Dancing at the Sustainable West Seattle Festival a few weeks ago

 
I’m continuing to try to catch up with posting about all the great places and events I’m visiting, in no particular order.  A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of bringing my project to a booth at the Sustainable West Seattle Festival.
  I just happened to share my booth with West Seattle’s “Dance for Joy” [...]

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Ballard coming and going; This weekend and last

 
I have such a glut of images of all the events and people who have been joining in with MMMM! The weekends seem to coming at me faster and faster as this phase of the project, the community art events, move into their last month.  From June 15th till the performance, I will mostly be [...]

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Broadview Revisted….

After tonight’s date with the streets of Ballard, I will be heading back to Broadview Library on this Saturday  from 12-4. A few weeks ago, I took my project to Broadview on a Thursday night, already knowing that my non-weekend night library gigs were usually not well attended. I had just really wanted [...]

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Valuing Process over Product: West Seattle Library

It was a quiet day at the West Seattle Library a few weeks ago, which gave me some insight into what it means to really value process over product.
Robin stopped by with several balls of wool she had spun and dyed just for the project!  How incredibly lucky I feel to get to work with [...]

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At Delridge Library….all about the Mother

It’s been almost three weeks of really traveling the cardinal directions of Seattle.  Today I’m spending some time crocheting up huge strips of hand-dyed silk, alpaca and pearls for the wearable element of MMMM, and I also need to reflect upon and share some of the places I have been to.  Thank you Delridge neighborhood [...]

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A HUGE thank you to Karin Skacel Haack at Skacel Yarn! Crochet hooks for kids!

This piece is bringing me in contact with so many generous people, freely giving their support (a hem, Sharon Arnold at dimensions variable), encouragement, their time, old clothes, old yarn, etc. etc.  But I have to just also give a gigantic thank you to Karin Skacel Haack , the president of Skacel Collection, Inc. , a Seattle-based [...]

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Thank you SAM for a great “Climate Day for Kids” at the Sculpture Park!

Last weekend I had the pleasure of participating in SAM’s “Climate Day for Kids” in celebration on Earth Day.  Jackie White, Environmental Steward at SAM, and her crew put together an incredible event for kids and families at the Olympic Sculpture Park.
 I brought my own family, and now seem to hear daily from my son how to [...]

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All you new crocheters, remember…..

 
……..insert, wrap, pull through one, wrap again, pull through two, insert, wrap, pull through one, wrap again, pull through two…
Many many thanks to all who have joined in!

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Crocheting at Libraries! (Douglass-Truth, Columbia City…)

 
 

This patch made from small bits from a workshop at Cornish

Many of my crocheting events are hosted at Seattle libraries around the city, utilizing a fantastic public resource, the community meeting room.  They are free to use, as long as the meeting is free, open to the public, not selling anything (and a few other [...]

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Last Friday, Greenwood/Phinney “Seattle Summer Streets” !

 
Last Friday, at the Greenwood/Phinney “Seattle Summer Streets” giant block party, I rolled out my traveling studio-on-a-cart down the middle of the street, sat down and got to work!  
 
 
At first the empty street felt pretty eerie, but once things started going I had more people than I could handle wanting to crochet or find [...]

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