Finger Puppies!
Okay…you’re probably getting tired of my obsession with finger puppets, but I MUST tell you about the finger puppet pattern I found at Knituition. The sample for the finger puppy at Knitutition are the 2 pups on the right…the dark chocolate on the left is my standard poodle CJ (aka Cowboy Junior). The white one [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Can you tell I’m really into finger puppets?! I found this neat pattern at Team Knit, so check them out. There’s some beautiful neckwarmer patterns on the blog as well. Also, there’s pictures of some awesome manufactured knitted and crocheted bathing suits that will inspire and wish away the pounds.
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In the previous post, I wrote about knitting fingerpuppets of the presidental candidates, Obama and McCain, and how the creative process led me to paint ‘fingerprint portraits’ of both people. These fingerprint portraits are now in a gallery, and have received several commissioned fingerprint portraits.
Here’s an example of one. The first image is the canvas [...]
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‘contemplating’ by Marti Hand. I did this sculpture in early 2008 working from a live model.
A few posts ago, I knitted finger puppets of the presidental candidates, Obama and McCain. During the creative process of knitting the finger puppets, the idea of painting fingerprint portraits of Obama and McCain evolved. Scroll down a few posts [...]
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I’ve been busy dishing up fingerless mittens in this wonderfully simple and pleasing pattern of cables. Here’s the link for this lovely pattern.
As I posted a few weeks ago, I looooove fingerless mittens – so easy, fast, useful, practical and fun! I am planning to start a victorian pair of fingerless mittens with beading, as an experiment [...]
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My first post described the similarities between knitting and creating a painting. The act of knitting also helps in the thinking process that goes into the initial phases of a painting, at least for me. To begin a painting usually entails 3 elements: reading, imagery, and thinking. These three components, then, swirl in my mind/brain during a ‘percolation’ phase, [...]
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Hi, my name is Polyphemus, and I’m going to__________________you. Remember the Chucky movies? Joking here, of course. Let me start again….
Je m’appelle, Polyphemus. I am a cyclops, and a member of the primoridal race of giants. My father is Poseidon who is known as the “father of the sea.” Our most outstanding feature, among other very fine [...]
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A few posts ago, I showed you the finger puppets I knitted of the presidental candidates, McCain and Obama. Since the inspiration for the non-representational portraits were finger puppets, I decided to title them ‘fingerprint portraits’, and here they are. The lines that produce the fingerprints are word descriptions of each candidate, e.g., party, quotes, education, family, [...]
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