Time For Woolly Hats?

I don't know about you but I had to put the heating on last night - it's August!!  I'm spending my slowly getting darker nights knitting my hats as I have been doing for a few years now.  Lovely mixing the strands to create a textured quality to the ribbed hats.  They seem to be ending up Autumnal or bright and cheery Spring I guess.  Which do you prefer?  Planning a craft fair or two ....

Mollie Makes

ISSUE 33 LINK

ISSUE 33 LINK

My lovely daughter Kirsty aka 'awoodentree' was asked to contribute to December's 'Mollie Makes'.  I'm so delighted for her and I might just try it out myself!

What is Craft

Jeroen Verhoeven

Excellent piece in the V & A website about defining what is craft from key figures in the industry at all levels - well worth a read!  Here's a little taste below from Edmund de Waal - Practitioner.

'Craft is a starting place, a set of possibilities.  It avoids absolutes, certainties, over-robust definitions, solace.  It offers places, interstices, where objects and people meet.  It is unstable, contingent.  It is about experience.  It is about desire.  It can be beautiful.'

Artyzan At The Emporium

Debbie

Detail of Debbie's work

Marianne

Detail of Marianne's work

Jewelery designer Susan Urquhart

Exciting new creative adventure in Kirkcaldy's High Street - the opening of 'The Emporium' featuring Artyzan and other local makers, artists and designers.

Creative Interviews : A '1 Year On' Birthday Thank You!!

A great big Thank You all the amazing people who have taken the time to support my Creative Interviews.  I can't believe I've had the opportunity to show off such diverse and interesting creatives.  

Adam Monsterosity

Amity Roach

Cathy Cullis

Deborah Beau

Gillian Bates
 

Hattie Stewart

More to follow!