tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292363929624673682024-03-14T10:53:27.232-07:00Tapestry CrochetAnuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-49295425463094324552008-08-04T00:36:00.000-07:002008-08-04T02:49:15.633-07:00Fun Hats<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJbDXoJRGII/AAAAAAAABkk/7vq2_B4B_d4/s1600-h/2485956111_7a4045357b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJbDXoJRGII/AAAAAAAABkk/7vq2_B4B_d4/s320/2485956111_7a4045357b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230582827918104706" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Carole Ventura's precise tapestry crochet hats,<br />beautifully designed and executed,<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">her work shows us the meaning of excellence.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Tapestry crochet lends itself well to making hats. We are having an exceptionally cold winter this year so hats have come out of storage and the hook is busy after so much inspiration from the postings of hats in the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/tapestrycrochet/pool/tags/hat/">Flickr Tapestry Crochet group</a>. Go check them out.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />The quickest way to find them all is to go to the Flickr group and bring up the Tags, click on the "<span style="font-weight: bold;">hat" </span>tag and up will come all the hats tagged with it.<br /><br />That's the importance of tags, so don't forget to tag your postings, they'll even turn up in Google Image Searches that way too.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">I've posted a few really fun examples of creative tapestry crochet inventive hat genius here.<br />But do go see all of them.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa6OVDPbBI/AAAAAAAABkE/9bdsgnxrsDQ/s1600-h/241648001_fc021c07e8_t.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa6OVDPbBI/AAAAAAAABkE/9bdsgnxrsDQ/s320/241648001_fc021c07e8_t.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230572772569082898" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Nordic design stars in Torirot's baby hat</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa6N4POFCI/AAAAAAAABjs/jKHsiOuhwDM/s1600-h/2384228246_e6cc1b4336.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa6N4POFCI/AAAAAAAABjs/jKHsiOuhwDM/s320/2384228246_e6cc1b4336.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230572764834698274" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">One of Wanda's Wonders</span><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa6OK8d5AI/AAAAAAAABj0/ksPVshIda4M/s1600-h/2204971279_d2555b95c0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa6OK8d5AI/AAAAAAAABj0/ksPVshIda4M/s320/2204971279_d2555b95c0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230572769856316418" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Megan's makes extraordinary inventions</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa6OIfyhAI/AAAAAAAABj8/Ui6MVwMJqRM/s1600-h/2649640615_e3cf7a1212.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa6OIfyhAI/AAAAAAAABj8/Ui6MVwMJqRM/s320/2649640615_e3cf7a1212.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230572769199162370" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">CrochetDad shows his inventive flair in this topee</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa_ipjgH1I/AAAAAAAABkU/hMIHYWWuk6s/s1600-h/DSCN00080006.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJa_ipjgH1I/AAAAAAAABkU/hMIHYWWuk6s/s320/DSCN00080006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230578619228626770" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">My old hat</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJbBb_TFuoI/AAAAAAAABkc/PQjVJUZ9bts/s1600-h/1809176909_57aa9f41bb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SJbBb_TFuoI/AAAAAAAABkc/PQjVJUZ9bts/s320/1809176909_57aa9f41bb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230580703829539458" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Vaisto in one of her fun hats<br /><br /></span></div>Thanks to all the tapestry crochet artists.<br />They all have so much more on the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/tapestrycrochet/pool/tags/hat/">Flickr Tapestry Crochet group</a> pages.Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-80104291714596769172008-05-18T18:22:00.001-07:002008-05-19T16:11:48.901-07:00TUTORIAL VIDEO<span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Carole Ventura</span> has a <a href="http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/?p=407">Flat Tapestry Crochet Tutorial video</a> on her blog that will help everyone overcome those problems of blurry edges on images.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SDDXkw5jIFI/AAAAAAAABEg/e2gvAkG-C00/s1600-h/deerflattapestrycrochet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SDDXkw5jIFI/AAAAAAAABEg/e2gvAkG-C00/s400/deerflattapestrycrochet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201894596214464594" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);font-size:78%;" >Image courtesy Carole Ventura</span><br /></div><br />Most back & forth flat tapestry crochet looks like the example on the left.<br /><br />How much better the one on the right looks, so neat and precise.<br /><br />Check out this excellent <a href="http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/?p=407">video</a> and practice this technique and you too will never have those wobbly bits to offend the eye in your creations.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">Here's an idea!</span> Say you wanted your animal (in the above example) to have a furry coat, but a sharp head & legs, you could combine the two techniques. This would give an extra dimension to the work.<br /><br />Thanks again Carole, you are the wind under our wings.<br /><br />More of <a href="http://au.youtube.com/tapestrycrochet">Carole's video tutorials on uTube here</a><br /><br />Anu<br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-50205848079650905022008-05-09T22:03:00.000-07:002008-05-11T19:38:07.514-07:00Meet the extraordinary Jenny Love<p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfEsh0Z1Q2KnwPkliq6Zp7_7WpFix8TqInmJ_VNg0bstiXSRZTWtC9SHyBb98StGwgGAV63HFnmzVPWojixBZ5LLehd1uET7BRYG6lLcen61tcxgOOaOMCNS5CVbeePKH9AFqWg6x-wCz/s1600-h/IMG_1260.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198611045333653602" style="width: 422px; height: 323px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfEsh0Z1Q2KnwPkliq6Zp7_7WpFix8TqInmJ_VNg0bstiXSRZTWtC9SHyBb98StGwgGAV63HFnmzVPWojixBZ5LLehd1uET7BRYG6lLcen61tcxgOOaOMCNS5CVbeePKH9AFqWg6x-wCz/s400/IMG_1260.JPG" border="0" height="300" width="517" /></a></p><br /><br /><br /><br />Jenny, an avid Tapestry Crocheter for many, many years, whilst raising 5 or 6 children on her own! is an amazingly bright cheerful soul, whose laugh can be heard whenever she is around.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I first met Jen nearly 30 years ago, when her family was just small and growing. Later when we re-met we discovered that not only were we born in the same year, a few months apart, we were avid tapestry crocheters, ('tho neither of us knew that until recently). Jen used to make Boots, and Back-Packs out of thick rug wool, (don't know how her hands coped with the roughness!), as well as long pointy hats, all with incredible long triangular star type tapestry patterns. I don't know how she found the time with all her kids.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ryVR3z_Y4iwbToV2YFbRTjMBR-ZaiIr_AbG38yQFHmbwbwWfdRHpAonnMK1s7L9P3I7JcYyIDMcfFAH5N-OL3vXvH6ddLV8xoJHJiI1AjN6Snhn1PEgzjACbA9O0CMDCAVtETrr5Nd71/s1600-h/IMG_1224.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198614446947752082" style="width: 240px; height: 184px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ryVR3z_Y4iwbToV2YFbRTjMBR-ZaiIr_AbG38yQFHmbwbwWfdRHpAonnMK1s7L9P3I7JcYyIDMcfFAH5N-OL3vXvH6ddLV8xoJHJiI1AjN6Snhn1PEgzjACbA9O0CMDCAVtETrr5Nd71/s200/IMG_1224.JPG" border="0" height="159" width="213" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmkvX8zGBR-AoALRgp_1dwLzznCD121TPI68gbt8L-YwZx0vT-ULcHFbc8pJBuxZx_HPpfLYt0xthNeSQeb6s8-w7ZGZfLEE9Xp7M2xydr1c1Gj7MWm-nZIGfu-t-8TnU4D1_JEZIWbVJA/s1600-h/IMG_1218.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198614442652784770" style="width: 245px; height: 179px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmkvX8zGBR-AoALRgp_1dwLzznCD121TPI68gbt8L-YwZx0vT-ULcHFbc8pJBuxZx_HPpfLYt0xthNeSQeb6s8-w7ZGZfLEE9Xp7M2xydr1c1Gj7MWm-nZIGfu-t-8TnU4D1_JEZIWbVJA/s200/IMG_1218.JPG" border="0" height="158" width="233" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZnzrYRktRbBYLmsvrG0UyVNYuWqKvCElfpxHkd_kmn-qMNkKLro44QkvAeOt4nh1C1Lhb-igLmeQ0fWb6mAF2tGh5ONyrnaA8HjNJZq9jqjpv0s_ES8nSaHnxvx9UMBPteLED5YdpnLhl/s1600-h/IMG_1216.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198614442652784754" style="width: 235px; height: 157px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZnzrYRktRbBYLmsvrG0UyVNYuWqKvCElfpxHkd_kmn-qMNkKLro44QkvAeOt4nh1C1Lhb-igLmeQ0fWb6mAF2tGh5ONyrnaA8HjNJZq9jqjpv0s_ES8nSaHnxvx9UMBPteLED5YdpnLhl/s200/IMG_1216.JPG" border="0" height="163" width="246" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p>These are photos of some recent works, Skirts, with her Butterfly pattern. Over the years she has made beautiful Belly Dance Tops, using exquisite fine cottons and sparkley yarns, and large mandalas, bags, leggings, Lower-leg Flares, wristlets, and has made a lot in fluoro for the "Doof" crowd. I shall hopefully take more photos of some of her other stuff tomorrow at the market, if she brings some, and post them next week , </p><p>Megan</p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1vfl2RdefEMywP29LgAfuLzxYnEmeJLHzisLPyLnnmqmfplxvx1fS0h2OYsAtB7mB00kJi4fNVlDMPu2W5UGWFqhmq6INaw-J-9PDj6q5VYF1lhdHhC2lM_mEXlHhB2c-3aHb2c5nE4B/s1600-h/IMG_1222.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198656352943659202" style="width: 257px; height: 196px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1vfl2RdefEMywP29LgAfuLzxYnEmeJLHzisLPyLnnmqmfplxvx1fS0h2OYsAtB7mB00kJi4fNVlDMPu2W5UGWFqhmq6INaw-J-9PDj6q5VYF1lhdHhC2lM_mEXlHhB2c-3aHb2c5nE4B/s200/IMG_1222.JPG" border="0" height="172" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpyhY0g2mG-b6BmMHXlGyqqxZyuZxqTzzs2NRgsqD9H0RPhHTMmDgnofykmI3jmK0gcHu7Zoh04RffGE9f2bp-nckYbRAv0dTLHWA-NMWmxZGkPnesX7foGZe4ItoRw_ENEzrv9umi_NL/s1600-h/IMG_1220.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198656348648691890" style="width: 269px; height: 201px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpyhY0g2mG-b6BmMHXlGyqqxZyuZxqTzzs2NRgsqD9H0RPhHTMmDgnofykmI3jmK0gcHu7Zoh04RffGE9f2bp-nckYbRAv0dTLHWA-NMWmxZGkPnesX7foGZe4ItoRw_ENEzrv9umi_NL/s200/IMG_1220.JPG" border="0" height="172" width="232" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE9JX1p86SSViWo4ClqFmy_limTDHCfp8hRPn_2UZxqMI4hIPiMYoYtEClGkzZx4Zw0OWSWauuQg-X1KGst1tvGN-iwE6FGeE6wcKt3n8c3qof3tGwu2vUozDVN5l77vrLbmK20qGdN5pQ/s1600-h/IMG_1213.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198656340058757282" style="width: 257px; height: 191px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE9JX1p86SSViWo4ClqFmy_limTDHCfp8hRPn_2UZxqMI4hIPiMYoYtEClGkzZx4Zw0OWSWauuQg-X1KGst1tvGN-iwE6FGeE6wcKt3n8c3qof3tGwu2vUozDVN5l77vrLbmK20qGdN5pQ/s200/IMG_1213.JPG" border="0" height="163" width="214" /></a>ArtNomadixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050923488100297693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-73644358321663666722008-04-15T18:59:00.001-07:002008-04-15T20:56:35.632-07:00WANDA'S DREAMS<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);font-family:arial;" >DREAMS MADE REAL<br /><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-bFt68I/AAAAAAAAA_o/jeiJOcEVX-k/s1600-h/WandaHat_02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-bFt68I/AAAAAAAAA_o/jeiJOcEVX-k/s400/WandaHat_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189667368224025538" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">Wanda in one of her Wonderful Dreams</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Wanda Blount is extraordinary talent who specializes in creating tapestry crochet high fashion hats. She says she dreams of her creations before she take hook to wool.<br /><br />Carole Ventura has written up Wanda's inspirational story very comprehensively on her <a href="http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/">Tapestry Crochet Blog</a>, so I won't steal her thunder, you can read all about Wanda's crochet there - see also Carole's</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> sidebar links.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Wanda herself has posted a lot of her pix on </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://flickr.com/photos/22429688@N04/">Flickr</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">These wonderful hats are worthy of Paris catwalk fashions in my dreams...<br />....yes I dreamed I saw Naomi Campbell sashaying down the catwalk in Wanda's creations!<br />Maybe this dream will come true for Wanda too!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Whet your appetite </span><span style="font-family:arial;">here with a few of her astonishing beauties:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-bFt67I/AAAAAAAAA_g/fmPj9Gj8WkE/s1600-h/WandaHat_01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-bFt67I/AAAAAAAAA_g/fmPj9Gj8WkE/s400/WandaHat_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189667368224025522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-7Ft6_I/AAAAAAAABAA/sTev85OxcDI/s1600-h/WandaHats_05.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-7Ft6_I/AAAAAAAABAA/sTev85OxcDI/s400/WandaHats_05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189667376813960178" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-rFt69I/AAAAAAAAA_w/2GG5Zr0n5FU/s1600-h/Wanda%27sVest.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-rFt69I/AAAAAAAAA_w/2GG5Zr0n5FU/s400/Wanda%27sVest.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189667372518992850" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-rFt6-I/AAAAAAAAA_4/ExJ7_03-mic/s1600-h/WandaHats_04.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/SAVm-rFt6-I/AAAAAAAAA_4/ExJ7_03-mic/s400/WandaHats_04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189667372518992866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Thank you Wanda for letting me bring your art here.<br /><br />Now I go to dream.....perchance to crochet.....</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Anu</span>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-1785296419364632922008-03-17T18:42:00.000-07:002008-03-17T19:21:58.166-07:00MEET MEG-AN<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98ftyUkfcI/AAAAAAAAA5A/TaAOX199z8w/s1600-h/2297352815_6c0247634e.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98ftyUkfcI/AAAAAAAAA5A/TaAOX199z8w/s400/2297352815_6c0247634e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178892967961984450" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">MEG-AN</span></span></b><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">TAPESTRY ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">IN HER OWN WORDS.</span></span></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98fuSUkfgI/AAAAAAAAA5g/RTViLr3Ycdw/s1600-h/Megan_20.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98fuSUkfgI/AAAAAAAAA5g/RTViLr3Ycdw/s400/Megan_20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178892976551919106" border="0" /></a><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Hi, my name is Meg-an and I make Tapestry Crochet hats. I travel around Australia in a van, setting up </span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >setting up stalls at markets, wherever I may be</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >, to sell my hats and hand-painted clothes.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >You can see a lot of my work <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/artnomadix/sets/72157603754409098/">here on Flickr.</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br /></span></p><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98fuCUkfdI/AAAAAAAAA5I/zXng4YPLKX4/s1600-h/2237232931_0d5e04b124.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98fuCUkfdI/AAAAAAAAA5I/zXng4YPLKX4/s400/2237232931_0d5e04b124.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178892972256951762" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Believe it or not, I have only just learnt that what I've been doing for the past 21 years has the name of Tapestry Crochet!<br /><br />I began crocheting in 1987, having always been an artist, and selling my hand painted clothes at a local market outside Melbourne. The friend who taught me to crochet tiny pouches for crystals, suggested I buy any old pattern from an Opshop, to learn other stitches. This I did, and promptly added a round of treble stitches to the inch & a half of 'crystal pouch', and <i style="">voila!</i> the pouch turned into the top stem point of my first <i style="">'Gumnut Pixie Hat'</i>. I had been drawing them for years!<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >As a 16 yr old I'd proclaimed "<i style="">I'm going to run a hat shop when I grow</i> up". <span style=""> </span>Little did I know what the future would hold for me then!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />I wore my new hat every Saturday at St Andrews Market, in the hills north west of Melbourne, where I sold hand-painted rainbow clothes. Soon friends and customers were asking me to make them a hat like mine. The first few hats were pretty much hit and miss, sometimes having a nice line of increase, some were horrible lumpy-looking “<i style="">things</i>”, yet all were sold. My prices then were very cheap!<br /><br />As I progressed I would gradually raise the price, (by a $1 or $2 !) but until I entered my first "Beanies" in <a href="http://www.beaniefest.org/">The Alice Springs Beanie Festival's competition</a>, and my partner said "<i style="">Put proper prices on them. Work out how long they took to make....</i>" etc . I was always grossly under-pricing them. Not only under-selling my own work I was down-pricing other artisans work too. Now I value my work for its’ unique individuality.<br /><br />I know it's hard to compete with the mass produced and slave labor work from third world countries, but as I have found, there are people out there who really do value the one-off original pieces, and are prepared to pay their real worth.<br /><br />When I start a new hat, I don't know how it will turn out. Some commissions have taken three hats to actually make “<i style="">The One</i>”. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />After a break from crocheting, which always seems to happen when it gets too humid, I wind myself up for new work, by winding my new wool into balls, from the spinners’ hanks . It really gets me ready to work as I sort the lovely round balls into baskets of each colour and I get inspired. It's great to be able to select a new range of colours from the assorted baskets, collecting them into a smaller work basket. Then begin and watch the new designs appear as if by magic. I love watching the hat grow out of strands of yarn.<br /><br />Each hat tends to get associated with an individual Number as in Numerology, all by chance as I bring in various patterns. For example, a simple triangular pattern can be short or long, depending on how many stitches you make between the two colours on the first round, I never count out how many will fit in beforehand, and am constantly amazed when I return to the start to find it numbers in perfectly. This then sets the number of points to count.<span style=""> </span>As in Numerology you can always change and add other such Numbers into your designs of course.<br /><br />In 2001 I thought I had to stop crocheting and painting clothes, when my right arm seized up into constant spasm, twice the year before. Very painful, the first time I was walking round with my arm stretched up and out in front to ease the pain. Went on for 6 weeks the first time, the next episode I received better treatment and it eased much sooner. But I still gave up crocheting for a whole year, thinking that might be causing it. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />But it's not the fault of the crocheting, it's the way the crocheter holds her head! Now when I get numb hands, I just do some neck exercises, keeping my hands and crocheting as they were, and the numbness goes away.<br /><br />It was really wonderful to learn about the <a href="http://www.beaniefest.org/">Alice Springs Beanie Festival</a> in 2003, being a crocheter of hats, with only a few other items made, it was a beanie Hat Maker’s Dream. They have a Competition section exhibited in a major gallery in the Araluen Arts and Cultural Precinct, in Alice Springs, Central Australia, along with what is called Beanie Central, held over the festival weekend in an adjoining venue, “<i style="">Witchetty's</i>” . <a href="http://www.beaniefest.org/">A traveling exhibition of outstanding beanies</a>, purchased or lent, from the first 10 years of the Festival is traveling round the larger Australian galleries.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />The competition really gets me going each year now, with the different categories. The first year I entered I had no idea what the festival or standard of hats was like at all. A fellow beanie-maker told me about it, and with just enough time to return to my mother's shed, (where most of my yarn was 'stashed' whilst living in a small camper-van), I quickly got to work and sent it off.<br /><br />Seeing <i style="">Flora and Fauna</i> as a category, I chose to try and make another '<i style="">Emu</i>' (large Australian bird) design like one I'd made back in the '90's,after being commissioned to make one like a South American Llama or Alpaca. I did, and with my increased experience, made a much better emu, and it won the Flora and Fauna category.</span></p><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98fuSUkfeI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/P99bcRV6JAo/s1600-h/2298171640_0a333b4753.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98fuSUkfeI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/P99bcRV6JAo/s400/2298171640_0a333b4753.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178892976551919074" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of my Emu beanies</span><br /></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" > This Emu hat sold for AU$225!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />These were the first hats where I'd put such prices on and had to take a deep breath before writing the prices and sending them off. I couldn't have stood behind a market stall and listened to peoples re-actions to such prices , it was much easier to send them elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />I was surprised that they did sell, and still had no real idea what the Beaniefest was like. I thought I was on to something with the Australiana themes, so the following year I did a whole collection of Sunset Silhouettes, Emus, Kangaroos and Echidnas. I was delighted as they sold for top dollar. I now have a range of totally unique pieces hats , some highly priced, some less so. They are all individually unique, but similar to the originals in that Australian Series.<br /><br />That year I was lucky again, and won the “<i style="">Spirit of the Land</i>” category, with the fourth for my Sunset Silhouette series, "<i style="">Follow the Sun</i>". <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />The next year, my first "<i style="">Emu</i>" with a long neck and dangling earflap legs, was awarded a Special Mention in the "<i style="">New and Innovative</i>" category. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />Then in 2005 my third "emu" hat, a needle-felted emu that wasn't quite working to plan, and was turned inside-out and embellished a lot, aiming for the “<i style="">Best Use of Embellishment</i>" category, was Awarded a Special Mention for the "<i style="">Mad Hatters</i>" .<br /><br />It is quite hard for me to repeat some styles from the past , as I either don't have that wool any more or I can't bring myself to use just plain, non acrylic, fluffy yarns, that I can't resist these days. Years ago I never used anything acrylic, but the new yarns weren't available then, were they!<br /><br />Two years ago I was commissioned to make a newborn sized "<i style="">Temple Top</i>" for a yet unconceived baby, a style selected from my photo album, from a series of hats I'd made in 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />Not having made any of that design for five or six years, when I began it rapidly grew far too large for a new-born, with the temple pillars pattern I'd begun. Halfway thru, I stopped and took stock of my work, and thought:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >"<i style="">Yuk! its horrible, it's bulging out on one side, I don't like the choice of colours at the top, but I do like this Blue and Orange combo here in what will be the middle. <span style=""> </span>What if I ..hmm...... pinch it in together here ......... and, yes... extend the blue into loops .... I could hang beads and stones from them ....now..... continue the brim down ..... but ,ah!... I think I'll stop it short right here ......... Wow .... I've created a new design !</i> “<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />I later called this new hat the "<i style="">Jackaranda Crown</i>", and I kept that first one as my new personal beanie. <span style=""> </span>I have continued making a series of '<i style="">Crowns</i>', all quite different to each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />I have yet to start work on my competition entries for the 2008 festival, but I have lots of ideas, and will get to work very soon, that is as soon as I can stop Flickr-surfing thru all the photos of everyone's wonderful work. LOL.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><br />I'm so glad I've finally taught myself to use this computer, and found Flickr and then found all you wonderful crochet artists, and been reminded about Etsy.com, which I joined back in Apri '07, but living life as a nomad, travelling <span style=""> </span>Australia, didn't allow for enough time to learn the on-line stuff, or actually be on-line every day.<o:p></o:p><span style=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><span style=""></span>Soon I'll get to open my Etsy shop, but I need a new digital camera as my first one has seized up.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Hope you enjoy my work as much as I do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Happy creating<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" >Meg-an.</span></p><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98fuSUkffI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/1xsj-DcJkYI/s1600-h/Anu_Megan_14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R98fuSUkffI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/1xsj-DcJkYI/s400/Anu_Megan_14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178892976551919090" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meeting Meg-an.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Anu & Meg-an meet at the Buddha Belly, Mt. Warning<br />160308<br /></span></div><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-24784550223321901912008-01-26T14:47:00.000-08:002008-01-26T15:05:56.484-08:00Stacey's Tapestry Crochet Mandalas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R5u6BQ599uI/AAAAAAAAApo/bpVe44ArWPw/s1600-h/staceyglasgow.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/R5u6BQ599uI/AAAAAAAAApo/bpVe44ArWPw/s400/staceyglasgow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159922328963774178" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Stacey Glasgow with examples of her extraordinary prize winning<br />tapestry crochet mandalas. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />These are so inspiring I just had to add them here for us all.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Go </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/?p=328">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> for Carole Ventura's full story of Stacey's work , with lots more pix and the links to her Yahoo site.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">So many talented artists love to work in this medium of Tapestry Crochet.<br />Go to the Flickr Tapestry Crochet Group link on sidebar to see many beautiful examples of this interesting yarnwork style.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Happy crochet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Anu.</span>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-15910139000229740462007-10-27T07:53:00.000-07:002007-10-27T07:59:20.180-07:00Tapestry Crochet from Turkey<span style="font-family: arial;">Another extraordinary page of Tapestry Crochet came from the Carole Ventura link today. It is a MUST SEE.<br /><br />Go to http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/?p=189 to view the work of Tapestry Crochet artists from Turkey. </span>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-76558208771375958262007-10-21T16:14:00.000-07:002007-10-21T16:18:16.134-07:00Now we are Two!<span style="font-family: arial;">Welcome </span><span class="dReadMsgHeaderSender"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hanni. Let's make beautiful tapestry crochet sing!</span><br /></span>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-16213140485365916342007-10-20T14:38:00.000-07:002007-10-20T15:36:32.160-07:00Come share the bubbly.<span style="font-family:arial;">Nice venue, but where are the guests?<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);font-family:arial;" >Have you ever had a party, but nobody turned up? Happened to a friend of mine once. He made the house look wonderful, put out great refreshments, brought in a band, lighting and even set up a fountain, bubbling & spotlit with pretty colors, in the entrance.<br />But everybody had gone to a festival over by the beach. So he opened the French champers & sat watching the fountain...but hey...they all rolled in around 1 am by which time he was a very merry host indeed and it became an all night rave.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />This is feeling a bit like that. I hope the other tapestry crochet <span style="font-style: italic;">aficionados </span>get here soon.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">Vibrant talent from Finland.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Meanwhile I'll share this bit from the Carol Ventura archives, sent to me by Google FeedBlitz, about the beautiful precise work of <a href="http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/?cat=9">Maarit Aalto</a> from Finland. If you read it and follow the links you'll find your work can become as precise as hers. My own work is a case in point. From now on I'll be working her way and creating clear and precise images.<br /><br />Also today a new <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/548958@N22/">Flickr Tapestry Crochet Group</a> member<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8836887@N08/sets/72157600329448660/"> me si</a>, also from Finland, arrived with her vibrant hats. Must be something to do with the northern lights!<br /><br />Hope you'll join me here soon, a party of one is very limited fun.<br /><br />.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-37886429107293099822007-10-10T16:07:00.000-07:002007-10-10T16:12:39.333-07:00THIS SITE IS A WIP - All help welcomed.<span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Site still being sorted. If you want to become a member or help me make this a great site for us all, email me at:<br /><br />http://goldilocks_s3i@hotmail.com/<br /><br />and I'll work out how to add you to the Members Roll etc.<br /><br />H..E...L...P...!!<br /></span>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2529236392962467368.post-87305590442386077132007-10-10T05:00:00.000-07:002007-10-18T16:03:52.866-07:00TAPESTRY CROCHET<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/RwzBf34pBdI/AAAAAAAAALc/sxpPwb9qTdE/s1600-h/DSCN01560140.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_cjtgdGDg0KE/RwzBf34pBdI/AAAAAAAAALc/sxpPwb9qTdE/s320/DSCN01560140.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119679629735036370" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);font-family:arial;" >My Tapestry Crochet Celtic sunwheel hat</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;">Welcome to the inaugural post of this new open blog for all interested in sharing their tapestry crochet creations.<br /><br />I'm linking it through to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/tapestrycrochet/">Flickr Tapestry Crochet group</a> where the gallery of pix can be viewed.<br /><br />As I'm new to this blog hosting I'm hoping to get lots of help from seasoned blog users as to how best to manage getting members on board, creating beautiful banners and so on.<br /><br />Any clues for starters?<br /><br />Please email me if you are interested in joining in this blog and contributing.<br /><br />Hoping this blog thrives and all who join help to make it fun and instructive.<br /><br />Anu.<br /><br /><br /></span>Anuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14800209220658169159noreply@blogger.com1