Blogpick: A rug on her loom

I'm impressed with the scale and practicality of this project. Needing a carpet for the upstairs hall, Yarnspider thought "Why buy new carpet when we could have something more personal and cosy instead?"

It looks beautiful so far and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished item.

http://yarnspider.blogspot.com/2010/07/and-so-to-rug-on-my-loom.html

Making time tangible

A while ago I featured automatic knitting in the shape of a knitting lampshade and wind-powered knitting and here's another project along similar lines. This design seeks to make time a tangible, physical thing.

German designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen exhibited her 365 knitting clock at DMY International Design Festival Berlin. The circular knitting machine with 48 needles moves clockwise and after one year creates a scarf two meters long.

http://design-milk.com/365-clock-by-siren-elise-wilhelmsen/

Stitch Yourself

A collaborative work, in which hundreds of people from around the world made stitched selves, has been on display for one night only at the Science Museum.

the Stitch Yourself exhibit was on display in the main Energy Hall on 30 June 2010.

The gathering of little people included a flasher and a lady busy knitting her own head.

StitchLondon's blog post about the event is here
http://stitchandbitchlondon.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/stitch-yourself-night/

Pictures of all of the 259 mini-me's will feature with backstories on StitchLondon's Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38202796@N06/sets/72157624280938971/

and the Flickr group pool for the event is here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/stitchlondon/pool/