Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in craft, photographs, tutorial on Mar 9th, 2006
Of ‘full, woolly, activity-unfriendly thumbs’ in knitted mittens, Tanya Ewing at Moose on the Loose says ‘Quite frankly I won’t use them.’ Quite right! Tanya has the all-important recipe for how to put a flip top in your thumb on her page of knitting patterns, Homegrown recipes for woolly items, which also includes a simple [...]
Posted in art, craft, creatures, make, sculpture, visual art on Feb 4th, 2006
I love the look of the sculptures that the Finnish visual artist Oona Tikkaoja makes, in particular her wolf creature and lizard robot killer. They are soft sculpture.
I also think her wooden horses are spectacular. They are beautifully jointed, and immediately conjure up thoughts of the mythical Trojan Horse. Take a look at the [...]
This scrawny but fierce little goblin is my submission for Loobylu’s October Month of Softies theme, “All Hallow’s Hysteria”. He’s only about 5 inches tall, and made on the run. There are two more photos in my Flickr Softies set.
Rebound Designs takes old books and turns them into bags. I’m not a handbag user, so in a practical sense they are lost on me, but they are really cool. I took a spin past a couple of the op shops the other day, and came home with a few books to experiment with. Maybe [...]
Kath at red current has been blogging about the Craft & Quilt Fair held last weekend, and mentioned really liking a quilt made by Alison Horridge. Here are pictures of three more of Alison’s quilts.
This is beautiful.Thanks so much, Mimi. I also love this new one. What is it with me and insects at the moment?
This is my submission for Loobylu’s July’s Month of Softies, a sock monkey. I’ve been curious about sock monkeys since first reading about the tradition a year or two ago, so I’m glad to have tried it out. This one started out plain and ugly, and I nearly abandoned him altogether, but I kept going [...]
Posted in craft, make, mask, materials, portfolio on Jun 30th, 2005
Dave Riley is a mask-maker, puppeteer and playwright based in Brisbane. His Mask Studio tutorials have been of great help to me a number of times - thanks Dave! There are two mask tutorials:
Easy mask making using cheap plastic originals (creating a serviceable neutral mask from a cheap plastic model, and then making it into [...]
Posted in craft, creatures, fun, make, puppetry, puppets on Jun 29th, 2005
You know you are either going loopy, or your new creation has charm, or possibly both, when you find yourself taking it from room to room with you around the house, or with you in the car while driving errands. Especially when its a computer bug. And we won’t mention talking to it.
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After making a couple of recycled creatures a few months ago, I’ve become a bit obsessed with the idea, and have been haunting the local op shops and trash and treasure markets, looking for suitably interesting bags and belts. I’ve now got far more than I have had time to make up! One side effect [...]