The Bomb



Yay, I put a new pattern up, and its free! More explosive knitting!
It is a simple pattern, starting with the bomb itself. This is knitted in the round from the top down, with paired increases, a straight section and then paired decreases. The bomb-top is knitted in a similar way but as a flat disk, then sewn in place. The fuse and sparks are worked in I-cord and then sewn together.

Finished size: 5”/13cm diameter
Yarn: The pattern is written for a worsted/aran weight yarn, but gauge is not important – you could use any size yarn. The important thing is to use needles a size smaller than normal. This means the stuffing won’t show through.
Worsted weight yarn in black (60yds/50m), white (6yds/6m), yellow (4yds/4m), orange (4yds/4m) and red (4yds/4m).
I used Lamb’s Pride Worsted in M-05 Onyx, M-10 Cream, M-155 Lemon Drop, M-110 Orange You Glad and M-107 Red Hot Passion.

Other materials: 4.5mm/UK/US Size 7 dpns, Stitch marker, Yarn needle, Stuffing
Gauge: 20 sts and 26 rows to 4”/10cm in stocking st on 4.5mm/Size 7 needles
Its free to download. You can download it here:
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or go here for the Ravelry page for the pattern and download it from there.
Enjoy!

Hunter's Moon Festival Call for Submissions

The talented and lovely Willy and Natalia are organising a music and art festival in Carrick-on-Shannon this October, lots of details here. I am co-curating the art side of things. We will be organising an art trail around town, with a larger space as a festival box-office and gallery. Here is the call-out below for all you arty creative types!

Hunter’s Moon Festival, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim October 28-30th 2011 promises to be a weekend of music, art and film. Performers include Tony Conrad, Blood Stereo, Circulus and Sharron Kraus.

The Festival invites artists from ALL disciplines (large/small outdoor work, sound installations and performance work very welcome) to submit proposals of existing or new work. Selected work will be included in an Art Trail throughout Carrick on Shannon. This art trail will take place in vacant shops and shop fronts in the town, a pop up gallery and The Dock Arts Centre.

Hunter’s Moon is the name for the full moon which falls in October, the light of which helped hunters to track and kill their prey. We are looking for work which reflects this theme – darkness, moonlight, hunting, flesh…The Sinister.

Applicants must be available to deliver and install their work during the week prior to the festival and to collect work on Monday/Tuesday afterwards. Any work sold will be charged a commission of 10%. Artists will be in charge of the transport, installation and deinstallation of their work. There will be a ten Euro fee for artists who are accepted – this will go towards the cost of invigilation but will be waived for any artists willing and able to volunteer time to invigilate.

Applicants must submit proposals by email to: huntersmoonart at gmail.com
Applications must be accompanied by a short artist’s statement, proposal of intended work/s with photographs where applicable, and examples of recent work – this can be image attachments up to 1KB or links to a website or blog and must be clearly labeled.

Throughout the duration of the festival a craft market will be in operation. There are a limited amount of stalls available to artists/craftspersons to sell their wares from. Interested parties can send their details to the same email.

We look forward to hearing from you. Please let us know if you need anything clarified: huntersmoonart at gmail.com

Submission deadline: 1st September 2011

Memento Mori

We have an exhibition coming up in the Roscommon Arts Centre next week, and I have been busy making work for it, including this giant felted barbed wire.
I have been wanting to make this piece for ages now so its been good to finally get around to it. You may have noticed my penchant for making weapons and artifacts of war and violence out of textiles before. (...and if you haven't then you really haven't been paying attention.)
It even works on horses.

Details of the exhibition are here, and all are welcome to the opening next Wednesday between 5-6.30pm.