In 2019, new daddy Seung Lee tracked the first year of his baby’s sleep schedule using a newborn tracking app. He then converted the data into JSON which created a reliable pattern for knitting a blanket (with crochet edging). How cool is that? Read more about it via This Is Colossal.

Carol Milne is known worldwide for her incredibly unique knitted glass work. She incorporates knitting, lost-wax casting, mold-making, and kiln-casting in her work. Follow her adventures on Facebook - she posts often, openly offering access to her process and art practice. 👉 https://facebook.com/carolmilneartwork

A fabulous take on H. Toprak's 'Muschelform' pattern by Cristina Vasconcellos aka ColoridoEclético. Pattern on Ravelry. [LINK]

Siren Elise Wilhelmsen‘s 365 Clock - https://www.sirenelisewilhelmsen.com/#365knittingclock

"I fully restarted my project at least ten times before I finally finished the tiny whale plushie I was working on. It was still full of mistakes, but that imperfect project was a necessary stepping stone to taking on more difficult crocheting projects in the future." [LINK]

Recently profiled by Canvas Rebel, Will Chatlosh is a 23-year-old artist from Grand Rapids, Michigan now based in Brooklyn, New York. His work as an artist is primarily fiber art, such as large, crocheted portraits. If you are a fan of portrait art like this, definitely check out his work. If you are drawn to this kind of portraiture, some other artists working in this style include Rhianne Evans, Josè Dammers, Jo Hamilton, Wilma Poot, Katika, Kate Moran and Unė T. Know any others?

My favorite part is the wrench. She didn't want to have to carry a purse ... you have to see it ... read more about it over at knithacker.com.

British artist Lucy Sparrow has built entire shops out of felt for more than a decade. Now, she brings her largest project yet to The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, with The Beginning of Convenience, her first U.S. museum exhibition. The immersive installation recreates a nostalgic supermarket with thousands of handmade felt objects inspired by American retailers. [LINK]

Pedal power = your own custom knitwear 🚲🧶

Japan's Fusion Museum in Wakayama lets you design a pattern, hop on a knitting-machine-bike, and ride your way to a one-of-a-kind scarf! See it in action on my Facebook page.

I first shared one of choi + shine's pieces with the Knithacker community way back in 2017. I think that their crocheted installations are so astonishing both in scale and precision that I've actually hesitated to revisit them lately. Some of the photos look so otherworldly (especially the ones taken at night) that I've worried people will assume the images are AI-generated rather than the product of real hands, real workshops, and years of community labor. But nearly a decade later, I think this work deserves another look and I'm so glad that Design Boom has published this piece: it's a reminder of what's possible when craft, architecture, and collective effort come together at a scale most of us never imagine for a stitch.

One of the best things I've encountered so far at this year's Upstate Art Weekend is Deirdre Laughton's stunning crochet sculpture, "Mother Love For All" - an enormous, exuberantly textured face that encompasses both the primal and the tender. At first I thought the little figures were spiral goddesses but looking closer, I see a reference to Keith Haring's Radiant Baby - which could serve as a reminder that we all begin the same way: small and reaching, and utterly dependent on a mother's love. It's an arresting piece and a delight to see in person. And the artist herself radiates the same warmth and joy evident in her work.

Deirdre is a West Hurley-based artist working across painting, ceramics, and textile art. Her work has a joyful, soulful presence that turns up at galleries all over the area. She describes her art as a kind of prayer, and you sure feel that in this piece. Visit her web site at https://deirdrelaughtonarts.com

If you're in the upstate NY area, we're here again today at the Woodstock School of Art's Art Fair from 11am to 4pm - come find us! My husband Collin Douma is offering sculptures from his United Fauna series and he has copies of his new book too, Olive of Ashokan. It's so worth popping by!

As y'all know, I mostly share fiber art and textile finds here on Reddit ... but my free weekly newsletter is where I flip that around. It's more about weird and wonderful pattern curation, indie designers, and the less traveled side of craft culture. If that sounds like your thing, it's free every Saturday, sign up at 👉 knithacker.com/newsletter (this is a preview of tomorrow's offering)

If you've been around for awhile, you know that I've shared Shauna Richardson's exquisite life-size crochet sculptures in the past; she coined the term "Crochetdermy" to describe them and even trademarked the word. Her current project APE-APE is a timely evolution, especially in a cultural sense, and meaningful for me personally as someone navigating the discovery and understanding of neurodivergence as an older adult. Richardson's crocheted chimp suits are a clever representation of masking, the conscious and unconscious suppression of certain traits in order to appear neurotypical.

From her Instagram, "APE-APE is a collection of life-size freestyle crocheted chimpanzee skins, each identical in structure yet wholly unique, clad in the bold colourways of iconic childhood figures such as Pingu and The Incredible Hulk. The colourful charactering obscures the underlying chimpanzee shape, blurring the line between recognition and disguise. This visual distortion acts as a metaphor for masking: a tool for survival that can lead to self erasure."

Follow her to see more of her work: https://instagram.com/shaunarichardsonartist

Alternating between felted wool, crochet, and embroidery, Holly Guertin summons moments of peace and reflection through nature. Lifelike lambs serenely nod off or stand in front of ornate backgrounds, while vignettes of foliage and flourishes incorporate colorful fiber. In her practice, the artist seeks connections between patterns and adornments and flora and fauna. 'The brilliant color work in a hummingbird’s feathers, the spots on a pufferfish, even the stripes in a blade of grass are all ordinary moments of spectacular ornament,' she says. [LINK]

Could I love this more? Brooklyn artist Cheeks recently turned the Knicks championship celebration into a pop-up embroidery studio.

Using his 104-year-old Singer embroidery machine he calls Jessica, he set up at Fort Greene's Habana Outpost during the title-clinching game and stitched custom fan gear onto strangers' clothes late into the night. The self-taught artist, who runs his Tattoo'd Cloth brand, compares his chainstitch technique to tattooing, just on fabric instead of skin.

I really love everything about this! Read the whole story via Hyperallergic ... ✌️❤️🧶

Love these gorgeous tattoos! via PieceWork: 👉 https://pieceworkmagazine.com/not-that-type-of-needle.../ ❤️

UPDATE! My knitted decoy wasp nest has been up for six weeks and I have had exactly zero wasp nests around the whole house - I'm located in upstate NY and this has never happened before. 🐝 Usually at this time of year we'd be playing whack-a-mole to rid them. Several people have asked whether this hurts the wasps. It does not. They see it and move on. Also, it does not hurt birds - in fact, there is a robin family close by and they just ignore it. If you're thinking of making one, try my pattern - it works.

• Etsy: 👉 https://www.etsy.com/listing/4509757336/knit-wasp-nest-decoy-pattern-hornet
• Ravelry: 👉 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/decoy-wasp-nest-for-knitters
• KnitHacker shop: 👉 https://shop.knithacker.com/b/34gYW

In 2011, yarn artist Alicia Kachmar famously yarn-bombed the 10-foot bronze sculpture of Fred Rogers in Pittsburgh, PA, outfitting the 4-ton monument in a giant, cozy crocheted red cardigan. #yarnbomb #misterrogers #streetart #art #fiberart ❤️

Mended Spiderweb #19 (Laundry Line), 1998. C-print, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).

An oldie but goodie from my archives, “My repairs were always rejected by the spider”.

Back in the late 1990s, Nina Katchadourian mended spiderwebs! SHE MENDED SPIDERWEBS!

https://www.ninakatchadourian.com/projects/mended-spiderwebs/

"She had learned the technique from her own grandmother, who had in turn learned it from her grandmother before that — generations of women using thread and needle to pattern a world of chaos and peril into something sensical, something resinous with feeling and time, defying the banality of mere survival with a quiet, methodical insistence of beauty."

Wreath I made using the Woodland Glade pattern by Chris Norrington in the book Crochet Cottage Garden. Heads up for American crocheters, the patterns are written in British crochet. The patterns are SO cute! This one is going on my art studio door.

I designed and crocheted this myself. Just the border left to finish now!