Kate Jenkins has been designing and making knitwear with her company Cardigan Ltd for over twelve years.
In addition to a collection of wearable wool, is an exciting and surprising range of Comfort Food.
Plates lovingly hand made of lambswool are adorned with bangers and mash, pizza, eggs and bacon, and fish and chips!
Fish and Stitches at Castor and Pollux coincides with Brighton and Hove's annual Food and Drink Festival, the organisers of which, not surprisingly, chose to use Kate's fish and chips for their publicity around the country.
You can see all these fish and chip dishes at the beach front gallery from the 30th August. Contact april@castorandpollux.co.uk for an invitation to the private view on the 29th.
http://www.brightonfoodfestival.co.uk/index.php
http://www.cardigan.ltd.uk/index.php?s1=1
http://www.castorandpollux.co.uk/
Saturday, 16 August 2008
Fish and Stitiches - Kate Jenkins at Castor and Pollux
Monday, 9 June 2008
Felieke Van Der Leest- Amazing jeweller
I LOVE Felieke Van Der Leest!! I LOVE her work!! I would LOVE to inhabit her world!!! (or, at least own some of it).
I find her creations inspirational, funny and incredible. I will let her amazing jewellery and objects speak for themselves.
To quote her website....
Don't ask me why I do what I do...
Don't ask me how I come up with the things I come up with...
Don't ask me where it's coming from and what it means...
Because I don't know that much...
What I do know is...
That you can't get pregnant from a spermheart...
That even a sheep can get red ears...
And that some cockroaches like to dress up as an aphid or a ladybug...
http://www.feliekevanderleest.com/gallery/sieraden.php?l=e for lots more
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Artists Open Houses - Cardigan In Bloom
Kate Jenkins from Cardigan has transformed her Workshop Studio/Shop into a knitted and crocheted garden. With knitted flowers, animals and birds. All the items in the exhibition can be worn as brooches, scarves, necklaces etc.
Crochet butterflys and bugs.
Crochet birds
Cardigan's wraps and scarves.
Monday, 17 March 2008
Etsy Shop of the Week - Gooseflesh
We seem to be on a crochet theme at the moment - what seems to be good is that so many people are using crochet in original, discrete and innovative ways. . Gooseflesh is the Etsy site of Sydney Australian based artist Helle Jorgensen. Helle's etsy site sells crochet pendants and bracelets - mostly of corals and marine themes from the seas north of Sydney.
It is highly illegal these days to collect corals, even dead corals off the beach. So Helle's work is an amazing and original (and more colourful) alternative to found corals.
In addition the etsy shop Helle has a blog where she documents her lastest work - coral gardens and large plastic crochet creations, beach finds, sketches, embroideries and fascinating pictures.
Helle is crocheting a huge 'rubbish vortex' from discarded plastic bags for the Institute For Figuring - who, amongst other things, uses crochet to realise theoretical geometrical shapes. The IFF are exhibiting a coral exhibition in April in New York with the Rubbish Vortex. Website fascinating.
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Etsy Shop of the Week - Irregular expressions
This etsy shop Irregular expressions is nominated by Sarah who has been working with crochet a little in her dolls as well as crocheting Japanese Amigurumi and other things.
Irregular expressions produce beautiful and unique necklaces, cuffs, brooches, bracelets and other items from freeform crochet, found objects and buttons and beads.
I don't know the name of the artist but she is from Istanbul, a mother and is inspired from nature, traditional Turkish arts, crafts and freeform fiber artists. All the work is one-off.
Since posting this I got a message from Ayesegul giving more information about her mother.
'All creations belong to my mother. She is a retired teacher. She work in a totally improvisational way. She starts with an idea, then she tries new techniques and colors until she is satisfied with the piece. She constantly does, undoes, redoes, at the end she ends up with something she loves, something very different and unique. And her motivation and energy come from generous compliments like yours. '
