The first step in making a wall hanging is threading the dowel with the base strings. Because DMC thread is so thin, I’m able to use kitchen skewers cut down to a shorter length. The pattern I’ve created is 24 strings wide, so I cut twenty-four individual strings and folded them in half to make […]
Art Process: Kayla Eddy Part 2
For this project, I’m working on creating my own pattern rather than following one that someone else designed, which is what I often do. When I started working on this, I knew I wanted to try and base my own design off of something from New York, and so I went back through some photographs […]
Art Process: Kayla Eddy Part 1
For the month of January, we are interviewing UW-Parkside student Kayla Eddy about her knotting work. I picked up the hobby of knotting/bracelet-making during the pandemic. I was stuck in my dorm room at school, and I wanted something to pass the time. As it happened, I had packed some string and started teaching myself […]
Podcast The Pub 52: Robots Don’t Have Tails
In this episode, we review C. Robert Cargill’s novel, Sea of Rust. Sarah dresses as a robot cowboy and rides her trusty, rusty (literally) steed to the show. Daniel realizes that he is bound by his original brainwork design. Trey reads a paragraph and the rest of the casts dreams of cotton candy and maple […]