Show It Off!

[Heather Skowood]

Give a shout! Who you are, what materials you are drawn to + photos!!!

[Alison Bailey Smith]

The first one I made took 3 months and is in the National museums of Scotland. Now I can do one in about 3 days, that doesn't include the time it takes to take a TV to pieces, it is about one tv per hat

[Alison Bailey Smith]

Oh yes and it is irregular in a regular kind of way. It is a blanket or buttonhole stitch but when I get bored I add a twist or change direction.

[Stevie B.]

Wow! 3 months. Did you do it in front of another TV ? :P

On a side note--Do they still have a TV tax in the UK?

[Alison Bailey Smith]

Just listen, very frustrating at the moment because I can't do it and watch Wallander as it is in Swedish. Yes, still TV licence here, I can't complain thought cos my brother is a sound engineer for them!

It is my brother's fault I got into this, he handed me a coil from a radio and said you are an arts student make something from this, my Dad (a physist and elctronics whizz) then said there was more wire in a TV.

But a lot of it comes from having parents brought after the war who don't get rid of much if it is usable. So my studio it is debatable what is materials in the raw and what is genuine trash

[Heather Skowood]

ahhh the tv license guy! I gave him a proper yellin' at for harassing us several times, knowing we did NOT have a TV. Plus made me think of "The Young Ones" when Vivian ate the TV when the license guy came around! hehehe...3 months to 3 days is pretty amazing!

[Heather Skowood]

nice post indeed, thanx for sharing!

[Alison Bailey Smith]

Just had a wee look, interesting because I am working on a rag rug project funded by a local housing association. The tenants have donated clothes with memories (wedding dresses, ties from campaigns etc) and have joined me to create a rag rug of all these donated clothes. I have also added fabrics from a local charity shop and curtain shop that were donated to me for a previous project. The rug is of a house and is finally coming together as I type. But it has been an enlightening project to have insight it to these women's lives and my friend's who have helped me. Needless to say as much chatting has gone on as stitching. Memories and friendships created and remembered as we have gone along.
http://abscraft.blogspot.com/

[Heather Skowood]

That is an amazing project! Oh the stories you are absorbing must make it all soooo perfect. Nice blog, I've added it to my blog roll at www.heatherskowoodjewelry.blogspot.com

[Cynthia Del Giudice]

These are some samples of pieces I make using recycled plastic grocery bags.

[Miriam Rowe]

This is a series of rings made out of discarded crayon fragments. Because I used crayons that had been mostly used and then discarded, I ended up doing a lot of color mixing with the fragments so I could get substantial bands of color. More rings from this series can be found on my profile page- thanks for looking!

[Jessica Beels]

Here are two necklaces I made from plastic shopping bags. The flowers are painted and cut up, part of a series I did a few years ago. The black and metallic one is made from 12 layers of fused bags, folded and re-fused to make bead-like shapes. It is one of my contributions to the Beyond Garbage Project - a blog I started in November to encourage artists and other interested folks to find interesting ways to reuse materials and have fun exploring the artistic possibilities of garbage.

[Alison Bailey Smith]

Hello Jessica, loved your work but tried to go to the link and found nothing relevant. Could you post it again? It went to a page of advertisers.