I’m in love with the fact that there is a knitting vogue and a mystery novel dedicated to knitting. I absolutely adore that in Harry Potter, they reference knitting more than three times. The old lady with the knitting tattoo is absolutely my hero. And of course I only wish my town had a knitathon like they had in Gilmore Girls.
This summer I will be hosting a knitting club with some senior citizens and I am completely stoked. Old ladies at church always swarm around me when I knit, dumbfounded that a teenager is knitting. I love it.
A very expressive type of art that I learned at an art camp is altered books. You take an old book that the library was planning to recycle and draw in it and kind of make it like an artistic journal. One of my teachers called it "art masturbation" because it is completely for you. Not the most eloquent way of putting it but glitter is also considered "the herpes" of arts supplies because it will never go away. Needless to say there is no filter when it comes to art. We tell it like it is.
(I collaged drawings and doodles I had done in class, along with cut outs of this vintage wallpaper)
(I drew the tree in the book and used cut outs from the vintage wallpaper, along with spray painting over lace for the background.)
(I spray painted over lace on the left side and left the pictures of the old cowboys. The book I used was an old western history book. On the right I used old pictures from when I was little laid on top of red tissue paper.)
