Not long to go now, Desire Lines is opening in just over two weeks at Artstation on Auckland’s Ponsonby Road…

Curated by: Jill Segedin
Artists include: Marion Bawdon, Angela Carter, Susie Crow, Amanda Levey with Rachel Grimwood, Zoë Nash, Becky Nunes, Lyneemaree Patterson and Caroline Powley.

21 July to 7 August 2010
Opening: 5 to 7pm, Tuesday 20 July 2010

The term desire lines refers to lines (traces, tracks and pathways) that show where individuals choose to travel, which might challenge the officially established routes (Bachelard, 1994). Lines of desire can form for many different reasons – perhaps for expediency, efficiency or due to laziness (short cuts) or as challenge and subversion or habit and for fun. Arguably an artwork is or at least can be such a trace or a path. It develops and reveals a preferred or chanced upon navigation of materials, space and ideas, and accommodate subjectivity, spontaneity, intuition, process and expression.

Marion Bawdon, Holding on to nothing (Detail) 2010.

Marion Bawdon, Catch me when I fall (Detail) 2010.

Becky Nunes run, repeat, 2010.

I’m just so excited about this one, the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project is at Auckland Museum right now!  This afternoon I dropped in to do some work with the lovely ladies busily hooking away and spreading the stitchy love.  I brought in with me the little one above, I had finished it off today and couldn’t wait to see how the project was growing.

So if you are even slightly crafty and nerdy, or into maths or art, or craftsy community projects, or the environment and ecology (that should actually be all of you) best you get yourself along to the Auckland Museum over the next few weeks to have a look at the crochet coral reef that is growing on a wall in the oceans gallery.  Better yet, take your crochet hook and some fibre and get making!

For a really good clip about this international project (and a much better explanation about the mathematics behind the hyperbolic plane than I can give you!) go to this TED talk.

Come and say hello at Kraftbomb today, I have a fresh batch of Tuty Fruity Choc Chip Cupcake Pincushions available today.  It might be the last for a wee while as baby is due in a month, I will have some new listings up on Felt.co.nz while I’m away from the markets if you need a special present.

Kraftbomb is at the Grey Lynn Community Centre, main hall – 510 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland, from 11am til 2pm.

So baby is due in about six weeks and I’ve been winding down somewhat in anticipation of the madness to come, unfortunately I have also been neglecting my blog.  I have also been frantically making as much as I can while I can, with a good pile of sea horses cut ready to sew and a batch of cupcakes ready to assemble, I am wondering just how much I will be able to get done!

This Saturday will probably be my last Crafternoon Tea for a month or so, so come along and say hello, the market is on from 10am-3pm at the Trinity Methodist Church, on the corner of Sandringham and New North Roads in Kingsland.  As usual there will be lots of lovely crafty goodies to get your hands on.

I will also be at  Kraftbomb in Grey Lynn the following weekend as well, so it’s to market, to market!

Aside from all the craft market goodness I am putting together some crochet pieces for an exhibition opening at Artstation in July this year.  Entitled Desire Lines I will write up more details over the next week…  all very exciting!

Come and check out some of my new goodies this Saturday at Crafternoon Tea in Kingsland, including beautiful seahorses and new needle wallets as well loads of other handmade goodies…

Saturday 20th of February 2010, from 10am-3pm at the Trinity Methodist Church – which is on the corner of Sandringham and New North Roads in Crafty Kingsland.

How cute is this flyer??

Crafternoon Tea is coming up again so put it in your dairies and get yourself along…

Saturday 16th January 2010, from 10am-3pm at the Holy Trinity Church, cnr. of Sandringham and New North Roads in Kingsland.

Need some last minute pressies for xmas?  Look for some cool handmade goodies at Kraftbomb this weekend!

Come and see me at Kraftbomb this Sunday, usual time and place…

Sunday 20th November, 2009
11am-2pm

Grey Lynn Community Centre
Main Hall – 510 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland.

Crafternoon tea was fun, check out my new Witchy Poo Stitchy Poo pincushions!

…And the fabulous new strawberry softies.

Great selection of needle wallets, perfect for storing your most used pins!

And of course, the delicious cup cake pincushions, with some tasty new flavours.

Next Saturday 12th December is the Christmas Crafternoon-Tea.  The market is open from 10am-3pm at the Mt Eden Normal Primary School Hall, Valley Road, Mt Eden.

This is the first time Mermaid’s Purse will have a table and it’s going to be exciting and a busy day, so come and check it out!

We all went along to the New Zealand Carnivorous Plant Society annual show last weekend and it was cool.  Rob took a few photos of the display plants and I took home the deadly sundew above, it is a Drosera binata, it is a native, and is so beautiful.

I was really keen to see some native carnivorous plants, and to bring one home was great!  They had some healthy pitcher plants, and other sundews and of course impressive venus fly traps, plenty up for sale and the growers had so much knowledge to share.  I will be at the next one for sure.

So elegant!