The needle and the homage done

January 2, 2014 3:20 PM

Artist Jo Hamilton makes weird and fun portraits with yarn.
posted by Blazecock Pileon (12 comments total)

Some crocheting may be NSFW.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 3:21 PM on January 2, 2014

Favorite added for the title alone.
posted by mosk at 3:24 PM on January 2, 2014 [6 favorites]

mosk: "Favorite added for the title alone."

This.
posted by chavenet at 3:49 PM on January 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

Some crotcheting may be NSFW, too.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:52 PM on January 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

I see the fun, but not the weird (reminds me that it was my mother's medium of choice when she did her colossal surrealist wall hangings when I was a tot). Kinky at times, but it reminds an awful lot of my junior high social studies textbooks with the not-so-subtle After School Special ideology. I guess some of us were having some pretty interesting fantasies about the people drawn in those textbooks!

Thanks for the nifty link -- it was charming...
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 4:10 PM on January 2, 2014

Of course, you can also turn to The Knitting Needle and the Damage Done, a blog by Metafilter's own Orange Swan.

Plenty of fibrous weirdness in there also!
posted by Danf at 4:16 PM on January 2, 2014 [3 favorites]

Hey, hey, my, my
Rolls of yarn we'll never dye
It's better to hook loops with one stich live
Hey, hey, my, my
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:36 PM on January 2, 2014 [2 favorites]

Misread the description as "makes portraits with yam". I would like to see that also, but this is still cool.
posted by floomp at 4:36 PM on January 2, 2014

There's colors in the stitch
Red, white and blue
People becomin' something kitsch
Because Jo found her muse

Keep unravelin' in the free world (x4)
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:43 PM on January 2, 2014 [2 favorites]

I wanna live with a knit and a purl
I could be happy the rest of my life
With a knit and a purl
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:46 PM on January 2, 2014 [4 favorites]

Todd's Pieces also does this sort of thing.
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:14 PM on January 2, 2014

Here's a pattern and a strand
Is this the piece that you had planned?
Can I work it for a while?
Can I hook its deep, deep pile?
Done enough now to block your frame
When so many help you, is it the same?
It's the crafter in you
That makes you want to
Take that skein
posted by mosk at 8:02 PM on January 2, 2014 [2 favorites]