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Call that a knife?5 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 1 week ago: Scene from Crocodile Dundee.  Hoges (alias Mick Dundee) is walking along New York street with Linda … more →

Tags: Art and Exhibitions, Philosophy and Culture, Big West Festival, Crocodile Dundee, Dave Cole, knitting big things, The Knitting Machine

Laser Guided Scissors

swiff88 wrote 1 week ago: Laser helps you get straight cuts in paper and fabric Okay, so we’re not quite at the point in … more →

Tags: home/office, Scissors, Läser, Gift, photos

My personal general-purpose eye: Quotes from October10 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 4 weeks ago: In October, as well as South, I read a stimulating article in the London Review of Books by Bridget … more →

Tags: Art and Exhibitions, Literature, Philosophy and Culture, Quotes of the Month, abstract art, andy warhol, Bridget Riley, Kandinsky, Mondrian

House of old money #12 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 1 month ago: I live in a posh suburb of Melbourne.  An “old money” suburb, at least as “old mon … more →

Tags: Art and Exhibitions, Philosophy and Culture, 1960s architecture, Architecture, Le Corbusier, Melbourne, old money, Urban Planning

Getting Ready for the Knitting and Stitching Show1 comment

Janet wrote 1 month ago: This is a busy week as we get ready for the Knitting & Stitching Show.  Setting up day is Wednes … more →

Tags: knitting, Spinning, Ireland, Stash projects, fibre, yarn shops, Handcrafts

Being photogenic: where does it come from?2 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 2 months ago: Ever noticed how some things always photograph well? How it’s impossible to take a bad photo o … more →

Tags: Socks, opal, self patterning yarn, Sock Knitting, Photogenic

Antidote to drivel

solidgoldcreativity wrote 3 months ago: One of the hazards of reading on the web is wading through the drivel, especially when the subject i … more →

Tags: on writing, Literature, Nabokov sightings, Vladimir Nabokov, Poshlost, writing, signs and symbols, Web Writing, Sentimentality

On not fondling one's moustaches2 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 3 months ago: I didn’t always knit socks.  I used to knit important things like jumpers and, even, pièce de résist … more →

Tags: knitting, Socks, jo sharp, DK Cotton, Sock Knitting, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Clive Robertson

Having my own summit6 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 3 months ago: Somewhere there’s a Sock Summit going on and I’m not there. It’s in Portland, Oreg … more →

Tags: knitting, Socks, Yarn Harlot, sock summit, Regia, Noro, Roebuck quilt

Kate of the jungle + Guest editor

solidgoldcreativity wrote 4 months ago: Here for your delectation is the cover of my latest book purchase, Knitwear in Fashion by Sandy Blac … more →

Tags: Dandyism, knitting, missoni, Kate Moss, Knitwear in Fashion, sandy black, knitwear

Stocktake

solidgoldcreativity wrote 4 months ago: It’s coming up to its first anniversary, this blog.  And I find myself doing what I’ve seen many oth … more →

Tags: on writing, Philosophy and Culture, Creativity, Derrida, Heidegger, Craft, Blogging, sous erasure, Craftsmanship

Holy Tatting2 comments

missgarber wrote 4 months ago: Yes, I am starting to delve into the wide world of tatting (the lacework that is commonly associated … more →

Back on air + man magnet2 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 4 months ago: Transmission has resumed.  I’m back knitting socks after months off air, and it’s due to these two g … more →

Tags: knitting, Socks, opal, self patterning yarn

The consulting way1 comment

solidgoldcreativity wrote 4 months ago: Two things occurred recently that got me thinking again about the issues raised in Matthew B. Crawfo … more →

Tags: Philosophy and Culture, Matthew B. Crawford, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Pirsig, Consulting, bus services review, the Monthly, robert manne, McKinsey

The Anti-craft

solidgoldcreativity wrote 5 months ago: Below is an article I recently had published in ArtsHub.  ***** Recently, The Age published an artic … more →

Tags: Craft, Richard Sennett, The Craftsman, Making, craft practice

Coda on happiness3 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 5 months ago: The book I discussed two weeks ago – Matthew B. Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into … more →

Tags: Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of W, Francis Fukuyama, Stanley Fish, Robert Pirsig

Bunfight at the Melbourne Design Market

solidgoldcreativity wrote 5 months ago: To the Melbourne Design Market yesterday, held in the car park of Federation Square.  What a bunfigh … more →

Tags: Art and Exhibitions, sonia rykiel, Melbourne Design Market, Marc Pascal, nicola cerrini, Kim Simon, Fibre Red, Beverley Armstrong, Luna Gallery

I Have Not Been Idle3 comments

Janet wrote 6 months ago:   I have not been blogging very much lately but I have not been idle.    Remember the Baby Surprises … more →

Tags: gardening, Ireland, knitting, Socks, Spinning, weaving

Happiness is a broken motorcycle2 comments

solidgoldcreativity wrote 6 months ago: I often wonder how it is that novels — the books I expect to tell me about life and what it is … more →

Tags: Slate, matthew crawford, Work, Michael Agger, contemporary work, Skipton, Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of W


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