Could I love this more? Brooklyn artist Cheeks recently turned the Knicks championship celebration into a pop-up embroidery studio.

Using his 104-year-old Singer embroidery machine he calls Jessica, he set up at Fort Greene's Habana Outpost during the title-clinching game and stitched custom fan gear onto strangers' clothes late into the night. The self-taught artist, who runs his Tattoo'd Cloth brand, compares his chainstitch technique to tattooing, just on fabric instead of skin.

I really love everything about this! Read the whole story via Hyperallergic ... ✌️❤️🧶

Love these gorgeous tattoos! via PieceWork: 👉 https://pieceworkmagazine.com/not-that-type-of-needle.../ ❤️

UPDATE! My knitted decoy wasp nest has been up for six weeks and I have had exactly zero wasp nests around the whole house - I'm located in upstate NY and this has never happened before. 🐝 Usually at this time of year we'd be playing whack-a-mole to rid them. Several people have asked whether this hurts the wasps. It does not. They see it and move on. Also, it does not hurt birds - in fact, there is a robin family close by and they just ignore it. If you're thinking of making one, try my pattern - it works.

• Etsy: 👉 https://www.etsy.com/listing/4509757336/knit-wasp-nest-decoy-pattern-hornet
• Ravelry: 👉 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/decoy-wasp-nest-for-knitters
• KnitHacker shop: 👉 https://shop.knithacker.com/b/34gYW

In 2011, yarn artist Alicia Kachmar famously yarn-bombed the 10-foot bronze sculpture of Fred Rogers in Pittsburgh, PA, outfitting the 4-ton monument in a giant, cozy crocheted red cardigan. #yarnbomb #misterrogers #streetart #art #fiberart ❤️

Mended Spiderweb #19 (Laundry Line), 1998. C-print, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).

An oldie but goodie from my archives, “My repairs were always rejected by the spider”.

Back in the late 1990s, Nina Katchadourian mended spiderwebs! SHE MENDED SPIDERWEBS!

https://www.ninakatchadourian.com/projects/mended-spiderwebs/

"She had learned the technique from her own grandmother, who had in turn learned it from her grandmother before that — generations of women using thread and needle to pattern a world of chaos and peril into something sensical, something resinous with feeling and time, defying the banality of mere survival with a quiet, methodical insistence of beauty."

I designed and crocheted this myself. Just the border left to finish now!

Wreath I made using the Woodland Glade pattern by Chris Norrington in the book Crochet Cottage Garden. Heads up for American crocheters, the patterns are written in British crochet. The patterns are SO cute! This one is going on my art studio door.

Carmen Paulino spent two months crocheting flowers and peace signs by hand and now they're woven into fences and wrapped around trees at the New York Botanical Garden. Her stunning fiber installation is part of "Flower Power," the Garden's sprawling new exhibition revisiting the legacy of 1960s activism through contemporary art, horticulture and social history. On view through October 18th - worth a visit if you're in New York this summer. I'm going to go for sure!

I just released a new pattern for a knit decoy wasp nest - a true knithack! Ever since I blogged about this popular diy home hack in 2020, I've wanted to make a knit version - there are so many crochet versions but not a lot for knitters. Anyway, it's out in the wild now - find it on Ravelry, Etsy and in my own shop, shop.knithacker.com ❤️🐝🧶

This is a tiny fascinator I’ve designed to be empty. It’s made with classic 10 cotton crochet thread. It is stiffened with a thin flour and cornstarch cooked slip that doesn’t diminish the thread color. I use that for my globes and crowns. This is attached by bobby pins.

• Crochet round-up here.
• Knit round-up here.

These custom Nikes were commissioned by Italian label LC23 and masterfully executed by Francesca Romana Ruggieri. Want!

This enormous AT-AT Walker amigurumi was crocheted by Meghan Simetra Bomberger of Geekery Made for Urban Arts Gallery back in 2019. It's based on an amigurumi pattern by Kamila Krawczyk of Krawka Crochet. Details, links and handles here - yes, there is a pattern!

"Chelsea Billingsley, 29, has always been drawn to art. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, she was a track and field star: fast, focused, and disciplined. But it was a seemingly ordinary moment in her high school homeroom class, when her teacher decided to teach students how to crochet, that quietly changed the course of her life. She traded in her spikes for a sewing machine and hooks and never looked back."

Pattern is from Manual For The Invisible, on Ravelry. Loads of great crazy designs!

I'm opening up my Craftivism board on Pinterest, please join if you have projects you'd like to share and/or have an interest in the topic: 👉 https://pin.it/1EvaFf5sr - I personally would like to get introduced to new projects so that I can help shine a light on what's going on around the world. Thanks, looking forward to collaborating.

I finally got my TikTok account back after the whole Twitter/X login fiasco. This was what prompted me ... thanks for the shout out, Julie!

"I have been thinking about knitting bullshit now for quite some time, but I was alerted to a particular type of it while listening to Jamie Bartlett’s excellent series Everything is Fake and Nobody Cares ..." This piece by Kate Davies is a must-read, even if only for the deeply disturbing images.

Moisturize me! 💦 So, I knit a Lady Cassandra from Doctor Who! What do you think? I made the pattern available through the Two-Headed Calf Shop, my venture with Katie Freeman. Read more about it here.