Intern’s Corner: Cover It with Crochet, Escama-style

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Intern’s Corner: Cover It with Crochet, Escama-style

CRAFT: Intern's Corner
Every other week, CRAFT’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Craft: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next.
By Meara O’Reilly, projects intern
Ever since I found out about Brazilian craft cooperative Escama (featured in CRAFT Volume 03, “Pull-Tab Crochet”) and saw some of their work at Maker Faire a couple of years ago, I’ve been on a thread-crocheting kick. I just love the way that the process involves a sort of functional, enterprising spirit (what can I cobble together and how do I invent the stitches to do it?) as well as a really interesting aesthetic.
Once I learned the basic stitches and figured out how to wrap them around just about any object, I was off!
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Apart from making this pull-tab wallet for the CRAFT Archive and a few demonstration flowers from the article, I started covering everything I could think of: hoop earings, bracelets, and yup, recycled bra under-wire!
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I’m still trying to figure out the best way to secure the ends of my crochet (I’ve so far used beads and glue on the end of each wire to keep the stitches on) but I love the structure of these bra-wire necklaces and I think somebody could make something really beautiful with the idea — baby mobiles or lampshades, anyone?

2 thoughts on “Intern’s Corner: Cover It with Crochet, Escama-style

  1. cavalaxis says:

    You might look to macramé techniques for securing your knots at either end.

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