We all get our curiosities over what we can make with knitting. That’s part of creative obsession. Amiguri is an interestingaspect of knitting and crochet. You make little animals and other small figures or caricatures of people with yarn and a bit of stuffing. Then there are those who go way beyond and take yarn crafts into the realm of art. This one doesn’t really qualify as amiguri, but maybe on a higher realm.

At THIS LINK you will find a sculpture of a complete human skeleton made with knitting. Construction details are not available. Imagine getting the pattern for this! And then working on it in the subway or such.

The work  by Ben Cuevas is called “Transcending the Material” and was installed and exhibited at the Wassaic Project Summer Music and Arts Festival when he was in residency there.

I’ve written some about my frustrated experiences with trying to recycle yarn, but I ran across this idea for another way to give new life to old, ruined wool sweaters: full/felt the hell out of them and turn them into knitting baskets, basket liners or bags! If you have one or find one at the thrift store that you like but it doesn’t look like a good candidate for frogging to reuse the yarn, just reuse the whole thing. Throw it in a pillow case and put it through a hot, soapy wash and then cut and stitch to make your new item. I was going to knit a few such projects and full them myself but this is a great, time saving alternative, and it gives new life to a sweater someone will probably never buy or really want to wear if they do buy it. Less wool in the landfills?

Check out the inspiration for this idea.

To my readers and subscribers: I do enjoy your “patronage.” If you like my blog, please forward some links to my site to your knitting pals. Thanks!

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I would be remiss if Knit for Brains dot Net didn’t at least link to this article about how psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain.

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