The stitching of Squidius Knittius
The humble Stitched Squid (squidius knittius). This tiny tentacled terror appeared on my knitting needles one lazy Sunday and introduced himself by immediately challenging me to a wrestling match. How...
View ArticleMeet Plarchie: the giant plastic knitted squid
The arrival of Plarchie, the 8-metre giant knitted squid made entirely from plastic bags, came as something of a shock to me. One minute I was wandering the echoey rooms of London’s Natural History...
View ArticleNew York Squids in the City: Tentacles at the Top of the Rock
Noo Yoik. A city of late-night hotdogs, steaming manhole covers and skyscrapers that go on forever. I arrived in the city that appears to not know what sleep is not too long ago. Little did I know I...
View ArticleNew York Squids in the City: Statue of Squiddity
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Liberty Island’s Statue of Liberty Construction Tour. It sure took a lot of people to put the big lady with the light together. Now if you step this way you’ll see...
View ArticleNew York Squids in the city: Mollusc at the Museum
One squid. One city museum. One mission. New York City’s American Museum of Natural History boasted more than 32 million species and artefacts in its hallowed halls. That’s a whole lot of beasts, birds...
View ArticleWhite Paper Three: Squid’s Eye View
It might not seem as tough as building skyscrapers, gutting fish or working in a coal mine but being dropped into the middle of a strange city to make original art every day was quite a scary thing....
View ArticleLaunching the Stitch London book
Woo hoo! My first proper book by me, rather than by Deadly Knitshade (that Deadly Knitshade always gets the kudos). I buried myself in yarn and words at the end of last year to conjure up my very first...
View ArticleKnits on Titchmarsh (or Plarchie meets Daytime TV)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show on October 6th was all about knitting. Hence calling on the so-called 'Banksies of knitting' (according to Alan's pre-amble) myself and the good Perri Lewis. And they didn't...
View ArticlePlarchie the Knitted Squid to Party with China Miéville
It was only a matter of time before it happened: China Miéville, world famous fantasy fiction writer with a soft spot for giant squid, and Plarchie, the most infamous crafty Kraken ever knitted, in the...
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